University of Kent

The University of Kent (originally titled University of Kent at Canterbury and still often referred to as UKC) is a Glass Plate University in the United Kingdom. It was granted its Royal Charter in 1965 and the first students arrived in the October of that year. The main campus covers 300 acres (1.2 km²) and is in an elevated position just over two miles (3 km) from Canterbury's city centre. It has approximately 7,500 undergraduates. A second campus has recently been established at Medway - this has resulted in the formal title of the University being contracted from the original "University of Kent at Canterbury".

Alumni

• Lord Bassam of Brighton - Government Whip in the House of Lords
• Rosie Boycott - journalist, former editor of The Independent
• Alan Davies - comedian and actor
• Gavin Esler - BBC Newsnight Presenter
• Fi Glover - BBC radio presenter
• Charlotte Green - BBC radio presenter, voted "Most Attractive Female Voice on National Radio"
• Shiulie Ghosh - ITV News Presenter
• David Horsey - Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist
• Kazuo Ishiguro - novelist, Booker Prize winner
• David Mitchell - novelist
• Sir Hugh Orde OBE - Chief Constable of Northern Ireland
• Emily Thornberry - Member of Parliament
• Tom Wilkinson OBE - actor, Oscar nominee
• Frederick Kambemba Yamusangie - novelist
• Johnny Yeo - Artist