BPP University

BPP University is a private university specialising in law, business, finance, accountancy, banking, chiropractic, dentistry, nursing, psychology and healthcare. BPP University has sites in several UK city centre locations, particularly in London. Since 2009 it has been owned and run by BPP Holdings, part of the US-based for-profit education company Apollo Group. The Apollo Group was taken over by a private equity consortium in February 2017, triggering a review of BPP University's university status and degree awarding powers.^[2]

The university is a UK degree-awarding body with four schools: BPP University Business School, BPP University Law School, BPP University School of Health^[3] and BPP University School of Foundation and English Language Studies.

The university was awarded the 2010 Education Investor award for "Post-16 Education Provider of the Year" and Education Investor magazine's "Higher/Professional Education Provider of the Year 2013" award in November.^[4]

BPP University Law School has been chosen as the provider for the LPC by a number of leading law firms, including, among others, Allen & Overy, Baker & McKenzie, Clifford Chance, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Herbert Smith Freehills, Hogan Lovells, Latham & Watkins, Mayer Brown, and Slaughter and May.^[5]

History

BPP was founded by Alan Brierley, Richard Price and Charles Prior in 1976 as Brierley Price Prior to provide exam training to accountancy students.^[6] In 1992 BPP Law School was founded and in 2005 joined forces with the newly formed BPP Business School under the name BPP College.^[6] BPP University was founded by Carl Lygo (who would become the founding Vice-Chancellor), Amanda Blackmore (the first Deputy Vice Chancellor), Peter Crisp (Dean of the Law School) and Chris Maguire (Dean of Academic Affairs).

In 2007 BPP College obtained degree-awarding powers,^[7] the first publicly owned private company in the UK to do so, based on examination by the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (QAA). In June 2009 BPP Holdings, the holding company that owned the college, was bought for £303.5M by Apollo Global.^[8] In July 2010, BPP College was granted university college status and the name became BPP University College.^[9]

In August 2013 BPP University College was awarded university status and changed its name to BPP University.^[10] On August 29 2015, BPP University partnered up with Roots IVY University College, a for-profit Pakistan education group, to provide undergraduate BPP law degree's to students enrolled at Roots campus in Pakistan.^[11]

In February 2017, BPP University's American owners, the Apollo Education Group, were taken over by a consortium of private equity investors. This triggered a review of the institution's university status and degree awarding powers, described by vice chancellor Carl Lygo in Times Higher Education as "not a rubber-stamp process". Lygo also said that "Neither of the new owners has any record in delivering higher education in the UK and so their plans will be carefully scrutinised by the Department for Education".^[2] Lygo left as Vice Chancellor in March 2017. ^[12]

Locations

BPP University has study centres in Abingdon, Birmingham, Bristol, Cambridge, Leeds, Liverpool, London and Manchester.^[13]

Organisation and administration

BPP University is one of nine private degree awarding bodies in the UK. It receives direct funding from tuition fees at the level of its choice.^[9] In 2011, BPP set its fees for 2012 undergraduate courses at £5,000.^[14]

Academic programmes

The university offers degree programmes in law,^[15] business (management, marketing, human resources, entrepreneurship, leadership) accounting, finance, psychology and health studies. In 2011, it had 6,780 students taking courses in its Business School, Law School, School of Health and School of Foundation & English Language Studies. A further 30,000 took accountancy qualifications with BPP's professional training organisation BPP Professional Education. The university also manages and operates McTimoney College of Chiropractic^[16] and through that partnership offers four year master's degrees in Chiropractic.^[9]

Other programmes

"Pathway programmes" are non-degree programmes.^[17]

The university also provides a number of Professional Education courses, leading to exams taken with professional bodies such as the Chartered Institute of Marketering (CIM).^[18]

References

External links

• BPP University official site

Universities in the United Kingdom
England	East Anglia Anglia Ruskin BPP Cambridge East Anglia Norwich University of the Arts Suffolk London University of London Birkbeck City Courtauld Goldsmiths Heythrop Institute of Cancer Research KCL London Business School LSE LSHTM Queen Mary Royal Academy of Music RCSSD Royal Holloway Royal Veterinary College St George's SOAS UCL Other BPP Brunel East London Greenwich Imperial Kingston Law London Met London South Bank Middlesex Regent's University London Richmond, The American International University in London Royal College of Art Royal College of Music Roehampton St Mary's University of the Arts London Westminster West London Midlands Aston BPP Birmingham Birmingham City Bishop Grosseteste Coventry De Montfort Derby Harper Adams Keele Law Leicester Lincoln Loughborough Newman Northampton Nottingham Nottingham Trent Staffordshire University College Birmingham Warwick Wolverhampton Worcester North Bolton BPP Bradford Central Lancashire Chester Cumbria Durham Edge Hill Huddersfield Hull Lancaster Law Leeds Leeds Beckett Leeds Trinity Liverpool Liverpool Hope Liverpool John Moores Manchester Manchester Metropolitan Newcastle Northumbria Salford Sheffield Sheffield Hallam Sunderland Teesside York York St. John South Arts University Bournemouth Ashridge Bath Bath Spa Bedfordshire Bournemouth BPP Brighton Bristol Buckingham Buckinghamshire New Canterbury Christ Church Chichester Cranfield Creative Arts Essex Exeter Falmouth Gloucestershire Hertfordshire Kent Law Oxford Oxford Brookes Plymouth Portsmouth Reading Royal Agricultural University St Mark & St John Southampton Southampton Solent Surrey Sussex UWE Winchester
Northern Ireland	Queen's Ulster
Scotland	Aberdeen Abertay Dundee Dundee Edinburgh Edinburgh Napier Glasgow Glasgow Caledonian Heriot-Watt Highlands and Islands Queen Margaret Robert Gordon Royal Conservatoire of Scotland St Andrews Stirling Strathclyde West of Scotland
Wales	Aberystwyth Bangor Cardiff Cardiff Metropolitan South Wales Swansea Swansea Metropolitan UW Trinity Saint David Wrexham Glyndŵr
Overseas territories	Bermuda College Cayman Islands Law School International College of the Cayman Islands Saint James School of Medicine St. Matthew's University University of Gibraltar University College of the Cayman Islands University of Science, Arts and Technology University of the West Indies
Crown dependencies	University of the Channel Islands in Guernsey
Non−geographic	Lambeth degrees Open University University of London International Programmes
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