BOURNEMOUTH AND POOLE COLLEGE OF ART
In 1913, the two Science and Art Schools at Bournemouth East and Bournemouth West were incorporated into the Bournemouth and Poole College of Art and Design along with the Technical and Commercial Schools. All art subjects then came under the umbrella of the School of Art within the Bournemouth Municipal College. In 1964, Bournemouth and Poole College of Art was formed through the merger of Bournemouth Municipal College of Art and Poole College of Art. In 1979 it became the Bournemouth and Poole College of Art and Design in 1979. The first new building on the present campus was opened in 1984 and in 1998, the name was changed to The Arts Institute at Bournemouth (AIB) and in 2001, the AIB became a higher education institution. In 2009, the Arts Institute Bournemouth changed its name to the Arts University College at Bournemouth and in 2012, the Government announced that the qualifying threshold required by an institution to gain full university status was to be lowered from 4,000 to 1,000 full-time higher education students which the Arts University College at Bournemouth satisfied and officially became Arts University Bournemouth (AUB).