Lancaster University

Lancaster University, officially The University of Lancaster, is a collegiate public research university in Lancaster, Lancashire, England. It was established by royal charter in 1964 as one of several new universities created in the 1960s, with Princess Alexandra of Kent as its first chancellor. It began in St Leonard's Gate in the city centre and from 1967 moved to a purpose-built campus on 300 acres at Bailrigg, about 4 km south of the city, where the buildings are arranged around a central walkway known as the Spine. It is a residential collegiate university whose eight undergraduate colleges are named after places in the historic county of Lancashire, and it is a member of the N8 Group of research universities.