Founded more than 70 years ago on the belief that we meet the demands of a new kind of society, economy and world, our principles resonate now more than ever.

Nestled in 600 acres of countryside in the heart of the UK, many of our students and staff live, study and work here. It’s a big campus but a small and cosmopolitan community. We operate on a human scale, providing people the space to think and plenty to do, with a vast array of clubs, societies, activities and volunteering opportunities. We successively rank at the top of student satisfaction surveys. This is because it’s more than green and lovely, it’s a place of research and academic excellence too.

Key facts:

Joint No. 1 in England for Student Satisfaction with Course (Guardian University League Table, 2019)

• Top 5 in the TEF: Gold Award (Times Higher ranking of Teaching Excellence Framework 2017 (broad-based universities))
  1st in the world for Green Setting and Campus Infrastructure and Top 20 for sustainability (UI Green Metric ranking, 2018)

It’s little wonder our students and alumni are as individual as the University itself: progressive and accomplished, clear about who they are and what they want to be, equipped to meet some of the big challenges the world today presents, for the good of society and enterprise. It’s the Keele difference.