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The University of Derby has a campus in Buxton as well as in Allestree on the outskirts of the city.

The main campus is on Kedleston Road, Allestree in the north-west of Derby. There is also a university site in Buxton, which is centred on the new Devonshire campus, a grade II* listed building which dominates the local landscape and has a dome which is over 150ft in diameter, bigger than that of St Paul's Cathedral in London. It was formally opened by Prince Charles in 2006. A new building for Arts, Design and Technology students on Markeaton Street in Derby is due to open in 2007, by Richard Branson. Health and Psychology courses are currently based at the Mickleover campus. The University has total of 24,000 registered students, of whom c. 9,000 are full-time undergraduates. Currently (2006) 54% of students are mature (over 21).

The University was the only one in the country to be upgraded directly from a higher education college to a university, along with all the polytechnics in 1992. The Mickleover campus used to be the Bishop Lonsdale College of Education.

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