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Ulster University (Irish: Ollscoil Uladh; [1] Ulster Scots: Ulstèr Universitie [7] or Ulstèr Varsitie), legally the University of Ulster, [8] is a multi-campus public research university located in Northern Ireland. It is often referred to informally and unofficially as Ulster, or by the abbreviation UU.
The campus was founded as the New University of Ulster in 1968 as Northern Ireland's second university, its establishment being inspired by the 1965 Lockwood Report. In 1969, Magee College was incorporated into the university, making Coleraine the primary campus of a multi-centre university. [5]
The New University of Ulster had been established near the town of Coleraine about 60 miles from Belfast in 1968. The university had difficulty recruiting students and only reached an enrolment of about 1600 by 1975. [2] However, it made some innovative appointments.
College of Agriculture, Food and Rural Enterprise has three campuses at Greenmount, Enniskillen and Loughry; Belfast Bible College; Edgehill Theological College, the training institution for the Methodist Church in Ireland
The Ulster University Derry~Londonderry campus, better known as Magee College, is one of the four campuses of Ulster University. It is located in Derry , Northern Ireland , and was opened in 1865 as a Presbyterian Christian arts and theological college .
Notable academics who have had positions at the university include: Antony Alcock, historian and Ulster Unionist politician; Walter Allen (1911–1995), Professor of English, novelist and literary critic; John Anderson, head of the School of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering and co-founder of HeartSine® Technologies Inc. [1]
Both of the 1980s universities are unusual: the University of Buckingham was Britain's first private university since the creation of the University Grants Committee after the First World War extended state funding to Oxford, Cambridge and Durham, while Ulster University was formed from the merger of a plate glass university with a polytechnic.
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