Programs : Brochure
- Locations: Hatfield, United Kingdom
- Program Terms: Academic Year, Fall, Spring
Minimum GPA Requirement: | 2.5 | Program Type: | Exchange |
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Language of Instruction: | English | Housing Options: | Dormitory |
Minimum GPA Requirement: | 2.5 | Program Type: | Exchange |
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Language of Instruction: | English | Housing Options: | Dormitory |
The University is the UK's leading business-facing university and an exemplar in the sector. It is innovative and enterprising and challenges individuals and organisations to excel.
We will shape the next generation of business-facing universities. We will continue to be an exemplar in the sector and we will play a leading role in addressing the economic and social challenges facing the UK in increasingly competitive global markets. Innovation, creativity and an enterprising mindset will be the defining characteristics of our University. We will provide flexible and transformational learning and commit to adding value to our partners and delivering positive and productive engagements with business, industry and the professions.
The University will continue to play a central role in the local and regional economy, contributing positively to its social and economic development, and we will build our international profile and global reputation.
Our mission
An innovative and enterprising university, challenging individuals and organisations to excel.
Our values
The following core values will inform and sustain all of our activities.
We aspire to be:
Student-centred
Innovative, creative and enterprising
Committed to supporting and developing our people
Focused on excellence and its celebration
Dedicated to enjoyment in learning and work
A place of integrity where the individual is respected
City Information:
Hatfield is a town in Hertfordshire, England, in the borough of Welwyn Hatfield approximately 20 minutes train from central London. From the 1930s when de Havilland opened a factory until the 1990s when British Aerospace closed, Hatfield was associated with aircraft design and manufacture, which employed more people than any other industry. Hatfield was one of the post-war New Towns built around London and has much modernist architecture from the period. The University of Hertfordshire is based there.
In the Saxon period Hatfield was known as Hetfelle, but by the year 970, when King Edgar gave 5,000 acres to the monastery of Ely, it had become known as Haethfeld. Hatfield is mentioned in the Domesday Book as the property of the Abbey of Ely. No other records remain from that time until 1226, when Henry III granted the Bishops of Ely rights to an annual four-day fair and a weekly market. The town was then called Bishop's Hatfield. Hatfield House is the seat of the Cecil family, the Marquesses of Salisbury. Elizabeth Tudor was confined there for three years in what is now known as "The Old Palace" in Hatfield Park. Legend has it that it was here in 1558, while sitting under an oak tree in the Park, that she learned that she had become Queen following the death of her half-sister, Queen Mary I. She held her first Council in the Great Hall (The Old Palace) of Hatfield. In 1851, the route of the Great North Road (now the A1000) was altered to avoid cutting through the grounds of Hatfield House.
After the Second World War, Hatfield was designated a New Town under the New Towns Act 1946. The Government designated 2,340 acres for Hatfield New Town. The Hatfield Development Corporation, tasked with creating the New Town, chose to build a new town centre. Hatfield retains New Town characteristics, including much modernist architecture of the 1950s and the trees and open spaces that were outlined in the original design.