University of Buckingham

The University of Buckingham is a non-profit private university in Buckingham, England, and the oldest of the country's six private universities. It was founded as the University College at Buckingham in 1973 and admitted its first students in 1976. It was granted university status by royal charter in 1983. Some of the founding academics migrated from the University of Oxford, disillusioned or wary of aspects of the late-1960s ethos. The university was incorporated as the "University College of Buckingham" in 1976 and received its royal charter as a university from the Queen in 1983. As of May 2016, it is the only private university in the UK with a royal charter.