[4] In that year there was a dispute that led to the closure of the Women's Hall and Frances Hughes who was in the eye of the storm to leave the college.

[5] In 1903, the city of Bangor donated a 10-acre site at Penrallt for a new college building, and with funds raised by local people.

[6] During the Second World War paintings from national art galleries were stored in the Prichard-Jones Hall at UCNW to protect them from enemy bombing.

[2] Students from University College London were evacuated to continue their studies in a safer environment at Bangor.

[2] During the 1960s, the university shared in the general expansion of higher education in the UK following the Robbins Report, with many new departments and new buildings.

[2] On 22 November 1965, during construction of an extension to the Department of Electronic Engineering in Dean Street, a crane collapsed on the building.

The three-ton counterweight hit the second-floor lecture theatre in the original building about thirty minutes before it would have been occupied by about 80 first-year students.

[7] In 1967, the Bangor Normal College, now part of the university, was the venue for lectures on Transcendental Meditation by the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi at which The Beatles heard of the death of their manager, Brian Epstein.

Radical students would disturb lectures held in English and paint slogans in Welsh on the walls of the Main Building, resulting some suspensions of these activists.

[10] Under John Hughes' leadership as Vice-Chancellor from 2010–18, there were several new developments including the opening of St Mary's Student Village,[11] and the first-ever collaboration between Wales and China to establish a new college, which involved Bangor University and the Central South University of Forestry and Technology (CSUFT).

In 2016, the university opened Marine Centre Wales,[15] a £5.5m building on the site of the university's Ocean Sciences campus in Menai Bridge, which was financed as part of the £25 million SEACAMS project, partly funded through the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).

[18][19] In addressing its financial challenges, Bangor University also reorganised some subject areas in 2017, which involved introducing new ways of coordinating and delivering adult education and part-time degree programmes,[20] continuing to teach archaeology, but discontinuing the single honours course,[21] and working with Grwp Llandrillo Menai to validate the BA Fine Arts degree.

[29][30] The university announced Hughes' early resignation in December 2018, after allegations of harassment were made against him by his ex-wife and student protests against staff cuts and the closure of the chemistry department.

[35] In September 2020, the university announced a new round of cuts to fill a £13m gap in the budget, saying 200 more jobs (including 80 academic posts) were at risk.

[37] In 2021 the Welsh Government announced plans to expand medical teaching at the university in collaboration with Cardiff University School of Medicine, to establish an independent medical school in North Wales following several years of delivering the franchised C21 North Wales for Cardiff.

It is ultimately governed by a council, which oversees the university's strategic direction, financial health, and policy compliance.

The university's research expertise in the areas of materials science and predictive modelling was enhanced in 2017 through a collaboration with Imperial College London and the formation of the Nuclear Futures Institute at Bangor with the award of £6.5m in funding under the Welsh Government's Ser Cymru programme.

The university-owned £20m Science Park on Anglesey, M-Sparc was completed in March 2018, which will support the development of the region's low-carbon energy sector.

In the National Student Survey, the university has been consistently ranked highly both within Wales and in the UK higher education sector.

[57][58][independent source needed] University Hall, built in red brick a Queen Anne style, was the first substantial block.

Neuadd Reichel, built on the Ffriddoedd Farm site, was designed in a neo-Georgian style by the architect Percy Thomas and was opened in 1942 as a hostel for male students.

[2] Neuadd Rathbone, designed by Colwyn Foulkes and named after the second President of the college, was originally for women students only.

These sabbatical officers are accountable for the actions and decisions of the union and often work closely with members of the Student Council and other boards.

[citation needed] Storm FM is the official student radio station for Bangor University and is one of only three student radio stations in the UK with a long-term FM licence, which authorises broadcasting to a very small area of Bangor, namely the Ffriddoed Road Halls of Residence.

Bangor Rag is an SVB project that collects money for two local and two national charities, which change every academic year and are chosen by the students.

Rag members regularly attend "raids" across the country and assist charities with one-off events throughout the year.