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University Of Kent

The UK’s European university. With 17,000 students from over 140 countries worldwide and more than 2,000 members of staff, Kent is an exciting and diverse organisation with campuses at Canterbury, Medway and Brussels.

Over 80% of our staff work in departments where the research is rated as internationally or nationally excellent. Kent staff include research leaders who are renowned for their innovative thinking in areas such as social policy, drama, statistics and operational research, biosciences, English, conservation and law.

Well-known staff include Professor Peter Taylor- Gooby (Social Policy, leader of the European Social Contexts and Response to Risk network), Professor Frank Furedi (Sociology), Professor Alan Colchester (Neurosciences and Medical Image Computing), Professor Ian Bruce (Nanobiotechnology), and Professor Abdulrazak Gurnah (Postcolonial Studies, and a Booker shortlisted novelist).

• The University of Kent was granted its Royal Charter in 1965 and the first students arrived in the October of that year.
• The main campus in Canterbury covers 300 acres just over a mile from Canterbury's city centre.
• The Medway campus was founded in 2000 in conjunction with Mid-Kent College. It was originally based at Horsted and the Bridge Wardens' College, Chatham. In September 2005, the University moved from its Horsted premises to the newly developed Pembroke campus which it shares with the Universities of Greenwich, Canterbury Christ Church University, Mid-Kent College and University College for the Creative Arts.
• The Medway School of Pharmacy was opened in 2004 and is a joint school with the University of Greenwich on the Pembroke campus in Chatham.
• In addition, The Tonbridge centre offers part-time provision in west Kent and Brussels campus offers postgraduate law, politics and international relations degrees.
• The University has two associate colleges: Mid-Kent College and South Kent College, and two Partner Colleges: Canterbury College and West kent College.
• Visit the website at www.kent.ac.uk