University of Abertay Dundee

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**University of Abertay Dundee**

Established	1888
Chancellor	David Ogilvy, Earl of Airlie
Principal	Prof Bernard King
Chairman of Court	Professor Gordon Hewitt
Students	c. 5,150
Undergraduates	3,223
Postgraduates	551
Location	Dundee, Scotland
Website	http://www.abertay.ac.uk

The University of Abertay Dundee, usually known simply as the University of Abertay, is a university in Dundee, Scotland. The University of Abertay is a new university (compare Ancient universities of Scotland). It was created in 1994, under government legislation granting the title University to Dundee Institute of Technology, which was itself founded in 1888, becoming a Central Institution and gaining independent degree-giving authority in the 1970s. The courses offered by the university are non-traditional in nature being more vocationally focused than traditional universities. Honours degree courses such as "computer game development", "ethical hacking and countermeasures", "food product design", "sport health and exercise" and "media, culture and society" are all on the course syllabus. Traditional academic subjects such as maths, physics, english, classics, geography, chemistry and history are not taught at the university.

Today, the University of Abertay is a world leader in computer games technology and design and is also home to the Dundee Business School. In the current Times University Ranking tables, the University of Abertay is placed fifty-seventh in a list of 109 UK universities.^[1]

In May 2002 The University of Abertay was ranked number one in the United Kingdom for its investment in information technology facilities by the Financial Times.^[2] David Jones, the creator of Grand Theft Auto and Lemmings computer game series, attended Abertay and Dare to Be Digital, a world wide recognised computer game production competition is run by the university each year.