College (1976), Avery Hill College of Education (1985), Garnett College (1987) and parts of Goldsmiths College and the City of London College (1988) were incorporated.
In 1992, Thames Polytechnic was granted university status by the Major government (together with various other polytechnics) and renamed the University of Greenwich in 1993. On 1 January 1993, the Thames College of Health Care Studies, itself a merger of three local nursing and midwifery training schools, officially merged with the newly designated University of Greenwich, becoming a full faculty of the university.
Formerly a UK government research agency, the Natural Resources Institute (NRI) was incorporated into the university in 1996.
In 2001, the university gave up its historic main campus in the Bathway Quarter in Woolwich, relocating to its current main campus in Greenwich.
In 2018, the University of Greenwich started a partnership with Charlton Athletic F.C.
In 2019, the university's main cafeteria was operated by BaxterStorey, which paid its workers £9.25 per hour without contractual sick pay. After four strike days in October 2019, Greenwich University announced in early January 2020 that all outsourced cafe workers, cleaners and security guards would receive the London living wage of £10.55, in addition to the same sick pay and annual leave as university staff.
In 2026 the university is due to merge with the University of Kent to form the London and South East University Group.
== Organisation ==
Academic disciplines at Greenwich are organised into four faculties which host a range of subject expertise within them:
Faculty of Law, Arts and Social Sciences
Business School
Faculty of Education, Health & Human Sciences
Faculty of Engineering and Science
The university also has a number of professional service directorates that support students and the Faculties.
== Campuses ==
=== Greenwich ===
Greenwich Campus is located mainly in the Old Royal Naval College, into which it moved in the 1990s when the premises were sold by the Royal …
