Teesside University is a public university in Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, England, with its main campus in Middlesbrough. According to the HESA student record for 2020/21, it has over 21,000 students studying in the UK. Teesside University began as a Constantine Technical College, which was officially opened on July 2, 1930, by future King Edward VIII, Prince of Wales. Teesside Polytechnic (Britain's 13th Polytechnic) was founded in 1969 after a temporary rebranding as Constantine College of Technology. The university offered seventeen-degree programs at the time. Teesside Polytechnic became the University of Teesside on June 16, 1992, one of the UK's first new institutions after the passage of the Further and Higher Education Act that year. The University of Teesside was renamed "Teesside University" in 2009.