University of Suffolk

Established: 2007

University Campus Suffolk (UCS) is an educational institution located in the English county of Suffolk. UCS is a collaboration between the University of Essex and the University of East Anglia which sponsor its formation and validate its degrees. UCS accepted its first students in September 2007. Until then Suffolk was one of only four counties in England which did not have a University campus.  UCS operates at six sites with its central hub in Ipswich. Other sites are centred on pre-existing Higher Education centres in Ipswich, Lowestoft,Bury St. Edmunds, and Great Yarmouth in Norfolk.  UCS operates two academic faculties and in 2014 had around 5,200 students. Some 30% of the student body are classed as mature students and 68% of UCS students are female.