Canterbury Christ Church University was founded by the Church of England as a college for teaching training in 1962. It achieved public university status in 2005, but remains affiliated to the Anglican faith. The Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, the head of the Church of England, is the institution’s Chancellor.
The university has three campuses across Kent and Medway, one campus in Canterbury, part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and others spread out across the English county of Kent in Medway and Tunbridge Wells.
There remains a strong focus on courses for teachers, nurses, allied health practitioners and the police, as well as those working in social care. However, it also offers a range of academic programmes across the arts, humanities, social sciences, business, science and engineering.
In 2020, in partnership with the University of Kent, Canterbury Christ Church University opened the Kent and Medway Medical School (KMMS), the first medical school for the county.
