Our primary strategic goal is to establish Lancaster University as a global leader in higher education. We define global leadership as being a ‘go to’ university for research and teaching that transform lives, communities, practices and thinking across the globe.
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Lancaster is constantly developing partnerships across the world to ensure it delivers teaching that takes students to the frontiers of knowledge and produces graduates who can compete in a global job market.
In addition to numerous international research partnerships, Lancaster has four strategic overseas teaching partnerships offering validated Lancaster degrees in China, Germany, Ghana and Malaysia.
A joint institute with highly ranked partner Beijing Jiaotong University. Located in Weihai, Shandong province. Graduates receive a degree from both institutions and a joint academic transcript.
The first British university branch campus in Ghana allows students across Africa to access Lancaster's academic excellence in teaching and research on the African continent.
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Lancaster University's first campus in mainland Europe is in Leipzig, Germany. As part of its first phase of development, our Leipzig campus will offer four Lancaster accredited Bachelor of Science programmes taught by the University, and a University accredited foundation programme operated by our partners Navitas.
Sunway University and Lancaster University established an academic partnership in 2006. Under this institutional arrangement, students are able to study on a range of undergraduate degree schemes and graduate from both Sunway University and Lancaster University.
For students studying a Lancaster degree overseas there are a number of ways to study at our UK campus, such as our Global Summer Schools, our Study Abroad programme, transferring your degree to Lancaster or coming to study for a Postgraduate degree.
As a global university with teaching partnerships around the world, Lancaster is committed to providing high-quality transnational education. This is demonstrated through our participation in the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (QAA) QE-TNE Scheme.
The Scheme is a method for the quality evaluation and enhancement of UK transnational education. It is enhancement-led, informed by robust metrics, and has the student experience at its heart.
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Our researchers are collaborating across the world to find the answers to global questions affecting us all.
Home to 1,500+ academics and research staff, and close to 2,000 postgraduate research students, Lancaster University aims to develop a culture and environment that enables world-class research. Our diverse community of researchers transform lives and communities, changing practice and thinking across the globe. Discover what drives our researchers to connect globally, push disciplinary boundaries, take risks, ask the big questions and improve the world around them.
Students from over one hundred countries make up our diverse campus. Our community extends far beyond this though: through business partnerships, our alumni network and stakeholders in our regional communities. Lancaster is an open and welcoming community that values equality and diversity. Our promotion of global values ensures Lancaster is a welcoming environment for international students and staff.
Lancaster University is a community that reaches around the world. With students from over 100 countries and over half our staff coming from outside the UK there is every chance to make international connections. A great place to start exploring this is through one of the Students' Union's many international societies.
Lancaster has more than 148,000 alumni in over 180 countries worldwide. Read the stories of some of our most global alumni, connect with your local alumni co-ordinator and stay in touch.
Live and learn with people from different cultures to build connections, explore the world and discover yourself. Study abroad as part of your Lancaster degree, join in with international campus events and discover vacation travel. International students can visit Lancaster through study abroad or on our summer schools.
