It has its origins in the Cambridge School of Art, founded by William John Beamont[3] in 1858. The school became Anglia Polytechnic after it joined with the Cambridgeshire College of Arts and Technology and the Essex Institute of Higher Education. It became a university in 1992 and was renamed Anglia Ruskin University (after John Ruskin) in 2005.
It has been listed in the Times Higher Education’s (THE) World University Rankings – being named as one of the top 350 institutions in the world and joint 38th best in the UK.[4] Anglia Ruskin University has also been named as one of the most upwardly mobile universities in the world.