Lancaster University

Lancaster University, officially The University of Lancaster, is a collegiate public research university in Lancaster, Lancashire, England. It was established in 1964 by royal charter as one of several new universities created in the 1960s. It began in the city centre at St Leonard's Gate and from 1967 moved to a purpose-built campus of 300 acres at Bailrigg, about four kilometres south of the city, where the buildings are arranged around a central walkway called the Spine. It is a residential collegiate university whose eight undergraduate colleges are named after places in the historic county of Lancashire, and the colleges are weakly autonomous.