History

A Robert Gordon University has such diverse & deep roots that these are hard to pick any point eventually & proclaim 'this was a beginning'.

Within 1720 Robert Gordon (1668 - 1731) retired to Aberdeen. He got amassed the considerable fortune however he is believed to will have the 'stinting' retirement. In his demise Xi years late he willed his entire estate to build the residential school for educating immature boys. In the summertime of 1750 the ''Robert Gordon's Hospital'' was born. Inside 1881 this was converted into a day school to become referred to as Robert Gordon's College. Just about a equivalent period Mr John Gray offered to provide a school of science & art upon trouble that the Governors known as it ''Gray's School of Science & Art. & within 1903 a then Scotch Education Department intended the vocational courses act of the college as a Central Institution.

A title Robert Gordon's Institute of Technology, or even RGIT when it was popularly known, was adoptive within 1965 to reflect a continuing advancement in the level of the teaching function & the freshly role as a centre of excellence in the not university sector of higher education.

Inside 1991 the name changed once again, to The Robert Gordon Institute of Technology''. RGIT was one of a big Central Institutions around Scotland by using probably a greatest breadth course. Around 1992 RGIT was awarded university status and a number one Chancellor, Sir Robert Reid, was installed. It was an accomplishment that a local community celebrated by owning outstanding pride.

Robert Gordon's mercantile escapade founded a hard & remarkably modern belief that his investment inside the education of his town would equip the two by having the skills & noesis to strengthen their profits in Europe & farther afield.

In todays world, additional than 260 years fallowing his dying, a University which bears his title remains true to his spirit & enterprise. A city of Aberdeen is likewise page to the University of Aberdeen.

Statistics

There are roughly 9,000 students studying over 145 good-whale, a share-half-time & sandwich courses at undergrad, post-own experience & postgraduate levels. Additionally RGU is the top university in the UK for postgraduate employment. Within 2002 98.1% of RGU students were in employment or even farther survey sixer months fallowing graduation. (Source: HESA First Destination statistic 2002, published 2003)

Too when good-whale & the portiin-half-time on campus learn, a University will bring a complete range of distance learning facilities over a internet vithe its Virtual Campus, with ended 8000 students from either 113 countries researching on the net for a wide range of courses.

Structure

A academic activities of the University come divided into triplet faculties each with constitutional Schools or even cognate departments:

Faculty of Project & Technology Gray’s School of Art A Scott Sutherland School School of Computing School of Engineering

Faculty of Health & Social Care School of Applied Social Studies School of Health Sciences School of Life Sciences School of Nursing & Midwifery School of Pharmacy

Aberdeen Business School Individual Resources Management Hotel, Touristry & Retail Management Communications & Languages Reference Management Accounting & Finance Business & Management Marketing Economic science & Public Policy Law

Facilities

A Garthdee campus just outside a central city has seen outlay of all over £60 million within recent years sustaining ii recently buildings housing a Aberdeen Business School & the Faculty of Health & Social Care. a Garthdee campus is too a places of a freshly state-of-the-art Sports Centre imputable open within February 2005.

A Schoolhill campus, depending inside the city center, is housed in supplementary traditional surroundings, in a select few of the city’s celebrated granite buildings.

Mission & Vision
A University's Mission statement is, "To inspire and enable the transformation of individuals, economies and societies.", & a vision of the University is, "To be internationally recognised for excellence in professional education and applied research."