The University of Sunderland is located in the north-east of England in the City of Sunderland. The University has approximately 15.000 students, including over 1.000 international students from about 70 countries.

The University is also one of the 31 British Universities providing the New Route PhD as an alternative to the traditional Ph.D., although Sunderland also provides the latter.

Contents

1 History 2 Current 3 Schools 4 Famous Persons related to the University 5 External links

History

The University’s roots can be tracked back to 1901, where it was established as a municipal training college. In 1969 it was re-established as a Polytechnic. In 1992 it was ‘upgraded’ to a University and recognised by The Guardian as England's best new university in 2001.

Current

Lord Puttnam of Queensgate has been the Chancellor since 1998. The Sunderland Empire is the regular venue for the graduation ceremonies, although they were held at the Stadium of Light in 2004 while the theatre was closed for refurbishment.

There are currently two main campuses: Chester Road and St. Peter's, the latter opening during the 90's on the northbank of the River Wear. The Media Centre, housing television and radio production facilities along with a small local base for Tyne Tees Television, opened in 2003 at St. Peter's.

Schools

The University is organised into six Schools:

• Arts, Design, Media and Culture
• Computing and Technology
• Education and Lifelong Learning
• Health, Natural and Social Sciences
• Business (including Psychology and Law)
• Graduate Research School

Famous Persons related to the University

• Lord Puttnam (Chancellor)
• Ridley Scott
• Kate Adie (Honorary Professor in Journalism)
• Dave Stewart
• Victoria Wood
• Steve Cram

External links

• University of Sunderland website (http://www.sunderland.ac.uk)
• School of Arts, Design, Media and Culture (http://my.sunderland.ac.uk/web/schools/adm/ahome)
• School of Computing & Technology (http://osiris.sunderland.ac.uk)
• School of Education and Lifelong Learning (http://restal.sunderland.ac.uk:8080/education/ahome)
• School of Health, Natural and Social Sciences (http://restal.sunderland.ac.uk/sciences/)
• Graduate Research School (http://www.grs.sund.ac.uk/index.html)
• Sunderland Student Union (http://www.sunderlandsu.co.uk)
• New Route PhD (http://www.cet.sunderland.ac.uk/postgrad/html/new_route_phd.html)
• The International Education Site - University of Sunderland (http://www.intstudy.com/script/univ/sunder.htm)