History of DMU Milton Keynes
The main building, Henshaw. This housed the bar, shop
and a number of lecture/class rooms.
At the start of the decade, De Montfort University was selected by the then Milton Keynes Development Corporation, from among 22 contenders, to open the Milton Keynes centre on the basis of the quality of academic and financial plans submitted.
De Montfort University Milton Keynes enrolled its first students in September 1991, little after building work started on the new centre. In March of the following year Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II officially opened Britain's newest higher education campus. By September 1992, the first phase of development was completed and the student population had risen to over one thousand. The first graduates and diplomates from Milton Keynes received their awards in the summer of 1993.
The Kents Hill Campus reflects the young, modern and expanding environment of Milton Keynes. Set in superb surroundings, it incorporates first-class teaching facilities, studios and laboratories with library, refectories, bar and a wide range of other facilities. Within walking distance of the campus is the newly completed Brooksbank hall of residence which offers purpose-built, self-catering student accommodation.
Brooksbank halls of residence located in Kents Hill
From the first, collaboration with our near neighbours The Open University and Milton Keynes College, has enabled us to develop a rapidly expanding portfolio of courses in architecture, business, computing, engineering, land management, social work and social sciences - a range that will expand as the campus grows towards its target of 5,000 students in the next ten years.
Building on the foundation of quality education developed over the last quarter of a century at Leicester, De Montfort University Milton Keynes offers students the unique opportunity to study on proven and recognised courses, in a new environment purpose-designed for the 21st century.
The campus was closed in 2003 and is now the Open University East campus.
Copy taken from a page listed on the Wayback Machine. The page was originally the DMU MK homepage.
For more on the university see: De Montfort University