New Universities - Post-1992 Universities That Are Not Former Polytechnics

Post-1992 Universities That Are Not Former Polytechnics

• University of Abertay Dundee – formerly Dundee Institute of Technology
• University of the Arts London – formerly London Institute
• Bath Spa University – formerly Bath College of Higher Education
• University of Bedfordshire – formerly University of Luton, created by the merger of the University of Luton and De Montfort University's Bedford campus
• Bishop Grosseteste University College Lincoln – formerly Bishop Grosseteste College
• University of Bolton – formerly Bolton Institute of Higher Education
• Buckinghamshire New University – formerly Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College, and before that Buckinghamshire College of Higher Education, and earlier the High Wycombe College of Art and Technology
• Canterbury Christ Church University – formerly Christ Church College
• University of Chester – formerly Chester College of Higher Education
• University of Chichester – formerly Chichester Institute of Higher Education then University College Chichester
• Cranfield University - formerly College of Aeronautics formed 1946, later Cranfield Institute of Technology, currently all-postgraduate university (Silsoe and Shrivenham campuses were partly undergraduate till 2007)
• University of Cumbria – formed in January 2007 from the merger of St Martin's College, the Cumbria Institute of the Arts (CIA) and the Cumbrian campuses of the University of Central Lancashire
• University of Derby – formerly the Derbyshire College of Higher Education
• Edge Hill University – based in Ormskirk, Lancashire, formerly Edge Hill College
• University of Gloucestershire – formerly Cheltenham & Gloucester College of Higher Education
• Glyndŵr University - formerly the North East Wales Institute of Higher Education
• University of the Highlands and Islands
• Liverpool Hope University – formerly a fully accredited institution of the University of Liverpool, then Liverpool Hope University College
• Newman University College - formerly Newman College of Higher Education
• University of Wales, Newport – formerly Gwent College of Higher Education then University of Wales College, Newport
• University of Northampton – formerly Northampton Technical College, Nene College then University College Northampton
• Queen Margaret University – formerly Queen Margaret College then Queen Margaret University College
• The Robert Gordon University – based in Aberdeen, formerly Robert Gordon's Technical College then the Robert Gordon Institute of Technology
• Roehampton University – formerly Roehampton Institute, then University of Surrey Roehampton (as part of the federal University of Surrey)
• Southampton Solent University – formerly Southampton Institute of Higher Education
• Swansea Metropolitan University – formerly Swansea Institute of Higher Education
• University of Wales Institute, Cardiff - One of three universities in Cardiff
• University of the West of Scotland – formerly University of Paisley
• University of Winchester – formerly Winchester Diocesan Training School, renamed King Alfred's College then University College Winchester
• University of Worcester – formerly part of the University of Birmingham Department of Education then Worcester College of Higher Education
• York St John University – formerly the College of Ripon and York St John then York St John College

Both categories of university award academic degrees, having received university status when the Further and Higher Education Act 1992 came into effect or in the years thereafter, although some of the newest universities may not have the power to award research degrees - the UK Government having separated research degrees from university title criteria.