Loughborough University

Loughborough University traces its roots to 1909, when a small Technical Institute was founded in the town centre, with a focus on skills and knowledge directly applicable in the wider world. Under its long-serving Principal, Dr Herbert Schofield, who led the college for 35 years, it grew rapidly, and on 19 April 1966 it received a Royal Charter as Loughborough University of Technology, the first British technical university. In 1996 it took its current name. Today Loughborough is a public research university with around 19,000 students from more than 130 countries, and more than 178,000 alumni in 169 countries. It is known for engineering, the sciences, business, design, sport and the social sciences, and its campus covers 440 acres in the Leicestershire town of Loughborough, with a second campus at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in London, opened in 2013. Loughborough is one of the UK’s leading universities for sport, with world-class facilities and a record of producing Olympians and elite athletes. It is also consistently rated among the UK’s best for student satisfaction, and its graduates are highly sought after by employers in engineering, technology, business and sport.