The University of Lancaster (English Lancaster University, officially University of Lancaster) is a renowned public campus university in Lancaster, England with over 15,000 students, which, according to various rankings, is one of the 10 best universities in the country. In addition to Durham, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle, Sheffield and York, she is also a member of the N8 Group of research-intensive universities in Northern England. Lancaster University also operates a study site in Leipzig under the name Lancaster University Leipzig. The university was founded in 1964. The university originally had two colleges , Bowland and Lonsdale (with Bowland being built first and Lonsdale being completed a year later). There are now 8 undergraduate colleges, each named after the historic boundaries of the County of Lancashire.

Arts and Social Sciences

• Educational Research
• English Literature and Creative Writing
• History
• Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts (Architecture, Art, Design, Film, Theatre)
• Languages and Cultures (Chinese, French, German, Italian, Spanish)
• Law School (Criminology, Law)
• Linguistics and English Language
• Politics, Philosophy and Religion
• Sociology

Health and Medicine

• Biomedical and Life Sciences
• Health Research
• Lancaster Medical School

Management School

• Accounting and Finance
• Centre for Education, Training and Development (CETAD)
• Economics
• Entrepreneurship and Strategy
• Management Science
• Marketing
• Organisation, Work and Technology

Science and Technology

• Chemistry
• Computing and Communications
• Engineering
• Lancaster Environment Centre (Biological Sciences, Environmental Science, Geography)
• Mathematics and Statistics
• Natural Sciences
• Physics
• Psychology

Lancaster University Students' Union (LUSU) is the representative body of students at the university. Unusually, there is no main union building – instead the union is organised through the eight college JCRs, each of which has its own social venues and meeting spaces. The union is, however, allocated an administration building by the university. SCAN (acronym for Student Comments And News) is the union's newspaper and was established in 1967. LUSU owns a nightclub in Lancaster called The Sugarhouse (which survived an attempt to close it in 2019) operates a shop on campus, LUSU Central and also an off campus housing agency LUSU Living.