Keele University is a campus university near Newcastle-under-Lyme in Staffordshire, England. Founded in 1949 as an experimental college dedicated to a broad curriculum and interdisciplinary study, Keele is most notable for pioneering the dual honours degree in Britain. The University occupies a 620 acres (250 ha) rural campus close to the village of Keele and houses a science park and a conference centre, making it the largest single-site campus university in the UK. The University's School of Medicine and School of Nursing and Midwifery also operate their clinical courses from a separate campus at the University Hospital of North Staffordshire in Hartshill, Stoke-on-Trent. There are about 5,600 full-time students at Keele, 1,300 part-time students and about 4,000 on professional and short courses. The university intends to increase numbers to 10,000 full-time students. Keele University was established in 1949 as the University College of North Staffordshire, at the initiative of A D Lindsay, then Professor of Philosophy and Master of Balliol College, Oxford.