The University of Surrey is a global community of ideas and people, dedicated to life-changing education and research. An international outlook is at the heart of the University’s mission to solve global challenges, lead research and innovation.
The University of Surrey was established on 9 September 1966 with the grant of its Royal Charter, but its roots go back to a late 19th-century concern to provide greater access to further and higher education for the poorer inhabitants of London. By the beginning of the 1960s, the College had outgrown its main building in Battersea Park Road and in 1962 it was decided to move the institution to Guildford.