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Derby Campus
University of Derby
Kedleston Road
Derby
DE22 1GB
T: +44 (0)1332 590500
Buxton Campus
University of Derby
1 Devonshire Road
Buxton
Derbyshire
SK17 6RY
T: +44 (0)1332 590500
Chesterfield Campus
University of Derby
St Helena
Sheffield Road
Chesterfield
S41 7LL
T: +44 (0)1246 210200
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Bridge Street
Derby
DE1 3LD
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T: +44 (0)1332 591167
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T: +44 (0)1332 594000
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The University of Derby (formerly Derby College of Art and Technology or simply Derby College) is a public university in the city of Derby, England. It traces its history back to the establishment of the Derby Diocesan Institution for the Training of Schoolmistresses in 1851 and gained university status in 1992 as one of the new universities.
The university provides over 300 study programmes at undergraduate level. Undergraduate programmes as well as short courses, foundation degrees and postgraduate degrees cover most academic disciplines and subdisciplines.
Currently the university is home to around 34,000 students in all areas of study.
Over the years, two dozen bodies have contributed to the university’s formation. The first of these was founded in 1851 as the Derby Diocesan Institution for the Training of Schoolmistresses. Albeit under different names so to reflect maturing objectives, the institution flourished as an individual entity for some 120 years before merging with another developing educational artery to help form what was then known as the Derby Lonsdale College of Higher Education, 1977.