UNIVERSITY OF SUNDERLAND

The University of Sunderland is a public research university located in Sunderland in the North East of England. Its predecessor, Sunderland Technical College, was established as a municipal training college in 1901. It gained university status in 1992. It now has campuses in Sunderland, London and Hong Kong, and has about 27,000 students.

Sunderland has been an important centre for education since 674 AD, when Benedict Biscop built St Peter’s Church and monastery. St Peter’s Church was the site of the greatest scriptorium north of the Alps. The oldest existing Latin version of the Bible – the Codex Amiatinus – was written at St Peter’s Church. This area has been developed as the Sir Tom Cowie Campus at St Peter’s of the University of Sunderland. The university’s £9m state-of-the-art Media Centre, launched in 2004, is near St Peter’s Church, Monkwearmouth.