Oxford Brookes University began life as the Oxford School of Art in 1865, when it occupied one room on the ground floor of the Taylor Institution in the centre of the city. Five years later the School of Science was incorporated, offering a wide range of scientific and technical subjects and evening classes in the University Museum. In 1891, the School was taken over by Oxford City Council’s Technical Instruction Committee and renamed Oxford City Technical School. Oxford Brookes University is a premier learning and teaching institution with an outstanding research record. We are widely acknowledged to be the UKs leading modern university, surpassing many older institutions in newspaper league tables. While we are proud of that accolade, our vision is simply to become one of the very best of all universities. A tradition of academic excellence Oxford Brookes University is the only UK modern university to have achieved 24 subjects rated as excellent for teaching. We have a longstanding reputation for employability, and are host to two national centres of excellence in teaching and learning. The University can trace its history back as far as 1865 with the foundation of the Oxford School of Art, which over the centuries merged and grew to become todays university. It was in 1992 that the then Oxford Polytechnic became Oxford Brookes University, naming itself after John Henry Brookes, first Principal of the Schools of Technology, Art and Commerce.