Durham University (legally
the University of Durham) is a collegiate public research
university in Durham, England, founded by an Act of
Parliament in 1832 and incorporated by royal charter in 1837. It
was the first recognized university to open in England for more than 600 years,
after Oxford and Cambridge, and is thus, following standard
historical practice, the third-oldest university in England. As a
collegiate university, its main functions are divided between the academic
departments of the university and its 17 colleges. In general, the
departments perform research and provide teaching to students, while the
colleges are responsible for their domestic arrangements and welfare. The
university is a member of the Russell Group of British research universities and
is also affiliated with the regional N8 Research Partnership and
international university groups including the Matariki Network of
Universities and the Coimbra Group. The university estate includes
83 listed buildings, ranging from the 11th-century Durham Castle to
the 1960s brutalist students' union. The university also owns and
manages the Durham World Heritage Site in partnership with Durham
Cathedral. The university's ownership of the world heritage site includes Durham
Castle, Palace Green, and the surrounding buildings including the
historic Cosin's Library.
RANKINGS:-
The university has earned many rankings such as, ranked 78th
in the QS World University Ranking 2024, and 27 in the QS World University Ranking
2024. 7th in the Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2024, and 8th in the Complete University Guide 2024. Ranked 7th in
the Guardian University Guide 2024, got 6th rank by The Complete
University Guide 2023. In 12 subjects it ranked in the top 50 by QS World
University Ranking by Subjects 2023.
Governance:-
The
day-to-day running of the university is in the hands of the University
Executive Committee (UEC), which is also responsible for the development of policies and strategies. This is a joint subcommittee of Senate and Council and
consists of the Vice-Chancellor and Warden, the Deputy Vice-Chancellor and
Provost (Chief Academic Officer), the five pro-vice-chancellors
(Colleges and Student Experience; Education; Equality, Diversity and Inclusion;
Global; and Research, the executive deans of the four faculties, the chief
financial officer, the chief information officer, the university secretary,
and the directors of four support divisions (Estates and Facilities; Human
Resources and Organisational Development; Strategy Delivery; and Advancement,
Marketing and Communications). All heads of departments and colleges report
directly to one of the members of the UEC.
Campus
Durham University owns a 257-ha estate of which 251 ha is in Durham. This contains part of the Durham Castle and Cathedral UNESCO World Heritage Site and multiple other heritage assets including three ancient monuments (the Maiden Castle Iron Age promontory fort, Cosin's Library and Divinity House, four grade I listed buildings (including Kingsgate Bridge, the Exchequer Building on Palace Green, the gatehouse, keep, north range and west range of Durham Castle, and multiple listings covering surviving sections of the castle walls around the north of the castle and along the top of the river bank behind Hatfield College and St Cuthbert's Society) and 79 grade II or listed buildings. As of 2023, the estate in Durham includes 112 ha of woodland scrub (with 46 ha of woodland designated as Areas of High Landscape Value, including the 32.4 ha of Great High Wood, Hollingside Wood, and Blaid's Wood additionally designated as Ancient Semi-Natural Woodlands, Sites of Nature Conservation Importance and Sites of Ecological Value), 53 ha of farming and grazing land, and 27 ha of amenity grassland, alongside 51.4 ha of built environment. The estate also includes the Queen's Campus in Stockton-on-Tees. One of the major public attractions in Durham City is the 10-ha Botanic Gardens, established (on the current site) in 1970, with over 80,000 visitors annually. As of 2021, the university estate contains over 380 buildings with a floor area of 424,600 square meters (4,570,000 sq ft), including 189,400 square meters (2,039,000 sq ft) of residential area in 170 residential buildings (not including the independent St Chad's and St John's colleges, which are not owned by the university.
QUEEN’S CAMPUS
The colleges and academic departments were relocated to Durham City (or transferred to Newcastle University in the case of the School of Medicine, Pharmacy and Health) between 2017 and 2018, and the Queen's Campus became an International Study Centre (ISC), run by Study Group. This prepares non-EU foreign students to enter degree courses at the university, with the first students having started in September 2017. The ISC has taken over the former college accommodation on the campus, with the former Stephenson College buildings becoming Endeavour Court and the former John Snow College buildings becoming Infinity House. The ISC also continues to use the privately owned Rialto Court accommodation, which was previously used by the Queen's Campus. The university had said, as part of its 2017–2027 masterplan that it is continuing to explore other options for the use of the Queen's Campus and will be developing a separate masterplan for the campus.
LIBRARY:
In 2012 the university, together with the British
Library and Durham Cathedral, purchased Europe's oldest intact book,
the St Cuthbert Gospel, for the nation for £9 million. It is
displayed equally in London and Durham, being shown at the university's Palace
Green Library for the first time as part of the Lindisfarne Gospels Durham
exhibition in 2013. In addition to the central library system, each College
maintains its own library and reading rooms such as the Bettenson, Brewis,
Williams, and Fenton Libraries of St. Chad's College, which contain over 38,000
volumes. Many departments also maintain a library in addition to the subject collections
in the central and college libraries. Readers are also entitled to use the
theology library housed by Durham Cathedral in its cloister. In
February 2017, the university announced a £2 million investment to
establish a residential research library at Ushaw College. This would be
the first residential research library at a UK university and would offer
researchers access to the collections of Ushaw College and Durham
Cathedral as well as the university's special collections at the Palace
Green Library. It is planned that visiting researchers will also participate
in the public engagement program at Ushaw.
MUSEUM:
The university manages a number of museums. Built-in the 1960s, the Durham University Oriental Museum grew predominantly from the acquisitions of the university's former School of Oriental Studies. Initially housed across the university and used as a teaching collection, the size of the collection led to the building of the current museum to house the material. The collection to date contains over 30,000 objects from Asian art to antiquities, covering the Orient and Levant to the Far East and the Indian Sub-continent, with over a third of the collection relating to China. The national importance of the Chinese and Egyptian collections can be seen in the Designated Status from the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council achieved in 2008. The Durham University Museum of Archaeology moved to Palace Green in 2014, having previously been housed in the Old Fulling Mill on the banks of the Wear. The museum was opened in 1833, being the second university museum in England to allow admittance to the general public. The museum focuses on the heritage of North East England and includes national and international collections spanning the Prehistoric, Ancient Greek, Roman, Anglo-Saxon, Medieval, and post-medieval periods.
Faculty of Social Sciences & Health
· Department of
Anthropology
· Department of
Archaeology
· Combined Honours in
Social Sciences programme
· Durham Centre for
Academic Development
· School of Education
· Department of
Geography
· School of Government
and International Affairs
· Durham Law School
· Department of
Sociology
· Department of Sport and Exercise Sciences
Faculty of Arts and Humanities
· Department of Classics
& Ancient History
· Department of English
Studies
· Department of History
· Liberal Arts program
· School of Modern
Languages and Cultures
· Department of Music
· Department of
Philosophy
· Department of Theology
and Religion
Faculty of Science
· Natural Sciences
programme
· Department of
Biosciences
· Department of
Chemistry
· Department of Computer
Science
· Department of Earth
Sciences
· Department of Engineering
· Department of
Mathematical Sciences
· Department of Physics
· Department of
Psychology
Durham University Business School
· Department of
Accounting
· Department of
Economics
· Department of Finance
· Department of
Management and Marketing
There are some basic requirements that are to be fulfilled by international students to get admission to this university:
- Graduate Requirements:
- Application fees: 60 GBP (For Business SchoolMasters Program)
- 3 to 5-year bachelor's degree from a recognized university
- GPA or Aggregate: 60 to 70 % depending upon the university
- English Language Proficiency: TOEFL IBT - 102, IELTS - 7.0 bands overall
- LOR
- SOP
- Resume
- No application fees
- Undergraduate degree
- GPA or Aggregate 60 to 70% depends upon the university
- English Language Proficiency: TOEFL IBT- 102, IELTS - 7.0 bands overall
- LOR
- SOP
- Resume
- Interview
- No application fees
- Higher Secondary Exam Transcript
- GPA or Aggregate 85 to 95% depending upon the university
- English Language Proficiency: TOEFL IBT - 102, IELTS - 7.0 bands overall
- SOP
- Resume
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