University of Buckingham

The University of Buckingham is a private, non-profit university in Buckingham, Buckinghamshire, England. Founded in 1976 as University College at Buckingham and granted a royal charter in 1983, it is widely regarded as the UK's first independent private university of the modern era. It is known for a teaching-focused model, small group sizes, and distinctive two-year undergraduate honours degrees alongside standard three- and four-year routes in areas such as law, business, humanities, computing, and medicine. The university operates a compact town-centre campus in historic Buckingham and attracts a strongly international student body from more than 100 countries. It emphasises employability, personalised academic support, and professional pathways, with schools including Business, Law, Humanities, Science and Engineering, and Medicine and Health Sciences. Its scale is intentionally small compared with large public universities, offering a boutique higher-education experience rather than a broad research-intensive profile.