University of Stirling
![The Pathfoot Building opened in 1968](/Images/godic/202502/13/Pathfoot_Building4330.jpg")
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The University of Stirling is a UK research intensive campus university founded by Royal charter in 1967 in Stirling, Scotland.
It is ranked among the top 60 universities in the world that are under 50 years old by the Times Higher Education World University Rankings. In the 2014 assessment of research in the UK, Research Excellence Framework, it was ranked 5th in Scotland and 40th in the UK for research intensity.