Our origins can be traced to the early 20th century, with the foundation of Bournemouth Municipal College. Our modern history began in the early 1970s with the creation of the Bournemouth College of Technology, and the construction of new buildings on the largest farm in Talbot Village.
By the time the new buildings were completed, in 1976, the Dorset Education Committee had reviewed the way it was. The result was that our name changed again, this time to the Dorset Institute of Higher Education.
In 1990, we successfully met the requirements of the Polytechnics and Colleges Funding Council and became Bournemouth Polytechnic, but that only the last two years. Under the Higher & Further Education Act of 1992, we finally became Bournemouth University, with an inauguration ceremony on 27 November that year.