Lancaster University

Lancaster University, officially The University of Lancaster, is a Britishuniversity in Lancaster, Lancashire, England. The University has an annual income of £149 million,2,250 staff and 17,415 students. In the last Research Assessment Exercise Lancaster was named the 7th best research institution in the United Kingdom. Along with the universities of Durham, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle, Sheffield and York, Lancaster forms the N8 Group of research universities. Lancaster was ranked 10th of 113 British universities in the 2008 Good University Guide.

Lancaster is a collegiate university, with its main functions divided between three central faculties
and nine colleges. In general, the faculties perform research and
provide centralised lectures to students, while the colleges are
responsible for the domestic arrangements and welfare of undergraduate
students, graduate students, post-doctoral researchers and some
University staff.

Above is taken from wikipedia (accessed 25th Feb 2009)