About Us
KeeleUniversityis renowned for its exciting approach to higher education, beautiful campus, strong community spirit and excellent student life.
It was the first newUnited Kingdom university of the 20th century, established with degree giving powers in 1949 as the University College of North Staffordshire. University status, as theUniversity ofKeele, followed in 1962. We offer a special student experience. Most full-time students and many staff live on campus and there’s excellent entertainment every night of the week. Our graduates obtain some of the best academic and employment success rates in theUK.
The University provides high quality teaching across a wide range of academic and vocational subjects. Most of our students study for one of more than 500 Dual Honours programmes, where you can gain an honours degree level qualification in two subjects. We also have single honours degrees in American Studies, Environment and Sustainability, Geography, Law, Mathematics, Music Technology, Politics and in Medicine and other health-related subjects.
Keele’s main campus has the best of both worlds, from the beautiful estate with woods, lakes and parkland to a buzzing centre of shops, the Students’ Union, cafés and restaurants.
The campus is home to around 70% of our full-time students, as well as a large number of a staff and their families. There is a supermarket, bookshop, bank and newsagent on campus, as well as a health centre with doctors and a National Health Service dentist.
We have extensive sports fields, tennis courts and indoor sports facilities including a state-of-the-art Fitness Centre, climbing wall and courts for basketball, five-a-side football, badminton, squash, netball, korfball, karate and aerobics.
