A university designed around the working adult
Berkshire University was founded in 2015 to open higher education to people with full-time jobs and family commitments.
Why Berkshire exists
Millions of capable people stopped studying because life started: a job, a family, a move. Years later they do the work of a graduate, without the degree.
Traditional universities ask these people to start again from the first lecture, as if their years of work had taught them nothing. Berkshire was built on the opposite idea. Adults learn from experience. A university for adults should be able to recognise that learning, test it properly, and then teach what is missing.
Our students and graduates, many of them through partner learning centres in their own countries, live and work across the Arab world, in Europe and in other regions.
You have already done the hard part
You did not wait for a classroom to start learning. You learned on night shifts and site visits, in budget meetings, in front of customers, and from mistakes you only made once.
Years of that work are an education, even if no one has ever written it down. Berkshire University exists to write it down properly.
We do not hand out credit for a job title. We test what you know, course by course, teach you what is missing, and put the result on a degree that anyone can check.
It will ask something of you. You will be examined, you will study, and you will complete a graduation project of your own. In return, everything you have learned gets a fair hearing.
It is never too late to hold the degree your work has earned. Begin when you are ready.
Berkshire UniversityKnowledge, integrity, excellence
What we are here to do
Our mission
To give working adults a rigorous and flexible route to a university degree, by assessing what they already know and teaching what they still need.
Our vision
A university where experience and study carry the same weight, because both are measured by the same standard.
Three words on our seal
- Knowledge
What you know matters more than where you learned it. We measure knowledge wherever it was gained.
- Integrity
Every grade comes from an assessment. Every statement we make about ourselves is one we can support.
- Excellence
Flexible does not mean easy. Our courses ask for real work, applied in real workplaces.
A decade of work with professionals
- 2015the year Berkshire University was founded
- 3degree levels: bachelor's, master's and doctorate
- 9colleges
- 85programs across three degree levels
The adult learner comes first
Start from experience
We begin with what you can already do, and build from there.
Learn by doing
Each unit ends with a task carried out in your own workplace.
Respect your time
Short lessons, no fixed hours, and a plan with an end date.
Say it plainly
Our policies and our status are published in words anyone can understand.
Read our quality and accreditation statement
We tell every applicant exactly where the University stands before they enrol.