Anglia Ruskin University is a public university in the East of England, United Kingdom. It has about 35,000 students and campuses in Cambridge, Chelmsford and Peterborough. It also shares campuses with the College of West Anglia in King's Lynn, Wisbech and Cambridge.
The university was founded in 1858, when the art critic John Ruskin opened the Cambridge School of Art. The school became Anglia Polytechnic after it joined with the Cambridgeshire College of Arts and Technology and the Essex Institute of Higher Education. It became a university in 1992 and was renamed Anglia Ruskin University (after John Ruskin) in 2005.
The university has campuses in Cambridge, Chelmsford and Peterborough, University Centres in King's Lynn, Peterborough and Harlow, andcollaborative partnerships with institutions in a variety of locations throughout the world, including London, Berlin, Budapest, Athens, Basel,Kuala Lumpur, Singapore and Trinidad.
