 The university currently has more than 23,000 students.In 1835, the Wolverhampton Mechanics' Institute was founded, and its lineage can be traced via the Wolverhampton and Staffordshire Technical College (1935), to The Polytechnic, Wolverhampton (1969) to today's University of Wolverhampton, given university status in 1992.The main university campus is in the city centre, with other campuses at Compton, and in the nearby towns of Walsall and Telford.