The University of Derby

Derby University 

The University of Derby  or simply Derby College is a non-private university in the city of Derby, England. Derby university has it's own  history,if we look  back in it's history then it was established as   the Training  Institution for Schoolmistresses  known as  Derby Diocesan Institution in 1851 and achieved the label of university  in  the year 1992 as one of the new universities.

At undergraduate level, the university offers  about 300 study program-mes including  short courses, postgraduate degrees and  foundation degrees  that cover most academic sub-disciplines and disciplines.

The  union  after 1977 and  succeeding formation of one of it's  College with Higher Education, four other educational institutions  added  their  relevant  field-related talents. The college held its first graduation ceremony  in March 1981  along with formal academic gowns  and  caps being sign by the CNAA  with  only six degrees out of 156 courses .  In the previous year  the college's degrees were awarded in a ceremony  held at the  Nottingham  University.

England teacher training college a traditional Church known as  Matlock College of Education  at Rock side Hall  was   formed in 1946  joined  with Lonsdale in 1983 to make  the Derbyshire College of Higher Education because  the Matlock College was having financial difficulties due to which   funding for teacher training was going  down along with  school numbers dropping. In the year 1985, this   Matlock college was scaled down significantly and shut  in  the year 1986. In the year 1991,Matlock college  united with the Southern Derbyshire School of Occupational Therapy . The same thing happen to the Southern Derbyshire School of Radiography   in  the year 1992.


Around 22,000 students this  university is  a home in all areas of study  Currently.