De Montfort University

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De Montfort University


Established	1969 (City of Leicester Polytechnic), 1992 (university status)
Type	Public
Students	23,460^[1]
Undergraduates	18,990 ^[1]
Postgraduates	3,795 ^[1]
On-Campus residents	{{{residents}}}
Location	Leicester, England
Affiliations	Alliance of Non-Aligned Universities, Association of Commonwealth Universities
Website	http://www.dmu.ac.uk/

De Montfort University ("DMU") is one of two universities situated in the city of Leicester, England.

The university used also to have other campuses based in Bedford, Luton, Lincoln, Caythorpe and Milton Keynes.

The Milton Keynes campus was built in 1991 and was officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II in 1992, prior to DMU becoming a new university. The university merged with Bedford College of Higher Education and the Lincoln colleges in 1994 and with the Charles Frears College of Nursing and Midwifery, based in Leicester, in 1995. It transferred the responsibility for the former Lincolnshire College of Art and Design and the Lincolnshire College of Agriculture, based in Lincoln and Caythorpe, to the new University of Lincoln in 2002. The Kents Hill campus in Milton Keynes was closed in 2003, due to costs of maintaining such a small site. It is now used by the Open University. The last remaining campus other than Leicester was Bedford, which was merged with the University of Luton to become the University of Bedfordshire in 2006. Currently De Montfort University has 5 faculties, and they include the faculties of Art and Design, Business and Law, Computing Sciences and Engineering, Health and Life Sciences, and Humanities. The Institute Of Creative Technologies (IOCT) opened at DMU in 2006, and undertakes interdisciplinary research in emerging areas at the intersection of e-Science, the Digital Arts and Humanities.

1 Origins
2 Notable Alumni
3 References
4 External links
- 4.1 News links

[edit] Origins

De Montfort University grew out of the former City of Leicester Polytechnic, formed in 1969, which developed from Leicester College of Technology and Leicester College of Art. It was named after Simon de Montfort, who was Earl of Leicester in the 13th century. Around 1995, each new university had to establish a wholesome corporate identity. De Montfort sought this by a memorable TV and cinema advert that reputedly cost £0.5m featuring a killer whale chasing some seals on a beach. The tag line 'Reserve your Seat of Learning Here' was read by Angus Deayton, implying that students should avoid letting life 'chew them up' and improve their job prospects with a degree. It was stirring stuff and apparently had great success; De Montfort is one of the more successful of the former polytechnics^{[citation needed]}, and one of the few to have competed on University Challenge.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Notable Alumni

Charles Dance, Actor.
Dominic Davies, Counsellor and therapist.
Alun Evans, Journalist, Football Association of Wales CEO and senior lecturer.
JS Clayden, Singer for Pitchshifter/owner of PSI Records
MJ Hibbett, Singer-songwriter.
Eric Johnson, Journalist, TV presenter and radio reporter.
Nicola Pellow, Web browser designer.
Andrew John Reed, MP for Loughborough.
David Shrigley, Artist.
Ken Shuttleworth, Architect.
Angela Smith, MP for Sheffield Hillsborough.
Egbert von Mentzingen,Student of the Dipolomatic Academy of Vienna.
Geordan Murphy, Professional Rugby Union Player with Leicester Tigers and Ireland.
Ian Wagstaff, Footballer
Rehan Uddin, Film Director