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The University of Keele, commonly known as "Keele University", is a public research campus university about 3 miles (4.5 km) from Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, England. Keele was granted university status by Royal Charter in 1962, and was originally founded in 1949 as the 'University College of North Staffordshire', as an experimental college dedicated to a broad curriculum and interdisciplinary study.

The university occupies a 620 acre (250 ha) rural campus close to the village of Keele and has a science park and a conference centre, making it the largest main campus university in the UK. The university's School of Medicine operates the clinical part of their courses from a separate campus at the University Hospital of North Staffordshire in Hartshill, Stoke-on-Trent. The school of nursing and midwifery is based at the nearby clinical education centre.