Nottingham Trent University (NTU) is a public teaching and research university

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 in Nottingham

Nottingham

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, United Kingdom

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. It was founded as a new university

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 in 1992 from the existing Trent Polytechnic

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(later Nottingham Polytechnic), however it can trace its roots back to 1843 with the establishment of the Nottingham Government School of Design

Nottingham Trent University, School of Art and Design

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 which still exists within the university today. Nottingham Trent University is one of the largest universities in the United Kingdom with around 24,000 students split over three different campuses.
Nottingham Trent University is essentially the result of the amalgamation of many separate institutions of higher education.