About
The essence of the University of Stirling is its great people: the graduates, staff and students are helping to shape the world. Founded by Royal Charter in 1967, the University of Stirling was the first genuinely new university in Scotland for over 400 years. It retains the pioneering spirit and a passion for innovation and excellence in everything it does.
It aims to be at the forefront of research and learning that helps to improve lives, working with academic, commercial, public, private and voluntary sector partners, Stirling is one of the UK’s leading research universities in the fields of health and wellbeing, the environment and people, culture and society, enterprise and the economy, and sport.