Plymouth Marjon University Information

Coordinates: 50°25′14″N 04°06′36″W / 50.42056°N 4.11000°W / 50.42056; -4.11000

Plymouth Marjon University, commonly referred to as Marjon is the Trading name of the University of St Mark and St John, a university based primarily on a single campus on the northern edge of Plymouth, Devon, United Kingdom. Formerly named University College Plymouth St Mark and St John, the institution was awarded full university status in 2013.

The Vice-Chancellor of the university is Rob Warner who joined in March 2017.

The universitys history dates back to the foundation by the National Society (now National Society for Promoting Religious Education) of the constituent London colleges of St Johns College in Battersea, London (1840) and St Marks College in Chelsea, London (1841).

St Marks College was founded upon the beliefs of The Reverend Derwent Coleridge, son of the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, its first principal: that its primary purpose was to widen the educational horizons of its students. During the First World War, St Marks College was requisitioned by the War Office to create the 2nd London General Hospital, a facility for the Royal Army Medical Corps to treat military casualties. St Johns College was established by Sir James Kay-Shuttleworth, together with Edward Carleton Tufnell, as a teacher training institution.

These colleges merged in 1923, establishing a single institution in Chelsea as the College of St Mark and St John. In 1973 came the move to Plymouth due to the college outgrowing the Chelsea campus. In 1991 the college became affiliated to the University of Exeter, which accredited it to run undergraduate and postgraduate programmes leading to degree awards of the University of Exeter, and in 2007, gained University College status, as the University College Plymouth St Mark and St John. It was awarded full university status as Plymouth Marjon University in 2013.

The university campus several miles north of Plymouth city centre, next to Derriford Hospital. Residential accommodation is provided, with all first year students guaranteed a place. In 2013 a major investment programme in campus facilities was completed, with new sport and exercise science laboratories, extensive indoor and outdoor sports provision, theatre, media centre and music studio.

The university has over 70 taught programmes of study. There are two faculties: Faculty of Education, Enterprise and Culture and Faculty of Sport, Health and Wellbeing.

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