Bath Spa University

Bath Spa University

Bath Spa University is a university based in, and around, Bath, England. The institution has previously been known as Bath College of Higher Education, and Bath Spa University College, and was upgraded to full university status in August 2005.

The institution can trace its roots back to the formation of the Bath Academy of Art in 1898. In 1947 Bath Teacher Training College leased the Newton Park campus. The present institution was formed in 1975 as Bath College of Higher Education by the merger of the Bath College of Education and Newton Park College of Education. In 1992, the college was granted its own degree-awarding powers and in 1999 adopted the name Bath Spa University College, and March 2005 the institution was granted university status, becoming Bath Spa University in August 2005. It has since been able to consistently rank amongst the top 100 universities in the UK, generally placing somewhere in the 80s.

Bath Spa University