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Middlesex University was formally established in 1992 by royal assent under the Further and Higher Education Act, converting Middlesex Polytechnic into a university. Its founding institution, St Katharine's College in Tottenham, dates to 1878, giving the university's constituent history a span of over 140 years.
Middlesex University's main campus is in Hendon, northwest London, where all UK teaching has been consolidated since autumn 2013. The university also operates international campuses in Dubai, United Arab Emirates and in Mauritius, with the Mauritius campus having expanded to a second site in Cascavelle in October 2017.
Middlesex University closed its Philosophy department in 2010 on the grounds that it was not financially sustainable. The decision was controversial because the Philosophy department had been rated the highest-ranking department in the university in the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise. An international campaign involving figures such as Slavoj Žižek and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak failed to reverse the closure, though the postgraduate Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy transferred to Kingston University in early June 2010.
Middlesex University has a student body of over 19,000 in London and over 37,000 globally. More than 140 nationalities are represented at the Hendon campus alone, and the university maintains student exchange links with over 100 universities in 22 countries.
The Ritterman Building opened in February 2017 on the Hendon campus. It provides over 3,300 square metres of teaching space and is home to what Middlesex describes as the UK's first cyber factory. The building incorporates sustainable technologies including solar panels, a bio-diverse green roof, and living walls irrigated by rainwater harvesting.
Middlesex University has been awarded the Queen's Anniversary Prize three times and the Queen's Award for Enterprise twice, both for international work. The UK government's Teaching Excellence Framework rated the university Silver in 2017 and again in 2023. The 2014 Research Excellence Framework rated 58% of the university's submitted research as world and internationally excellent.