Peterborough campus helps Anglia Ruskin University win award

Anglia Ruskin won University of the Year, with its Peterborough campus drawing special praise

A university with campuses in Cambridgeshire and Essex has beaten dozens of other institutions to win a national award.

Anglia Ruskin University, with bases in Chelmsford, Cambridge and Peterborough, has been named Times Higher Education University of the Year 2023.

Judges were particularly impressed by development of the Peterborough campus, which opened in 2022.

Its vice chancellor said winning the award was "tremendous recognition".

The award recognised the university's role as a hub for skills and innovation in multiple centres across the east of England.

Judges said: "Its achievements paint a picture of a university that knows what and who it is for, and is delivering - including taking calculated risks to support its region to the full".

Anglia Ruskin's vice chancellor Prof Roderick Watkins said its latest awards win rounded off "the perfect hat-trick"

Professor Roderick Watkins, the university's vice chancellor, said the award was "tremendous recognition from within the higher education sector that our work is making a real difference and stands out at a national level".

He added: "My colleagues work tirelessly to deliver first-class education, undertake impactful research, and introduce new initiatives for the benefit of our students and the communities we serve.

"I'm immensely proud of the difference they're making to our students' lives."

Anglia Ruskin was also named University of the Year at the UK Social Mobility Awards in October. It also received a gold award for the quality of its education in the national Teaching Excellence Framework in September.

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