University College Birmingham
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| Motto | Service Before Self |
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| Type | Public |
| Established | 1957 |
| Principal | Ray Linforth |
| Students | 5,025 HE (2015/16) |
| Undergraduates | 4,570 (2015/16) |
| Postgraduates | 455 (2015/16) |
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Other students
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10,335 FE |
| Location | Birmingham, United Kingdom |
| Website | http://www.ucb.ac.uk |
University College Birmingham, is a university in Birmingham, England. It was awarded full University status in 2012 along with Newman University.
The university is located in central Birmingham and offers both vocational and academic education at both undergraduate and postgraduate level. The university specialises in the areas of hospitality and the culinary arts, hairdressing and beauty, tourism, business enterprise, marketing, business management, accounting, finance, events management, sports management, sports medicine, sports therapy and Early Years education.
The university was founded as part of Birmingham's Municipal Technical School (predecessor of Aston University) in the 19th century, but became a separate College of Bakery, Catering, Domestic Science and Associated Studies (later Birmingham College of Food and Domestic Arts) under the control of Birmingham City Council in 1957. It moved to its present site in Summer Row from Brasshouse Passage in 1967, with the official opening in 1968. It was renamed Birmingham College of Food, Tourism and Creative Studies (BCFTCS) in the 1980s to reflect the breadth of courses it by then offered. Its name was changed again, to University College Birmingham (UCB), in 2007.
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