List of universities in Yorkshire and the Humber


A list of universities in Yorkshire and the Humber, this includes the educational institutions primarily based in the Yorkshire and the Humber region of England, which have achieved the status of university, as approved by the Privy Council.
The principal public research universities of the region are the: University of Bradford, University of Huddersfield, University of Hull, University of Leeds, Leeds Beckett University, University of Sheffield, Sheffield Hallam University, and the University of York.
These institutions of run a range of courses at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. They are all state financed, except the private University of Law, and all have their undergraduate course admissions operated by UCAS.
The universities are all of different ages with the established age representing the time that each institution was granted its own university status. Many of the institutions have histories dating back many years before these dates as other types of institutions. For example, Sheffield Hallam University was previously Sheffield Polytechnic and York St John University was previously York St John University College and the College of Ripon and York St John.
Most of the universities are completely located in the towns and cities in the regions, the exception being the University of Huddersfield. It is located in the towns of Huddersfield and Barnsley in Yorkshire and the Humber and Oldham in the North West of England region. Additionally, Coventry University, West Midlands, opened a campus in Scarborough, North Yorkshire.
As well as universities there are a number of other educational institutions in Yorkshire and the Humber which offer degrees. These range from Leeds College of Music and Northern School of Contemporary Dance to a whole list of Further Education and Higher Education colleges based in towns and cities across the region.
In addition, the Open University has a regional office for Yorkshire in Leeds, though is a national distance learning institution with its headquarters in Milton Keynes.
Absent from the list is the University of Teesside which is located in the town of Middlesbrough. Although Middlesbrough is located in the historic county of the North Riding of Yorkshire and the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire, Middlesbrough actually forms part of the North East of England region and not the Yorkshire and the Humber region.
NameEstablishedLocationStudents Attending
University of Bradford1966Bradford13,600
University of Huddersfield1992Huddersfield, Barnsley and Oldham19,740
University of Hull1954Hull22,275
The University of Law1962Leeds
University of Leeds1904Leeds33,315
Leeds Beckett University1992Leeds39,310
Leeds Trinity University1966Leeds3,000
Leeds Arts University1846 Leeds1,320
University of Sheffield1905Sheffield25,700
Sheffield Hallam University1992Sheffield30,009
University of York1963York13,270
York St John University2006York6,435