From the swinging 60s to the forefront of cyber – Lancaster University clocked up 60 glorious years last September.


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60 Sparkling Years at Lancaster


From its birth in 1964 to its place today as a pioneer of global research and gold-standard teaching, Lancaster University has powered through the decades.


And, with each new decade of expansion and progress, the University has built and maintained a reputation as a proudly Northern university with a strong global footprint and sustainable ethos.


The founding Vice-Chancellor, Charles Carter, came into post on 1 April 1963, and the University


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accepted its first 330 students in October 1964 with only 13 professors, 32 additional members of teaching and research staff, 8 library staff and 14 administrators.


While the impressive new campus took shape on a 300-acre site some four kilometres south of the city centre, the first cohorts of students were taught in temporary facilities in St Leonard’s Gate, close to the heart of Lancaster. It was not until 1967 that operations moved to the University’s present location.


Its founding subjects were in the natural sciences, business subjects, and the humanities, including an emphasis on modern languages, while the second generation of subjects focused particularly on social sciences and technology.


Fast forward through six transformative decades and Lancaster University is now home to four faculties housing a full spectrum of academic departments and research centres, with more than 16,000 students and close to 4000 members of staff.


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