The move follows the merger of the universities of Kent and Greenwich in 2025.As a specialist postgraduate university, Cranfield will benefit from the interdisciplinary breadth and scale of King’s. King’s, in turn, will be strengthened by Cranfield’s world-renowned expertise in technology, engineering and management, alongside its deep and long-standing partnerships with industry and government. Prof Dame Karen Holford, chief executive and vice-chancellor at Cranfield University, said the merger would “create a global university” delivering excellence with “purpose, drive and scale”.She added that they would continue their mission to tackle real-world issues with “Cranfield University’s outstanding applied research… and long-standing industry links to King’s”.Lord Patrick Vallance, science minister, said the merger “creates an extraordinarily powerful university”.”It holds huge potential for the Oxford-Cambridge Growth Corridor” and gives “King’s a place at the heart of one of our most important regions for science and technology”, he said.
Cranfield University to merge with King’s College London
