Newcastle University

Newcastle University functions as a worldwide top-tier public research university which operates its main campus in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. The university shows its dedication to social and environmental justice through its academic research work which establishes its high academic standards. The university's 50-acre city-center campus displays a combination of historic red-brick buildings and modern award-winning facilities which create an active multicultural academic environment with students and scholars from more than 110 nations. The university functions as a civic institution which has achieved worldwide recognition and proves its strength through high graduate employment rates and its position among the best UK universities and global institutions that create social and environmental sustainable solutions.

The institution's history is deeply rooted in the industrial and intellectual heritage of North East England, tracing its origins back to the establishment of the School of Medicine and Surgery in 1834. The College of Physical Science became Armstrong College in 1871 and then King’s College formed through the 1937 merger of these two separate institutions with the University of Durham. The creation of the independent University of Newcastle upon Tyne occurred through an Act of Parliament which established the university in 1963. The university has achieved various accomplishments since it gained independence including the awarding of an honorary degree to American civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1967 and the groundbreaking research it conducted in genetics and aging and sustainability.