<P> As of August 2017, there were 106 universities in England and 5 university colleges out of a total of around 130 in the United Kingdom . This includes private universities but does not include other Higher Education Institutions that have not been given the right to call themselves "university" or "university college" by the Privy Council or Companies House (e.g. colleges of higher education), or colleges of the University of London . </P> <P> The following is a list of English universities and university colleges recognised by the Office for Students (OfS), together with the date on which they were created . OfS publishes the official list . </P>

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