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Top 175 in the world
QS World University Rankings 2027

Top 30 most targeted by leading employers
Graduate Market Report 2026

Top 100 in the world for sustainability
QS World University Rankings: Sustainability 2026

Royal Society Faraday Discovery Fellowship

Lancaster one of eight universities to receive prestigious award for "exceptional researchers at our world-leading institutions".

£7 million for Island-Ocean Research Hub
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Top 10 in the UK

We're thrilled to be yet again among the top 10 universities in the UK and the best in north-west England (Complete University Guide 2027).

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Celebrating 20 years of education and global impact

26 August 2026

Lancaster University and Sunway University are marking a significant milestone this year, celebrating 20 years of partnership that now supports more than 7,000 students.  
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Danforth Center and Lancaster University launch ‘HeatSmart Cassava’ for a hotter world

21 August 2026

As rising temperatures put growing pressure on a crop that helps sustain 800 million people, Lancaster University and the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center are launching an ambitious effort to help cassava keep producing in a hotter world. 
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New ‘Food for Nature and Society’ doctoral programme to fund 30 PhDs

19 August 2026

Lancaster University is launching a new ‘Food for Nature and Society' doctoral training programme to tackle our contemporary food system crises, while also protecting our planet.
Hannah Jarvis, Lecturer in Biomechanics at Lancaster University, demonstrates Qualisys motion technology in use to visitors from Dnipro University of Technology and Kharkiv National Medical University in Ukraine.

Partnership improves prosthetic limb design for people in Ukraine

17 August 2026

Lancaster University researchers are working with their Ukrainian counterparts and UK amputees to make prosthetic limbs more comfortable for injured military personnel in the war.
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National teaching award for Lancaster professor

6 August 2026

A Lancaster University professor has been awarded a prestigious National Teaching Fellowship. 
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Lancaster medical students commended for helping collapsed man

3 August 2026

Lancaster medical students Thomas Dennill and Samuel Job have been commended after helping a member of the public in distress.

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