Anglia Ruskin University was awarded university status in 1992. Today, with a student population of 31,000, we are one of the largest universities in the East of England and a large provider of part-time education. Our students are on courses leading to undergraduate and postgraduate degrees and a range of professional qualifications. In addition to being one of the most significant suppliers of nurses and teachers to the professions, we offer an ever-expanding range of new courses designed to meet the individual's needs and a knowledge-based economy's requirements. Our main campuses at Cambridge and Chelmsford attract students from the East of England and increase numbers from mainland Europe and from further afield. Also, our University has an extensive network of contacts with institutions throughout the world, delivering courses in countries as far removed as Malaysia and Trinidad.
Anglia Ruskin is an innovative global university with students from 185 countries coming to study with us.
Each year, we deliver a wide range of educational and commercial projects. Students, businesses, and partners benefit from our outstanding facilities: we have invested £100 million in the past five years and plan to invest a further £91 million over the next five years. With our facilities, activities, and events all open to the broader community, everyone benefits.
We are not only academically ambitious for ourselves but our students. We have been named one of the top 350 institutions globally and joint 39th in the UK, in the Times Higher Education's World University Rankings 2018, following similar success in 2017.
Additionally, 91.2% of International Students said they were happy with their life at Anglia Ruskin University. In 2017 Anglia Ruskin University participated in the International Student Barometer, which is administered by i-Graduate worldwide.
We are ranked in the top 20 universities for teaching excellence in The Times and The Sunday Times Good University Guide for 2017, with six subjects in the top 10 UK higher education institutions for teaching excellence: Philosophy, Sport Science, Criminology, Sociology, Electrical, and Electronic Engineering and Business Studies. As well as this, our Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) Silver award recognizes the quality of our courses and high levels of student satisfaction.
We are a place where collaboration, research, and scholarly activity informs everything we do. Each year, we help 2,000 businesses grow with interns, training, research, and collaborative programs. Many of our courses are recognized by the industry, and a large number are professionally accredited, making our students ready for the real world.
While our head is full of ambition, our feet are planted in the world around us. We pride ourselves on being as enterprising as we are innovative and nurture those qualities in our students.
Over the years, several colleges and institutes have become part of Anglia Ruskin. They include the Cambridgeshire College of Arts and Technology (CCAT) and the Essex Institute of Higher Education (formerly the Chelmer Institute – itself formed from the Mid-Essex Technical College and the Brentwood College of Education). At first, these colleges combined to become Anglia Polytechnic, and then Anglia Polytechnic University in 1992. We have been known as Anglia Ruskin University since 2005.
As well as Cambridge, we have campuses in Chelmsford, London, and Peterborough. Our Chelmsford campus was initially in the city center but moved to a new, purpose-built site in 1992. Today, you will find our striking, modern buildings nestled by the river in the city's University and Innovation Quarter. Meanwhile, our campus at Guild House, Peterborough, opened in 2011. It is a dedicated healthcare site where we train many of our region's nurses and healthcare professionals.
In 2015 we were pleased to introduce a new campus in the heart of London, where students study subjects including business, law, and finance at undergraduate and postgraduate level.
We invested over £100 million in our campuses in recent years. Cambridge benefitted from a major redevelopment in 2011, and in 2014 we completed work on our dedicated healthcare site on Young Street. It houses state-of-the-art clinical skills labs, including mock hospital wards. Young Street is also home to our specialist Music Therapy Centre. In 2018, we opened a brand new Science Centre and the Anglia Law School Law Clinic.
Meanwhile, in Chelmsford, we embarked upon an ambitious program of development. In 1995, Her Majesty The Queen opened the fittingly named Queen's building, home to the University Library. It's since been joined by (among others) our eye-catching Lord Ashcroft International Business School Sawyers Building with its brand new Super Lab, the Michael Salmon Building, which houses cutting-edge medical simulation suites, and The Med BIC, which offers labs, workshops, and office space to small businesses in the medical and advanced engineering sectors. The next significant development is our School of Medicine, due to open in September 2018, which will train the region's future doctors in a purpose-built space featuring state-of-the-art skills facilities and an anatomy suite.
As well as our four main campuses, we have several partner institutions in the UK and overseas, giving you the chance to study for an Anglia Ruskin qualification near home. The first partnerships were formed in the early 1990s.
Our International Office, set up in 1992, fosters further links and makes sure that our international students receive the support and information they need. Our early arts and education expertise has broadened, and today we offer courses in computing and technology, engineering, law, business, economics, life sciences, and more.
We'veWe has been a leader in the field of health and social care since 1992, when nursing training was transferred from local health authorities to Anglia Ruskin. As well as our three highly regarded nursing courses, we train midwives, operating department practitioners, and social workers. Of course, the arts and education are still important to us. We train early years professionals on our Chelmsford campus and at our partner college in Peterborough.
In the last decade, we forged ahead with our research work. We have research-active staff across the University and a growing reputation in this area. You will now find six high-profile research institutes here. Story Lab was initially known as the Culture of the Digital Economy Research Institute when it was formed in 2010. Today, it asks how – in our digital-by default era – people experience the world and their place in it and experiments with modern, multimodal storytelling approaches. In 2011, we established the Global Sustainability Institute. It focuses on climate change issues and sustainability and has quickly gained a reputation for its topical, high-impact research and reports. Next came the Veterans and Families Institute for Military Social Research in 2014, which is carrying out valuable research into the impact of military experience on veterans and their loved ones, and the Anglia Ruskin IT Research Institute, which enhances IT systems through intelligent modeling and visualization.
Our newest research institutes were set up in 2016 and 2017. The Policing Institute for the Eastern Region, formed in 2016, focuses on research, professional development, and knowledge exchange to improve policing practice in the East of England. Meanwhile, the Positive Ageing Research Institute is committed to addressing the growing challenges associated with aging populations. Alongside these institutes is a range of research groups dedicated to subjects as diverse as music therapy, eye diseases, children's book studies, and political history.
We have always been inclusive and actively encourage students from various academic and societal backgrounds to study with us. We measure our success by their success. Our research and innovation are drawing on the breadth of ARU strengths to develop ideas and solutions that can transform lives and communities and enrich our curriculum.
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