Key details
Type of institution
University
Year established
1858
Total students
39,400
On campus accomodation
Available
About
Anglia Ruskin University (ARU) is in East Anglia, United Kingdom. Its origins are in the Cambridge School of Art, founded by William John Beamont in 1858. It became a university in 1992 and was renamed after John Ruskin in 2005. It is one of the “post-1992 universities”. Anglia Ruskin has 39,400 students worldwide with campuses in Cambridge, Chelmsford, Peterborough and London. It shares further campuses with the College of West Anglia in Kings Lynn, Wisbech and Cambridge and has partnerships with universities around the world including Berlin, Budapest, Trinidad, Singapore and Kuala Lumpur.
There are four faculties of study at the university: Faculty of Business and Law, Faculty of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences, Faculty of Health, Education, Medicine & Social Care and Faculty of Science & Engineering. The universitys Lord Ashcroft International Business School (LAIBS) in Cambridge and Chelmsford is one of the largest business schools in the East of England. In 2019, the School of Medicine was formally opened at its Chelmsford campus by Prince Edward, Duke of Kent. It was awarded Entrepreneurial University of the Year in the 2014 Times Higher Education Awards. It won the Duke of York Award for University Entrepreneurship at the Lloyds Bank National Business Awards 2016.
Placing within the top 350 institutions in the world (Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2019), the multicultural Anglia Ruskin University is home to students from more than 185 countries. globe icon Visit Website
Rankings
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Accreditations
logo of Privy Council
logo of Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD)
logo of Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM)
logo of Association of Chatered Certified Accountants (ACCA)

Campuses

Cambridge Campus - Anglia Ruskin University

East Road, Cambridge CB1 1PT, United Kingdom

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Chelmsford Campus - Anglia Ruskin University

Bishop Hall Lane, Chelmsford CM1 1SQ, United Kingdom

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Guild House, Peterborough Campus - Anglia Ruskin University

Oundle Road, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, PE2 9PW

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London Campus - Anglia Ruskin University

19 Charterhouse Street, Holborn, London EC1N 6RA, United Kingdom

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