BPP University
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Former names
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BPP University College of Professional Studies (2010) BPP College of Professional Studies (2005) BPP Law School (1992) |
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| Motto | University for the Professions |
| Type | Private |
| Established | 1992 |
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Parent institution
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BPP Holdings |
| President | Baroness Cohen of Pimlico |
| CEO & Vice Chancellor | Carl Lygo |
| Students | 9,000 |
| Location | Abingdon, Birmingham, Bristol, Cambridge, Leeds, Liverpool, London and Manchester, United Kingdom |
| Website | bpp.com/bpp-university |
BPP University is a private university specialising in law, business, finance, accountancy, banking, chiropractic, dentistry, nursing, psychology and healthcare. BPP University has sites in several UK city centre locations, particularly in London. Since 2009 it has been owned and run by BPP Holdings, part of the US-based for-profit education company Apollo Group. The Apollo Group was taken over by a private equity consortium in February 2017, triggering a review of BPP University's university status and degree awarding powers.
The university is a UK degree-awarding body with four schools: BPP University Business School, BPP University Law School, BPP University School of Health and BPP University School of Foundation and English Language Studies.
The university was awarded the 2010 Education Investor award for "Post-16 Education Provider of the Year" and Education Investor magazine's "Higher/Professional Education Provider of the Year 2013" award in November.
BPP was founded by Alan Brierley, Richard Price and Charles Prior in 1976 as Brierley Price Prior to provide exam training to accountancy students. In 1992 BPP Law School was founded and in 2005 joined forces with the newly formed BPP Business School under the name BPP College. BPP University was founded by Carl Lygo (who would become the founding Vice-Chancellor), Amanda Blackmore (the first Deputy Vice Chancellor), Peter Crisp (Dean of the Law School) and Chris Maguire (Dean of Academic Affairs).
In 2007 BPP College obtained degree-awarding powers, the first publicly owned private company in the UK to do so, based on examination by the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (QAA). In June 2009 BPP Holdings, the holding company that owned the college, was bought for £303.5M by Apollo Global. In July 2010, BPP College was granted university college status and the name became BPP University College.
In August 2013 BPP University College was awarded university status and changed its name to BPP University. On August 29 2015, BPP University partnered up with Roots IVY University College, a for-profit Pakistan education group, to provide undergraduate BPP law degree's to students enrolled at Roots campus in Pakistan.
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