Bangor University is a university based in the city of Bangor in the county of Gwynedd in North Wales. It was officially known for most of its history as the University College of North Wales . From 1995 until 31 August 2007 the University was known as University of Wales, Bangor and Prifysgol Cymru, Bangor . The University was founded as the "University College of North Wales" on 18 October 1884 with an inaugural address by the Earl of Powis, the College's first President, in Penrhyn Hall. There was then a procession to the college with 3,000 quarryman . The result of a campaign for... better higher education provision in Wales,and following some rivalry between North Wales towns as to which was to be the base of the new college, it was incorporated by charter a year later. Its students received degrees from the University of London until 1893 when UCNW became a founding constituent institution of the federal University of Wales.
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| Location: | Bangor, Gwynedd
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| Founded: | 1884 |
| School type: | Public university |
| Total enrollment: | 16,605 |
| Colors: | Yellow, Green |