University College Plymouth St Mark & St John
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| Motto | Abeunt studia in mores "out of studies comes character". |
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| Type | Independent Church of England voluntary |
| Established | 1923 (joint college) St John's (1840) St Marks (1841) |
| Vice-Chancellor | Rob Warner |
| Students | 2,365 (2015/16) |
| Undergraduates | 2,000 (2015/16) |
| Postgraduates | 360 (2015/16) |
| Location | Plymouth, United Kingdom |
| Website | marjon |
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Coordinates: 50°25′14″N 04°06′36″W / 50.42056°N 4.11000°W
The University of St Mark & St John, commonly referred to as Marjon is a university based on the northern edge of the city of Plymouth, England. It has a single campus, a long heritage and specialisms in creative arts, education, health sciences, speech and language therapy and sport.
Marjon is ranked best University in the South West for Education degree programmes and fourth best university in the UK for sports facilities.
Formerly called University College Plymouth St Mark & St John, the institution was awarded full university status in 2012. The Acting Vice-Chancellor of the university is Dr Karen Cook.
The university's history dates back to the foundation by the National Society (now National Society for Promoting Religious Education) of the constituent London colleges of St John's College in Battersea, London (1840) and St Mark's College in Chelsea, London (1841).
The St Mark's College was founded on the belief of Rev Derwent Coleridge, its first principal and son of the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge that its primary purpose was to widen the educational horizons of its students. St John's College was established by Sir James Kay-Shuttleworth, together with Edward Carleton Tufnell, to provide teacher training to meet the social and economic needs of 19th-century industrialisation and promoted the concept of education as self-realisation. Both colleges stressed the importance of applied education, the interface between academic study and broader experience and the role of an enlightened teaching profession in furthering social and economic development. The two colleges were among the first to open access to degree level study outside the established universities.
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