De Montfort University

De Montfort University is a public university in Leicester, England. Its roots lie in the Leicester School of Art, founded in 1870, and in later city colleges of art and technology. It took university status in 1992 and the De Montfort name, after Simon de Montfort, earl of Leicester. It is a civic university on a city-center campus rather than a collegiate or land-grant institution.

Academic work is grouped in faculties covering business and law, health and life sciences, computing, engineering and media, and arts, design and humanities. The university is known for design and fashion, including footwear and textiles, and for computing, media production, and pharmacy. Leicester Castle Business School occupies historic buildings in the city. Studios, workshops, and laboratories sit on the central campus beside the River Soar.

Enrollment is about 25,000 students, including a large international cohort from South Asia, Africa, East Asia, and the rest of Europe. Graduate students are a minority of the total. Faculty number in the hundreds. Alumni work mainly in British design, media, business, and public services.

Taught master's degrees are the main graduate offering, with research master's and doctorates also awarded. Many master's programs are one-year taught courses in the British pattern, combining lectures, studio or laboratory work, and a dissertation. The academic year follows autumn and spring teaching terms. Students study on a walkable campus in central Leicester, a mid-sized English city with rail links to London and Birmingham.

In the Grad School Navigator directory, De Montfort University lists 3 graduate programs across 3 subjects, all of them master's programs, with the widest choice in business & management and environmental design.