Anglia Ruskin University (ARU) is a public university in East Anglia, United Kingdom. Its origins are in the Cambridge School of Art (CSA), founded by William John Beamont, a Fellow of Trinity College at University of Cambridge, in 1858. It became a university in 1992, and was renamed after John Ruskin, the Oxford University professor and author, in 2005. Ruskin gave the inauguration speech of the Cambridge School of Art in 1858. It is one of the "post-1992 universities". The motto of the university is in Latin Excellentia per societatem, in English Excellence through partnership. Anglia Ruskin University was named University of the Year 2023 by Times Higher Education.
Main entrance to Anglia Ruskin University Cambridge Campus
Lord Ashcroft Building at ARU Cambridge.
The Cambridge School of Art at ARU Cambridge.
Young Street at ARU Cambridge. Tribute to NHS heroes during the Covid pandemic.
East Anglia is an area in the East of England. It comprises the counties of Norfolk and Suffolk, with Cambridgeshire and Essex also included in some definitions. The name derives from the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of the East Angles, a people whose name originated in Anglia, in what is now Northern Germany.
Norwich, with an urban population of 210,000, is the largest settlement in East Anglia.
Ipswich, with an urban population of 180,000, is the second largest settlement in East Anglia.
Peterborough, with an urban population of 160,000, is the third largest settlement in East Anglia.
Port of Felixstowe – Landguard Terminal in the foreground with Trinity Terminal in the background