Lancaster University is a collegiate public research university in Lancaster, Lancashire, England.
The university was established by royal charter in 1964, one of several new universities created in the 1960s.
Lancaster is 132nd out of more than 1,000 universities in the QS World University Rankings 2022. Lancaster is ranked =122nd in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2022, up from 136th in 2021 making Lancaster 15th out of the 101 UK universities included in the table.
