University of Central Lancashire
The University of Central Lancashire (UCLan), officially renamed the University of Lancashire in 2025 after approval by the Office for Students in December 2024, is a public university based in Preston, Lancashire, England.中央兰开夏大学(University of Central Lancashire,简称 UCLan)是位于英格兰兰开夏郡普雷斯顿的一所公立大学,2024 年 12 月经英国学生事务办公室批准,2025 年正式更名为「兰开夏大学」。
It traces its origin to the Institution for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, founded in 1828, and it operates campuses in Preston, Burnley, Westlakes in Cumbria, London and Pyla in Cyprus.该校的源头是 1828 年创办的「知识传播学院」,目前在普雷斯顿、伯恩利、西坎布里亚郡西湖、伦敦以及塞浦路斯皮拉设有校区。
The 2024-2025 roll recorded 23,865 students, of whom 17,225 were undergraduates and 6,640 postgraduates, and the university is placed in the 1001-1200 band of the QS World University Rankings 2027.2024-2025 学年注册学生 23,865 人,其中本科生 17,225 人、研究生 6,640 人,该校列入 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名的 1001-1200 区间。
History
- The university opened its Burnley campus in 2009 as part of an 85 million pound development shared with Burnley College, and it acquired the Grade II listed Victoria Mill in 2018 before opening Sandygate Halls with 136 bed spaces in 2020.该校于 2009 年开放伯恩利校区,属与伯恩利学院合建的 8,500 万英镑开发项目的一部分;2018 年购入二级保护的维多利亚磨坊,2020 年又启用设有 136 个床位的桑迪盖特宿舍楼。
- All qualifications awarded under the former name remain fully recognised after the rebranding, and the university told schools, the Student Loans Company and the Home Office visa system that no action by applicants was required.更名后此前以旧名授予的所有学位仍被完整认可,学校并已告知各中学、学生贷款机构与内政部签证系统,申请人无需作任何操作。
- Vice-Chancellor Professor Graham Baldwin noted that the institution has changed its name six times in its history and that the same motto and ethos of opportunity for all has survived from the Institution for the Diffusion of Knowledge to the present day.校长格雷厄姆·鲍德温教授指出,该校在历史上已六次更名,而从「知识传播学院」至今,「为所有人提供机遇」的校训与理念始终未变。
- In 2007 the university adopted a new logo built around the abbreviation UCLan, and in September 2020 it launched a refreshed brand with a new colour scheme to present itself as a place where opportunity creates success.2007 年该校启用以「UCLan」缩写为核心的新校标,2020 年 9 月又推出全新品牌形象与配色方案,将自身定位为「机遇创造成功」之地。
- In 1828 Joseph Livesey's Temperance Society founded the Institution for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge in Preston, growing out of a pledge made by seven Preston working men whose names are recorded on a plaque in the university's library.1828 年,约瑟夫·利夫西的戒酒协会在普雷斯顿创办「知识传播学院」,该协会源自七名普雷斯顿工人的誓言,他们的姓名铭刻在校图书馆的一块铭牌上。
- The institution was housed in a classical revivalist building on Cannon Street and later expanded under the endowment of the Preston lawyer Edmund Robert Harris, who died in 1877, with houses in Regent Street bought and demolished to make way for the new buildings.该学院最初设在坎农街一座古典复兴式建筑内,后在当地律师埃德蒙·罗伯特·哈里斯(1877 年去世)的捐赠资助下扩建,摄政街的数栋房屋被收购拆除以腾出建设用地。
- After a donation from the trustees of Edmund Robert Harris in 1882 the institution was renamed the Harris Institute, becoming a regional centre for arts and sciences in north-west England.1882 年,在埃德蒙·罗伯特·哈里斯受托人捐赠后,该机构更名为「哈里斯研究所」,成为英格兰西北地区的艺术与科学中心。
- For Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee celebrations in 1897 the trustees commissioned the Victorian architect Henry Cheers to design the Victoria Jubilee Technical School on Corporation Street, whose foundation stone was laid in July 1895 and which was powered entirely by electricity.1897 年为庆祝维多利亚女王钻禧,该校受托人委托维多利亚时代建筑师亨利·切尔斯在市政街设计「维多利亚钻禧技术学校」,其奠基石于 1895 年 7 月铺设,整座建筑完全以电力驱动。
- That building, later known as the Harris Institute and now the Harris Building, aimed to give local young people technical education in all fields and was the most advanced educational building of its period in the town.这座后来被称为「哈里斯研究所」、如今即「哈里斯大楼」的建筑,旨在为当地青年提供全方位技术教育,是当时镇上最先进的教育建筑。
- The institute was reorganised and renamed the Harris Art College in 1932, and it became the Harris College in 1956 after a government reorganisation of technical education.1932 年该研究所经过改组并更名为「哈里斯艺术学院」,1956 年在政府技术教育重组后改称「哈里斯学院」。
- In 1973 the Harris College was designated by central government as a polytechnic and became Preston Polytechnic, and in 1984 it was renamed Lancashire Polytechnic.1973 年,哈里斯学院被中央政府指定为理工学院并成为「普雷斯顿理工学院」,1984 年更名为「兰开夏理工学院」。
- In 1992, after the government bestowed degree-awarding powers on the polytechnics, Lancashire Polytechnic became the University of Central Lancashire, granted its status by the Privy Council.1992 年,在政府向理工学院下放学位授予权后,兰开夏理工学院经枢密院批准成为中央兰开夏大学。
- Sir Francis Kennedy was the first chancellor of the university and was succeeded in 2001 by Sir Richard Evans, with the broadcaster Ranvir Singh becoming chancellor in 2016.弗朗西斯·肯尼迪爵士是该校首任校监,2001 年由理查德·埃文斯爵士接任,2016 年广播电视主持人拉维尔·辛格出任校监。
- The journalism division, now part of the School of Journalism and Media and among the oldest journalism schools in Britain, opened as part of the Harris College in 1962 and in 1991 became one of the first to award undergraduate journalism degrees.现为新闻与传媒学院一部分的新闻系是英国最古老的新闻院系之一,1962 年作为哈里斯学院的一部分开办,1991 年成为首批授予新闻学本科学位的院系之一。
- In 2012 the university joined BAE Systems and the universities of Liverpool, Salford, Lancaster and Manchester in the Gamma Programme, which develops autonomous systems for work that is dangerous, dirty or precise across aerospace, nuclear, automotive and petrochemical sectors.2012 年该校与 BAE 系统公司及利物浦、索尔福德、兰卡斯特和曼彻斯特各大学共同参与「伽马计划」,为航空、核电、汽车与石化行业中危险、脏污或需高精度的工作开发自主系统。
- In 2013 the School of Dentistry merged with the School of Postgraduate Medical and Dental Education to form the School of Medicine and Dentistry, extending clinical teaching in Preston.2013 年牙科学院与 研究生医学与牙科教育学院合并成立医学院与牙科学院,将临床教学延伸至普雷斯顿。
- The university sponsored the Wigan University Technical College, which opened in September 2013, and it opened its Cyprus branch campus at Pyla near Larnaca in October 2012 as the only British private university in Cyprus.该校正赞助维根大学技术学院(2013 年 9 月开学),并于 2012 年 10 月在塞浦路斯拉纳卡附近的皮拉开设分校,是塞浦路斯唯一的英国私立大学。
- In January 2024 the university applied to the Office for Students to change its name, but 90 per cent of respondents to the official consultation said the change would be confusing because of the existence of Lancaster University.2024 年 1 月该校向英国学生事务办公室申请更名,但官方咨询中 90% 的受访者认为更名会造成混淆,原因是存在兰卡斯特大学。
- The Office for Students nevertheless approved the change in December 2024, judging that it had the potential to be confusing for particular groups but that approval would protect institutional autonomy and encourage competition, and the new name took effect during 2025.英国学生事务办公室仍于 2024 年 12 月批准更名,认为其虽可能对部分群体造成混淆,但批准有助于保护院校自主权并促进竞争,新校名于 2025 年生效。
- Vice-Chancellor Professor Graham Baldwin said the change was intended to reflect the university's regional economic importance, and the university marked its forthcoming 200-year anniversary in 2028 with a history reaching back to 1828.校长格雷厄姆·鲍德温教授表示,更名旨在体现该校在区域经济中的重要性,学校将在 2028 年迎来建校 200 周年,其历史可追溯至 1828 年。
- The university is one of only a few British institutions to operate an overseas branch campus that is separately licensed in its host country, its Cyprus site being registered with the Cyprus Ministry of Education and Culture.该校是少数在海外设有并按所在国规定单独注册分校分支的英国机构之一,其塞浦路斯校区已在该国教育与文化部注册。
Academics
- The university runs a feature film module unique among British institutions, and student and alumni work includes The Collaborators of 2015, Audax of 2014, Wraith of 2012 and Blue December of 2011.该校设有英国高校中独一无二的剧情长片模块,学生与校友作品包括 2015 年《共谋者》、2014 年《奥达克斯》、2012 年《幽灵》与 2011 年《蓝色十二月》。
- Its biomedical science provision was rated first in the north-west of England for graduate prospects and second for student satisfaction in the Complete University Guide 2025.在《完全大学指南》2025 年中,该校生物医学专业在英格兰西北地区的毕业生前景一项排名第一、学生满意度一项排名第二。
- In the Complete University Guide 2026 the university's aeronautical and aerospace engineering teaching was placed 21st in the United Kingdom, well above the position of the institution as a whole.在《完全大学指南》2026 年中,该校的航空航天工程教学位列全英第 21 位,明显高于该校整体排名位次。
- The School of Veterinary Medicine trains students for a profession in which United Kingdom training capacity is limited, and the nursing and midwifery provision feeds graduates directly into the health service of the north-west.兽医学院为学生提供进入英国培养规模受限行业的训练,其护理与助产专业的毕业生则直接输送到英格兰西北地区的医疗卫生系统。
- The London campus on East India Dock Road opened in September 2021 with condensed timetables for adult learners in psychology, mental health, business, computing, health and social care and public health.伦敦校区位于东印度码头路,2021 年 9 月开学,以压缩式课表面向成人学习者,开设心理、精神健康、商科、计算机、健康与社会照护及公共卫生等专业。
- At Burnley teaching is concentrated in psychology, nursing, midwifery, digital media, health and social care, social work and youth work, while Westlakes is dedicated to the MBBS medicine degree and to nursing with rural clinical placements.伯恩利校区的教学集中于心理学、护理、助产、数字媒体、健康与社会照护、社会工作与青少年工作,西湖校区则专门开展 MBBS 医学学位与面向乡村临床实习的护理专业。
- The university is the nineteenth largest in the United Kingdom by student numbers and runs three campuses in the country, giving it a distributed rather than single-site model unusual for an institution of its size.该校按学生规模计是英国第十九大大学,在英国境内设有三处校区,这种多校区分布模式对这一体量的院校而言并不多见。
- The university is organised into ten schools: Arts and Media, Business, Engineering and Computing, Health, Social Work and Sport, Law and Policing, Nursing and Midwifery, Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences, Psychology and Humanities, Veterinary Medicine, together with the Centre for Collaborative Learning.学校由十个学院组成,包括艺术与媒体学院、商学院、工程与计算机学院、健康社会工作与体育学院、法律与警务学院、护理与助产学院、药学与生物医学科学学院、心理与人文学院、兽医学院,以及协同学习中心。
- The 2024-2025 roll was 23,865 students, made up of 17,225 undergraduates and 6,640 postgraduates, on a staff base of 98 professors, over 600 research-active staff and 763 research students.2024-2025 学年在校生 23,865 人,其中本科生 17,225 人、研究生 6,640 人;师资队伍包括 98 名教授、600 多名活跃于研究或知识转移的教职员与 763 名研究型学生。
- The university draws students and researchers from more than 100 countries and lists partnerships with around 125 international institutions, and it counts 246 honorary fellows.该校学生与研究人员来自 100 多个国家,并与约 125 家国际机构建立合作关系,拥有 246 名荣誉研究员。
- It offers more than 350 undergraduate programmes and nearly 200 postgraduate courses, with a portfolio weighted towards professional programmes linked to employer needs in the north-west of England.学校开设 350 多个本科专业与近 200 个研究生课程,专业设置明显偏向与英格兰西北地区雇主需求相衔接的应用型方向。
- The School of Law and Policing is among the largest such schools in the country, and the university's law offering was placed in the 301-400 band in the Times Higher Education global subject tables.法律与警务学院是全国同类学院中规模最大者之一,该校法律学科在《泰晤士高等教育》全球学科排名中列于 301-400 区间。
- The School of Engineering and Computing anchors the university's research profile, and in 2012 it began work with BAE Systems and four other north-west universities on autonomous systems under the Gamma Programme.工程与计算机学院是该校科研的支柱,2012 年起与 BAE 系统公司及西北地区另外四所大学在「伽马计划」框架下开展自主系统研究。
- The university is a member of MillionPlus, Universities UK and the Defence Universities Alliance, affiliations it uses to widen access and to bid for defence-related teaching contracts.学校是 MillionPlus、Universities UK 与国防大学联盟成员,利用这些联盟身份拓宽入学渠道并申领国防相关教学合同。
- Its Centre for Collaborative Learning coordinates academic provision across the schools, and it runs one of only two feature film modules in the United Kingdom, whose student work includes the 2015 film The Collaborators.协同学习中心统筹各学院的学术教学,学校还开设全英国仅有的两个剧情长片模块之一,学生作品包括 2015 年影片《共谋者》。
- More than 200,000 alumni are recorded worldwide, and the university reports that over 68 per cent of graduates leave with a first-class or 2:1 degree in the 2023 Office for Students data.该校在世界各地的校友超过 20 万人,并援引 2023 年英国学生事务办公室数据称,68% 以上的毕业生以一等或 2:1 学位毕业。
Campus
- The London teaching site sits on East India Dock Road in the London Docklands, and the Burnley campus occupies two town-centre sites at Princess Way and Victoria Mill with an added library at Sandygate Mill.伦敦教学点位于伦敦码头区的东印度码头路,伯恩利校区则占据公主道与维多利亚磨坊两处市中心校址,并在桑迪盖特磨坊设有图书馆。
- The Preston campus is an urban campus in the city centre, within walking distance of Preston railway station, and the university's Cyprus campus at Pyla lies on the southern coast of the island.普雷斯顿校区是市中心城市型校园,步行可达普雷斯顿火车站,学校在塞浦路斯皮拉的校区则位于该岛南岸。
- The J B Firth Building, opened in September 2011 at a cost of 12.5 million pounds and named after the forensic scientist James Brierly Firth, houses the School of Forensic and Applied Sciences with six laboratories.J·B·弗思大楼于 2011 年 9 月启用,耗资 1,250 万英镑,以法医学家詹姆斯·布里利·弗思命名,内设法医学与应用科学学院并设有六间实验室。
- The Engineering Innovation Centre opened in September 2019 at a reported cost of 35 million pounds and contains specialist laboratories, simulators, teaching and exhibition space.工程创新中心于 2019 年 9 月启用,据报道耗资 3,500 万英镑,内含专业实验室、模拟器以及教学与展览空间。
- The Student Centre and University Square opened in September 2021 at a combined cost of about 60 million pounds, built on the site of the former Adelphi roundabout and the demolished Fylde building, with space cleared on St Peter's Square.学生中心与大学广场于 2021 年 9 月启用,两项工程合计耗资约 6,000 万英镑,建在原阿德尔菲环岛与已拆除的法尔德楼旧址上,圣彼得广场一侧的场地亦经清理。
- Additional sites include the Burnley campus in east Lancashire at Victoria Mills and Princess Way for social work, nursing and psychology, and the Westlakes campus in west Cumbria for medicine and nursing with NHS placements in rural communities.其他校区包括东兰开夏的伯恩利校区(位于维多利亚磨坊与公主道,主要开设社会工作、护理与心理学),以及服务乡村社区 NHS 实习的西坎布里亚郡西湖校区(主要开展医学与护理教学)。
- The Cyprus campus, opened in October 2012 at a cost of 53 million euros, is the only British private university in Cyprus and the first campus there to provide a moot court for law students.塞浦路斯校区于 2012 年 10 月启用,耗资 5,300 万欧元,是塞浦路斯唯一的英国私立大学,也是当地首个为法学学生提供模拟法庭的校区。
- Historic fabric on the Preston site includes the Harris Building of 1895-1897 and Livesey House, named for the temperance reformer Joseph Livesey, and the earliest Cannon Street premises of the 1828 institution.普雷斯顿校区的历史建筑包括建于 1895 至 1897 年的哈里斯大楼与以禁酒活动家约瑟夫·利夫西命名的利夫西楼,以及 1828 年机构最初的坎农街旧址。
Reputation
- The university's research record includes work that contributed to the first photograph of a black hole and space-weather forecasting research recognised by a NASA-linked government agency in 2026.该校的科研工作包括为人类首张黑洞照片作出贡献的项目,其太空天气预报研究于 2026 年获得与美国国家航空航天局关联的政府机构认可。
- The university is placed in the 1001-1200 band of the QS World University Rankings 2027 and also in the 1001-1200 band of the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027.该校列入 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名的 1001-1200 区间,在 2027 年《泰晤士高等教育》世界大学排名中同样位列 1001-1200 区间。
- It was ranked 1500th in the U.S. News Best Global Universities list for 2026-2027 and did not appear in the main table of the Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities 2026.该校在《美国新闻与世界报道》2026-2027 年度全球最佳大学排名中列第 1500 位,且未进入 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名主榜。
- Within the United Kingdom the Complete University Guide 2027 placed it 90th of 130 institutions, while the Guardian University Guide put it 98th and the Times guide 93rd.在英国国内,《完全大学指南》2027 年将其列在 130 所院校中的第 90 位,《卫报》大学指南列第 98 位,《泰晤士》指南列第 93 位。
- The Center for World University Rankings 2024 placed it in the top 7 per cent of universities worldwide, and the university is the largest provider of graduate-level qualifications in the county of Lancashire.2024 年世界大学教育中心排名将其列入全球前 7% 院校之列,该校也是兰开夏郡内最大的研究生层次学历提供机构。
- It was named Edufuturists University of the Year in 2023 for its innovation record, and The Times named it the most affordable university in the UK for students in the same year.2023 年该校因创新表现被 Edfuturists 评为「年度大学」,同年《泰晤士》报将其评为全英学生生活成本最低的大学。
- OpenAlex records 23,316 research works and 946,783 citations attributable to the university, its largest subject concentrations being in health, education and the social sciences.OpenAlex 记录该校 23,316 篇研究作品与 946,783 次引用,其最大的学科集中领域为健康、教育与社会科学。
- Its best domestic measures are student satisfaction and academic services spend, both of which placed the university in the top fifteen per cent nationally in the Complete University Guide 2027.该校在国内榜单中最突出的指标是学生满意度与学术服务支出,两项在《完全大学指南》2027 年中均进入全国前 15%。
- The university works with the United Nations, the World Health Organization, the European Space Agency and NASA on research, including work that contributed to the first photograph of a black hole.该校与联合国、世界卫生组织、欧洲航天局与美国国家航空航天局开展合作研究,其中包括为人类首张黑洞照片作出贡献的工作。
Student life
- The Students' Union Golden Roses awards, held in their sixteenth year in 2025, recognise staff and student representatives across categories including lecturer of the year and student voice, with campus-specific honours for Burnley and Westlakes.学生会「金玫瑰」奖项于 2025 年迎来第十六届,评选教师与学生代表,涵盖「年度讲师」「学生之声」等类别,并为伯恩利与西湖校区设立专门奖项。
- Accommodation is guaranteed for new full-time students at Preston, and Sandygate Halls at Burnley, opened in 2020 and owned by Burnley Borough Council, provide 136 en-suite bedrooms arranged in 29 flats with shared kitchens.普雷斯顿校区为全日制新生提供住宿保障,伯恩利校区 2020 年启用的桑迪盖特宿舍由伯恩利区议会所有,设 136 间带卫浴的单人卧室,分布于 29 套公寓并共用厨房。
- The motto is the Latin Ex solo ad solem, translated as from the earth to the sun, and it is expressed today in the university's emphasis on widening access to higher education across Lancashire.校训为拉丁语「Ex solo ad solem」,意为「由地表到太阳」,这一箴言今天体现为该校强调在兰开夏郡各地扩大高等教育可及性的宗旨。
- The university's most famous staff member, the artist Lubaina Himid, won the 2017 Turner Prize while a professor of contemporary art at UCLan, the first Black woman to receive the award.该校最著名的教职人员之一是艺术家卢芭娜·希米德,她在校任当代艺术教授期间于 2017 年获透纳奖,成为首位获此奖的黑人女性。
- More than 35 sports clubs run under the name Team Lancashire, competing in British Universities and Colleges Sport, and students on the motor sports engineering course run the university's racing team.超过 35 个体育俱乐部以「Team Lancashire」名义运营,参加英国大学与学院体育赛事,机动车工程专业的学生还组建运营学校的赛车队。
- The Sir Tom Finney Sports Centre is an indoor facility at the heart of the Preston campus, and the Sports Arena two miles away, opened in 2000 by the Princess Royal at a cost of 12 million pounds, has eight-lane athletics and floodlit pitches.汤姆·芬尼爵士体育中心是普雷斯顿校区中心的室内设施,两英里外的体育竞技场由查尔斯王储妃殿下于 2000 年启用,耗资 1,200 万英镑,设八条跑道与泛光灯球场。
- The Students' Union venue 53 Degrees, a two-floor nightclub and live music space with rooms holding 1,100 and 350 for club nights, remains the social centre of student life even though it is no longer union-owned.学生会场馆「53 Degrees」是一处两层的夜店与现场音乐空间,俱乐部之夜两厅可容纳 1,100 人与 350 人,虽已不再归学生会所有,仍是学生生活的社交中心。
- Student media came in the form of The Pulse, which began as a newspaper called the Ribble Echo in 1985 and also ran a radio station, Frequency Radio, from 1999, until broadcasting stopped during the COVID-19 pandemic.学生媒体为「The Pulse」,其前身是 1985 年创刊的报纸《Ribble Echo》,并自 1999 年起运营名为「Frequency Radio」的电台,直至新冠疫情期间停播。
Notable people
- Joseph Livesey, the Preston Quaker whose temperance campaign founded the 1828 institution, is commemorated in the name of Livesey House on the Preston campus.普雷斯顿贵格会教徒约瑟夫·利夫西以禁酒运动创办了 1828 年的机构,普雷斯顿校区的利夫西楼即以其命名。
- Edmund Robert Harris, the Preston lawyer whose bequest funded the expansion of the institution and the Victoria Jubilee Technical School, gave it the name Harris Institute in 1882.普雷斯顿律师埃德蒙·罗伯特·哈里斯以遗产资助了机构扩建与维多利亚钻禧技术学校的兴建,1882 年该机构以他命名为哈里斯研究所。
- Henry Cheers was the Victorian and Edwardian architect who designed the Victoria Jubilee Technical School of 1895-1897, later the Harris Building, for the trustees of the institute.亨利·切尔斯是设计维多利亚钻禧技术学校(1895 至 1897 年,即后来的哈里斯大楼)的维多利亚与爱德华时代建筑师,受学院受托人委托设计。
- Sir Francis Kennedy was the university's first chancellor at its elevation to university status in 1992 and was followed in that office by Sir Richard Evans in 2001.弗朗西斯·肯尼迪爵士是该校 1992 年升格为大学时的首任校监,2001 年由理查德·埃文斯爵士继任。
- Lubaina Himid, professor of contemporary art at the university, won the Turner Prize in 2017 and was made an MBE in 2010, her work addressing identity and the history of the slave trade.该校当代艺术教授卢芭娜·希米德于 2017 年获透纳奖,2010 年获授大英帝国员佐勋章,其作品关注身份认同与奴隶贸易的历史。
- Andy Goldsworthy, the sculptor, attended the predecessor art college in Preston and is among the university's best known creative alumni.雕塑家安迪·戈兹沃斯曾在普雷斯顿的前身艺术学院就读,是该校最知名的创意类校友之一。
- Craig Pickering, the British sprinter who ran for Team GB at the Olympic Games, studied at the university as part of its sport and exercise science provision.代表英国队参加奥运会的英国短跑选手克雷格·皮克林曾在此就读,课程属该校体育与运动科学专业设置的一部分。
- Ranvir Singh, the BBC presenter, has been chancellor of the university since 2016, a role he took after serving as the institution's longest-serving chancellor, Sir Richard Evans.英国广播公司主持人拉维尔·辛格自 2016 年起担任该校校监,此职前任为该校任期最长的校监理查德·埃文斯爵士。
- Donald Stokes, the industrialist elevated to the House of Lords as a life peer, and Mike Sutton, the marketing theorist who originated the Market Reduction Approach, both studied at the university.获封终身贵族进入上议院的实业家唐纳德·斯托克斯,以及提出「市场细分-缩减-重定位」方法的营销理论家迈克·萨顿,均曾在该校就读。
- Bryan Talbot, the award-winning comic artist and writer, Gemma Hallett, the international rugby player and entrepreneur, and the journalist Reni Eddo-Lodge are among the university's alumni.获奖漫画家兼作家布赖恩·塔尔博特、国际橄榄球运动员与创业者杰玛·哈莱特,以及记者蕾妮·埃多-洛奇,都是该校校友。