-1899 Kingston Technical Institute opens, offering courses ranging from Chemistry, Electric Wiring and Building Construction to Nursing, Dressmaking and Clay Modelling
-1917 Gipsy Hill College for teacher training opens
-1926 The Board of Education formally ...
Accounting with Business English MSc The MSc in Accounting with Business English has been developed from our highly successful Accounting and Finance MSc, which has established an international reputation for the quality of its graduates. This course allows you to develop your English...
Accounting and Finance MSc If you have a degree in any discipline and would like to significantly enhance your career prospects in the wider business practice of accounting and financial management, this Accounting and Finance MSc course is ideal. It offers a rigorous and challenging...
Accounting and Information Systems MSc If you would like to develop an understanding of how modern information technology is best used to support the accounting activities within an organisation, this Accounting and Information Systems MSc course is ideal. It is designed to improve your...
BA Accounting and Finance If you are interested in the application of numerical techniques and the interpretation and communication of financial information, this course is ideal. It explores the theory and practical application of accounting and finance, and will give you a thorough...
Advertising & the Creative Economy MA It will develop your creative skills while also giving you an overview of how to manage the industry effectively within the creative economy. Whatever your current job within the creative industries, no matter how much experience you have or what size...
BSc Acupuncture Successful completion of this course provides a professional qualification, a Licentiate in Acupuncture, as well as the BSc honours degree, enabling you to become a fully qualified acupuncturist. The course is taught at the College of Integrated Chinese Medicine (CICM) in...
Spatial Design & the Creative Economy MA It will develop your creative skills while also giving you an overview of how to manage the industry effectively within the creative economy. The Cox Review of Creativity in Business (2005), commissioned by the UK government, cites design as “what...
BA Architecture Architecture at Kingston University is centred on design, reflecting the course's context within an art and design-based faculty. The curriculum builds on the fundamental creative processes of observation and making, and its ethos could be summarised as 'thinking through...
BA Landscape Architecture Kingston’s degree in Landscape Architecture focuses on the practice and theory of small, medium and large-scale urban and landscape design. The course is professionally accredited by the Landscape Institute, enabling graduates to progress towards a professional...
Architecture & the Creative Economy MA If you are currently employed in or would like to develop a career in architecture, the Architecture and the Creative Economy MA course is ideal. It will develop your creative skills while also giving you an overview of how to manage the industry...
BA Landscape Architecture Landscape Architecture focuses on the design and communication of proposals for open space: from city squares, streets and parks at the small scale, to regeneration masterplanning and strategies for conservation at the large scale. The course is professionally...
BA Landscape Planning Landscape planning is an expanding field that addresses regional and strategic spatial planning and design. It focuses on landscape and urban design at the medium and large scales, such as coastal zones, parks, forests and river valleys. If you enjoy geography,...
Art and Space MA It allows you to identify and locate spaces in which to make and ‘test’ your work in the public domain, through site-specific work, performance and sound installation, internet activity, print-based publication, etc. You will have the opportunity to develop and apply...
Art & the Creative Economy MA It will develop your creative skills while also giving you an overview of how to manage the industries effectively within the creative economy. Whatever your current job within the creative industries, no matter how much experience you have or what size of...
Arts Market Appraisal (Professional Practice) MA It offers a unique mix of academic tuition and exposure to London’s huge and dynamic art market. Accredited by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), the course leads to entry to the RICS as probationary member. What will you...
European Arts Practice MA This is an innovative course and the only one of its kind in the UK that provides you with the technical and critical means and experience to work as a professional artist in the European arena. Based at Kingston, but including a placement and exhibition project...
Contemporary Art Practices & the Creative Economy MA It will develop your creative skills while also giving you an overview of how to manage the industries effectively within the creative economy. What will you study? By the end of the course, you will be equipped with the leading-edge...
BA Illustration and Animation Kingston’s Illustration and Animation course is designed to develop highly individual approaches to the creation of descriptive images for both print and moving image. Students from this degree have consistently produced internationally recognised,...
Art and Design History MA As well as advancing your knowledge of developments that have occurred in these vibrant areas of practice over the past two centuries, the course will also provide you with transferable skills in history, theory and research. What will you study? You will study...
BA History of Art, Design and Film This course provides you with the opportunity to examine art, design and film practices within historical and social contexts. The course aims to demonstrate the ways in which art, design and film are deeply social, political, economic and technological...
-1899 Kingston Technical Institute opens, offering courses ranging from Chemistry, Electric Wiring and Building Construction to Nursing, Dressmaking and Clay Modelling
-1917 Gipsy Hill College for teacher training opens
-1926 The Board of Education formally recognises the Institute as a Technical College
-1930 The Kingston School of Art separates from the Technical College (moving to Knights Park in 1939 and becoming a College of Art in 1945)
-1946 Gipsy Hill College moves to Kingston Hill
-1951 The first Penryhn Road campus buildings open (by 1963 they are housing 955 full-time students; 2,259 part-time students and 2,629 evening students)
-1953 The Technical College opens its first library (with lending services starting in 1954)
-1957 The Ministry of Education recognises Kingston as a Regional College of Technology
-1963 Gipsy Hill College gains College of Education status
-1965 The College of Technology establishes its own orchestra
-1966 The College of Technology purchases its first computer, costing £50,000
-1970 The College of Technology and the College of Art merge to form Kingston Polytechnic; it offers 34 major courses, 17 of which at degree level
-1975 Gipsy Hill College merges with Kingston Polytechnic
-1992 Kingston Polytechnic becomes Kingston University
-1993 Roehampton Vale campus building opens
-1995 The University acquires Dorich House
-1999 The University celebrates its centenary