University · Durham, United Kingdom
Durham University
Collegiate public research university in Durham, England, United Kingdom
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About
instance of inception founder named after Durham Cathedral · sourcing circumstances: possibly · object named as: Consequently, it was not until 1832 when Parliament, at the instigation of Archdeacon Charles Thorp and with the support of the Bishop of Durham, William van Mildert, passed "an Act to enable the Dean and Chapter of Durham Cathedral to appropriate part of the property of their church to the establishment of a University in connection therewith" that the university came into being. motto text Fundamenta eius super montibus sanctis (la) language used official color
Location and contact
country located in the administrative territorial entity headquarters location location street address University House, Old Evet, Durham, DH1 3HP postal code coordinate location historic county official website phone number +44-191-334-2000 · reason for deprecated rank: duplicate entry +44-1913342000
People and numbers
count of students employees rector chairperson
Rankings and recognition
ranking 89 · QS World University Rankings · 2025 Earlier figures (12) 78 · QS World University Rankings · 2024 92 · QS World University Rankings · 2023 82 · QS World University Rankings · 2022 86 · QS World University Rankings · 2021 78 · QS World University Rankings · 2020 74 · QS World University Rankings · 2019 78 · QS World University Rankings · 2018 74 · QS World University Rankings · 2017 61 · QS World University Rankings · 2016 92 · QS World University Rankings · 2015 90 · QS World University Rankings · 2014 92 · QS World University Rankings · 2012
Structure and memberships
child organization or unit has part(s) affiliation 4 more member of 11 more owner of occupant
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Wikimedia and technical details (10)
Commons category topic's main category category for alumni of educational institution described by source IPv6 routing prefix IPv4 routing prefix 193.60.176.0/20 193.60.196.0/23 193.60.192.0/22 129.234.0.0/16 Commons gallery archives at sRGB color hex triplet social media followers 60,084 · X (Twitter) numeric user ID: 277391629 · 5 February 2023 Earlier figures (3) 56,595 · X (Twitter) numeric user ID: 277391629 · 28 February 2022 51,769 · X (Twitter) numeric user ID: 277391629 · 2 January 2021 48,342 · X (Twitter) numeric user ID: 277391629 · 19 April 2020
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Art UK venue ID ARWU university ID Athenaeum museum ID Baidu Tieba name 杜伦大学 · number of works: 162,519 · 16 March 2023 BBC News topic ID BBC Things ID Bibliothèque nationale de France ID BIBSYS ID British Museum person or institution ID Canadiana Name Authority ID CiNii Research ID Crunchbase organization ID DfE URN Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID Facebook username FactGrid item ID FAST ID FES digital collections entity ID FOLDOC ID Freebase ID Gateway to Research organization ID GeoNames ID GND ID Google Arts & Culture partner ID Google Maps Customer ID Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID (2017) 3890462 · subject named as: ДАРЕМСКИЙ УНИВЕРСИТЕТ GRID ID Hill Museum & Manuscript Library ID IdRef ID Instagram username ISNI J9U entity ID Japan Search name ID Kalliope-Verbund (GND) ID KISTI ID Libraries Australia ID Library of Congress Authorities ID Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued) Museum Data Service museum ID Q458393 · subject has role: Service MusicBrainz place ID NACSIS-CAT author ID DA03795264 · subject named as: University of Durham National Library of Ireland ID National Library of Lithuania ID National Library of Poland MMS ID NL CR AUT ID NUKAT ID Open Funder Registry funder ID OpenAlex ID OpenDOAR ID openMLOL author ID QS World University ID Quora topic ID Reddit topic ID (obsolete) RERO ID (legacy) Ringgold ID ROR ID SNARC ID The Guardian topic ID Threads username Times Higher Education World University ID U-Multirank university ID UK Parliament thesaurus ID 29661 · subject named as: Durham University UK Provider Reference Number Union List of Artist Names ID Vatican Library VcBA ID VIAF cluster ID WhatDoTheyKnow organisation ID Wolfram Language entity code World Higher Education Database ID X (Twitter) username durham_uni · country: United Kingdom · has characteristic: verified account or profile · number of subscribers: 48,342 · X (Twitter) numeric user ID: 277391629 · 19 April 2020 Zhihu topic ID 19763198 · subject named as: Durham University Scilit organization ID Yale LUX ID
At a glance
Kind University · Public
Location Durham, United Kingdom
Founded 1832
Students 19,520 (2020)
Also known as University of Durham, Gallery of Durham University, Durham Univ.
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