The University of Bradford is a public research university located in the city of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England. This plate glass university received its royal charter in 1966, making it the 40th university to be created in Britain but can trace its origins back to the establishment of the industrial West Yorkshire town’s Mechanics Institute in 1832. The University of Bradford is the first higher education institution in the UK to open a modern business school known as School of Management which is regarded as one of the oldest and most prestigious triple-accredited business schools in the world.

The student population includes 8,045 undergraduate and 2,915 postgraduate students. Mature students make up around a third of the undergraduate community. 22% of students are foreign and come from over 110 different countries. There were 14,406 applications to the university through UCAS in 2010, of which 3,421 were accepted.

It was the first British university to establish a Department of Peace Studies in 1973, which is currently the world's largest university centre for the study of peace and conflict.