British universities

Most United Kingdom universities can be classified into 5 main categories,

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United Kingdom - Universities

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• Ancient universities - universities founded before the 19th century
• Red Brick universities - universities founded in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
• New Universities - two categories of institutions fall within this category:
• those created in the 1960s less often called Glass Plate universities, and
• those created in the 1990s often called Post-1992 universities, from polytechnics.
• The Open University, founded in 1968 is Britain's sole distance-learning only University.

The University of London and the University of Wales are unusual in that their colleges/constituent institutions are treated as universities in their own right.

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University of London - University of Wales

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Undergraduate applications to nearly all UK universities are managed by UCAS - the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service.

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Undergraduate - UCAS

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