- Motto
- Learn and Live
- Type
- Public , distance education university
- Established
- 1969 ; 57 years ago ( 1969 )
- Founders
- Harold Wilson , Jennie Lee , Walter Perry , Peter Venables
- Accreditation
- Triple accreditation
- Affiliations
- ACU EUA Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools University Alliance Universities UK
- Budget
- £474.1 million (2019–20)
- Chancellor
- Baroness Lane-Fox of Soho
- Vice chancellor
- David Phoenix
- Students
- 199,391 (2023)
- Undergraduates
- 139,117 (2023)
- Postgraduates
- 10,103 (2023)