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Dedicated to delivering a sustainable future through research-led postgraduate teaching and strategic partnerships. Official account. #OnlyAtCranfield
Joined February 2009
We had a great day last week as Toto Wolff, the Team Principal, CEO and co-owner of @MercedesAMGF1, became our first honorary graduate of 2021 🎓 🙌 . Read the full story 👇 .
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It was great to welcome The Princess Royal to Cranfield today to officially open the National Flying Laboratory Centre’s flying classroom, a specially adapted Saab 340B aircraft which will help students gain invaluable flight test experience @RoyalFamily
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A very proud day as our Vice-Chancellor and @GRBraithwaite collect our sixth Queen’s Anniversary Prize, this time for the work of our National Flying Laboratory Centre 🏅🎊🎉 @QAPrizes #QAPrizes #QueensAnniversaryPrizes
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Ideas on how to create a more sustainable world? Register for our Sustainabilty Innovation Exchange #SustainEx
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What a privilege it was to welcome HRH The Duke of Kent back to Cranfield to see our research facilities and plant a tree as part of @QGCanopy to celebrate the Platinum Jubilee. Read the full story here:. @RoyalFamily @cranfielddartec @CranfieldForSci
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Honoured to welcome Their Royal Highnesses The Crown Princess and Prince Daniel of Sweden today to see the latest developments in sustainable transport solutions, as part of their official visit to the UK. Read more:.
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The honour is all ours as @captaintommoore becomes our honorary graduate for 2020 🙌 💛 . 📽️ We had the chance to talk to him last week - take a look 👀 #CranfieldCommunity #CranfieldGrad #TomorrowWillBeAGoodDay.
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"Absolutely incredible" - not our words, the words of @carolvorders as she reflects on her whirlwind tour of Cranfield's world-class facilities! ✈️ Read more about Carol's visit here: .#CarolVorderman #OnlyatCranfield #CranfieldUniversity #AvGeek
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74 years young! 😍 . 1946 2020.How it started: How it’s going:
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We are delighted to announce today that we have been appointed as lead for the new university in Milton Keynes 😁🎓
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Great to share the news that Professor @KarenHolford will become our new Vice-Chancellor on 1 August, following the retirement of Professor Sir Peter Gregson. We’re excited to welcome you to Cranfield Karen! 💛💙. Read the full announcement👇.
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Huge congratulations to Professor Dame Helen Atkinson CBE, FREng, who has been recognised with a Damehood in the Queen’s Birthday Honours 2021 for her services to engineering and education. We're all very proud of you Helen! 👏 . Read the full story 👇 .
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Today marks 72 years since our journey began! 🎉 Here is our opening announcement from the 'Bedfordshire Times & Standard' circa 1946! Share with us your fondest memories of our "University of the Air" ✈️ #happybirthdaytome #cranfielduni
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We can now announce that Cranfield Airport is the FIRST in the UK to have an operational digital air traffic control centre! See the extended film and learn more here: .#Aviation #OnlyatCranfield #UKfirst.@Saab @SaabnewsUK
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SNOW! ❄️☃️✈️💙 Thanks to Aerospace Manufacturing MSc student Ludovic for sharing his pics with us! 📸
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Surely there aren't many universities that look like this?! Thanks to @PeteMcCarthy_HF for a reminder of what an awesome campus we have! 😍
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We're so happy to have been awarded our sixth Queen's Anniversary Prize from @QAPrizes, this year for the work of our National Flying Laboratory Centre ✈️. Read more 👉 #qaprizes #aerospace #aviation
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Awesome work by our @cranfielddesign team, who have worked with @GeorgiaTech to design and build a simple, low-cost Bag Valve Mask ventilator to help critically-ill COVID-19 patients - find out more 👇 . #CranfieldCommunity #WeAreTogether #UniSupport
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Great to announce that a new £65m Digital Aviation Research & Technology Centre is to be built here at Cranfield ✈️
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So proud to announce that, for the fifth time in our history, we are recipients of a @qaprizes Queen's Anniversary Prize - this time for our research and education in soil science #QueensPrize 🏅5⃣🌿@cranfieldalumni @CranfieldAgrifo @CranfieldEnviro
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It's time to reassert our distinctiveness - welcome to the new look Cranfield.
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Today's the day our Jetstream 31 aircraft will make its final public display at the @ShuttleworthTru Flying Festival of Britain Drive-in Airshow - if you're going, please share your photos with us! #CranfieldNFLC ✈️ 📸 . #airshow #jetstream #avgeek
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Got worms?! 🐛 . New Cranfield research finds that earthworm populations triple with use of cover crops 👉 #farming #agriculture #soil
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Wishing you a very merry Christmas from everyone at Cranfield University! 🎄
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We are deeply saddened to learn of the death of Her Majesty The Queen. We’re proud to have long-standing ties to The Royal Family and send our condolences at this very sad time.
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Sending our love to @captaintommoore's family. We had the absolute honour of talking to him last year when he became our honorary graduate. He lit up the (Zoom) room & we couldn't stop smiling. A lovely, down-to-earth, generous man, who shone with optimism and open-mindedness.
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👏 Huge congratulations to Professor Iain Gray CBE who has been appointed Knight Batchelor in the King’s Birthday Honours 2023 for his exceptional services to the aerospace industry. Read more:.
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Our Digital Aviation Research and Technology Centre @cranfielddartec was officially opened today by @KwasiKwarteng, Business Secretary. Read the full story 👇.
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A HUGE thank you to all who make our university so incredible! 👏Take a look back at this remarkable year in Cranfield University's history. #CranfieldUniversity #OnlyatCranfield
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A huge congratulations to Jane Hubble, our Head of Technical Services in the School of Water, Energy and the Environment, who has been shortlisted for the @timeshighered Awards for Outstanding Technician of the Year 👏.
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Designed by @astonmartin, researched by us, engineered by Cranfield Aerospace Solutions and powered by @rollsroyce. today we’re presenting the Volante Vision Concept! #astonmartinvisionconcept #fia18 @FIAFarnborough
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You may have noticed some changes recently - our new look comes from a very special place in our heritage.
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Happy first day of Spring! 🌈 Thanks to Stephen Hallett for this stunning pic! Anyone found the pot of gold yet? 💰 #FirstDayofSpring #SpringEquinox
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So proud of our very own @Fionacharnley and Professor Emma Sparks, who have been named on the @Telegraph's Top 50 Women In Engineering list, announced today as part of International Women in Engineering Day 18 - congratulations! 👏☺️ #INWED18 @INWED1919
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If you want the rainbow, you have to put up with the rain 🌈 ☔️ ☀️ Amazing skies over campus this afternoon. #OnlyAtCranfield
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Welcome to @KarenHolford, who starts today as our new Vice-Chancellor and Chief Executive! We hope the first official day goes well for you - looking forward to lots of exciting times ahead🙌.
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Today we welcomed @BritishMonarchy HRH The Duke of Kent to find out about campus developments & our work in water
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Two days, four ceremonies, 1000 postgraduate students from more than 100 countries… graduation 2018 has been incredible! Thank you and congratulations to our graduates 🎓😭🙌 #cranfieldgrad
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🙌 We're pleased to see Dr Jacqueline Hannam has officially become the President of the British Society of Soil Science (BSSS). Find out more about Jacqueline's role here:
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🎓 🎉 It's here. our first graduation day of 2020! We asked our honorary graduate @captaintommoore for his words of advice to you, and we couldn't have put it better: you'll never walk alone. Enjoy your celebrations, and share the day with us using #CranfieldGrad 💛 💙
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Just an average day at Cranfield. 😅✈️.A wonderful #Spitfire display for all staff, students and local residents to enjoy! 👏.#onlyatCranfield #Avgeek
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Congratulations to Professor Simon Pollard on being awarded an OBE! 👏.
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Welcome back everyone! Hope you're all ready for another great year in 2020 🎉
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We are absolutely delighted to have raised £150 million to build new student accommodation and the Beacon, a new building at the heart of the campus for teaching, eating and drinking, and socialising 🎉🙌 . Find out more 👇 .
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Absolutely stunning day for a quick whizz around the local area in the Jetstream! ☀️🛩😍
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Here at Cranfield we've taken #RedNoseDay2019 to new heights - even our plane is in fancy dress! Great effort from all involved! 🔴✈️ @comicrelief #OnlyatCranfield
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#SwedenOnTour has reached Cranfield University today! Delighted to welcome the Swedish Ambassador and celebrate our strong relationship with @Saab 🇸🇪. @swedeninuk @sohlstromt
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Cranfield team are ready for a day of battles for @BAESystemsplc UAV Swarm Challenge! Good luck to everyone involved. Let the battles begin 🤩🙏🏼
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We are pleased to announce the hand over of our world-leading Digital Aviation and Research Technology Centre from R G Carter @cranfielddartec 🙌. Find out more ➡️
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Congratulations to Professor Lynette Ryals, Director of Cranfield School of Management and Programme Director for MK:U who has been awarded an OBE, for services to Higher Education, in the 2019 New Year’s Honours List: #NewYearHonours #CranfieldUniversity
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Our team outside of the palace before receiving the water & sanitation #QueensPrize @QAprizes @BritishMonarchy
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Congratulations to our very own Professor William Stephens, who has been awarded an MBE for services to higher education in the New Year's Honours list #NewYearsHonours.
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Today we are in Milton Keynes to launch an international design competition for a landmark design for MK:U, a new model university in the heart of Milton Keynes! #MKU #CranfieldUniversity
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We're at @innovateuk #Innovate2017 today as part of @midsengine - and here's a taster of just one of the projects we're working on!
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Fantastic to welcome back Volante to @CranfieldUni this week! For those of you who were not lucky enough to come and see it up close, here is a little exclusive look from us to you! 🤩 .@astonmartin @RollsRoyceUK .#AstonMartinVisionConcept #Volante #OnlyatCranfield
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Great news that our Aerospace Integration Research Centre, which is helping to change the future design of aircraft, has received its second award in as many months 😊🏆🏆
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Tonight’s BBC Look East location looks very familiar 👀. Tune in tonight at 6:30pm for a special COP26 programme filmed live from Cranfield campus.
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We are extremely proud to support @ZeroAvia in their incredible achievement of the worlds first hydrogen-fuelled flight ✈️ . A historic day for the aerospace industry. #onlyatCranfield 👏. Find out more ➡️
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Huge congratulations to our very own Professor Dame Helen Atkinson, who was nominated as one of the @womenofyear #WomenOfTheYear! 🙌
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Congratulations Hopkins Architects! 👏@Hopkins_Arch have been chosen to create a 21st century university quarter for #MiltonKeynes - #MKU is a partnership between @mkcouncil and #CranfieldUniversity, supported by @santanderuk and @MicrosoftUK .Read more 👉
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The @cranfieldmngmt MBA has been named as number one in the UK for percentage increase in post-MBA salary in the Which MBA? Full-time MBA ranking 2019, published by The Economist 👏. This year’s ranking represents an increase in Cranfield’s position by 15 places ⬆️. @Doglethorpe.
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This week we had the pleasure of welcoming hundreds of you into the Cranfield family 💛💙. Thousands of miles were travelled, hundreds of suitcases were unpacked and many rounds of mini golf were played ⛳️ . This is the start of something special 🙌. #HelloCranfield
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A fantastic day yesterday at the launch of MKU, a new kind of university in Milton Keynes 😊 with @MicrosoftUK @mkcouncil @MKCollege @tech_mahindra @LynetteRyals @GrantThorntonUK @JustinRix @CEOMKCollege @dharmadhikary @Pete_Marland
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Great day yesterday celebrating with the friends and family of our newest honorary graduate as he launched our new Advanced Motorsport Mechatronics MSc course. Congratulations and thank you to Christian Horner OBE (Team Principal at Aston Martin @redbullracing) 👨🏼🎓🏎👏👏👏
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It's International Women in Engineering Day! 👩🔧.We gave female school students the opportunity to attend talks, demos and facility tours aiming to inspire the female engineers of the future! 🙌 .#INWED19 #TransformTheFuture @WESCentenary @WES1919 @YMB1919 @BoeingUK @INWED1919
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Proof of an old Cranfield tradition of handing theses in via the 1st floor! Thanks to Sally for this, filmed by her late father Ilkka 💙💛
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Some awesome aerial footage of our new Digital Aviation Research and Technology Centre. getting closer to completion every day! 🛫 🤩 . Find out more about DARTeC here 👇 .
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We're so excited to have been shortlisted in the ‘Organisational Development and Culture Change’ category in the Universities HR Awards, for our project to define our core values & embed them in the working practices of our university 💛 . #UHRshortlisted
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Come and find out more about the #AstonMartinVisionConcept Volante project @FIAFarnborough #fia18 - we’re in the Innovation Zone, Hall 3! 👋😁
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A momentous two days on Cranfield campus as we watched over 1000 graduates collect their degrees. 🎓. A huge congratulations to our newest members of alumni! 👏. Now it's your turn to go out and show the world the Cranfield way! 🌍 . #CranfieldGrad #OnlyatCranfield
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Fantastic to welcome @etihad to @cranfielddartec - the first airline to join our Digital Aviation Research and Technology Centre consortium ✈️ 🙌 . Read the full story ⤵️ .
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Here are the first student group to fly in our new Saab 340B! What a moment! 🤩 🎉
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Great to welcome a group of students from Kazakhstan for six days of all things aerospace this week! ✈️🇰🇿
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📽️ Yesterday was a great day. 😍. @QAPrizes @GRBraithwaite #QueensAnniversaryPrizes #QAPrizes #HigherEd
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It's been a pleasure to host a visit from the Women in the.Aviation and Aerospace Charter Steering Committee today 🙌. We hope everyone had a great day and enjoyed the tours around campus 👏
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The Vice Chancellor and @terry_prof picking up our Queen’s Anniversary Prize for soil science this morning 😁👏🏅@QAprizes #QueensAnniversaryPrize #soilscience
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Delighted that Pat Symonds, formerly of @RenaultSportF1 & @WilliamsRacing has joined our team as visiting professor
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🚨 The QS @worlduniranking results are in! . We're proud to sit amongst the world’s top universities in nine subject areas, including maintaining our Top 30 global position for Engineering – Mechanical, Aeronautical and Manufacturing. More:. #QSWUR
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1️⃣ 9️⃣ 4️⃣ 6️⃣ ➡️ 2️⃣ 0️⃣ 2️⃣ 1️⃣ . 75 years young today! To mark this special milestone, we took a little look back through the Cranfield archives. 🤩
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A message from Sir Peter Gregson, Vice-Chancellor:. As a Cranfield community, we are appalled at the death of George Floyd in the US, and we strongly oppose all forms of racism and discrimination.
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A very warm welcome to all our new students starting today - you’re now officially part of the Cranfield family! 👋💙💛 #HelloCranfield
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Honorary graduate @Juergen_Maier from @Siemens tells our graduates: "It's an uncertain and disruptive period we're living in, but you have an amazing opportunity. You are the generation that will provide the answers to those challenges." #cranfieldgrad
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Bit damp but still smiling! 🌧️😃 What a great first day we've had at the @CranfieldSAIC 40th anniversary! #CSAIC40
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#OnThisDay last year, our Aerospace Integration Research Centre officially opened! 🙌✈️ Take a look at some of the highlights from the day 🎞 #ThrowbackThursday
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We are pleased to announce that Professor Leon Terry (@terry_prof) has been appointed as Cranfield University’s Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research and Innovation, taking up the post on 1 August 2021. Read more 👉
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We want to say a big thank you to all the special people in our amazing Cranfield community who have worked together to face the challenges of this year. No doubt there are more ahead – so here's a reminder: after clouds, light. #CranfieldCommunity . 📽️
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It’s Welcome Week! Great to see lots of new faces arriving today, can’t wait to meet you (sorry about the weather!) 😁 #HelloCranfield
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‘We are the only university with the combination of an airport, an airline status, our own aircraft, pilots and air navigation service, that’s what makes this agenda incredibly real to us’ - Professor Helen Atkinson concludes the #AviationAndTheEnvironment Conference 👏
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We're underway! Congratulations to our Aerospace students, our first graduates of 2017! #cranfieldgrad 👨🏽🎓👩🏼🎓👏🎊✈️
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🎉Our National Flying Laboratory Centre’s fleet has expanded recently, with the transfer of ownership of our latest plane, a Saab 340B, which will allow the NFLC to take more students on each flight 🛫 . Read more 👉 #aviation #education #avgeek
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🚨 Fantastic news! 🚨. We've been ranked amongst the world’s top universities in the latest QS @Worlduniranking. We now rank 27th in the world for ‘Engineering – Mechanical, Aeronautical and Manufacturing’, a climb of 18 places. Read more 👇 .
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Our new glasshouse looking great all lit up this evening! 😍👌🌿🌅
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Today's the day! The official opening of the Aerospace Integration Research Centre with @RollsRoyceUK @AirbusintheUK & @HEFCE #cranfieldairc
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Who else saw the Tornados fly over Cranfield University? 👀✈️ Let's see your photos/videos 👇 #TornadoFarewell #RAF.
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