Our Strategy
Our strategy starts by declaring that Durham is so much more than a leading research-intensive university. We are a collegiate university, an historic university, a university that values the wider student experience as much as we value education and research.
Durham is one of the world’s great universities and one of the most distinctive. We produce world-leading and world-changing research across all four of our Faculties, our education is challenging, enabling, research-led and transformative and our wider student experience, delivered through our Colleges, Durham Students’ Union and Experience Durham, is among the best in the UK. But we are not complacent. Our University Strategy 2017-2027 sets ambitious targets for growth and development, to ensure that we remain at the cutting edge.
Our strategy starts by declaring that Durham is so much more than a leading research-intensive university. We are a collegiate university, an historic university, a university that values the wider student experience as much as we value education and research.
Strategic goals:
Accordingly, we have three Strategic Goals which we weigh equally:
- To deliver world-leading and world-changing research across all core academic departments and institutes;
- To deliver education that is challenging, enabling, research-led and transformative;
- To deliver, through our Colleges, Durham Students’ Union and Experience Durham, a wider student experience as good as any in the world.
But we are so much more than our league table positions and so much more than a research-intensive university which offers outstanding teaching. Our students benefit from being members for life of one of our Colleges, each of which offers a diverse and supportive community in which they can thrive and develop both personally and academically. Additionally, the Durham Students’ Union and Experience Durham, which co-ordinate our renowned drama, music, leadership, sport, and volunteering programmes, ensure that our students enjoy an unrivalled student experience.
Durham University combines academic excellence with a commitment to producing the highly motivated, well-rounded, and socially engaged leaders of tomorrow.