University College, Dundee being the University of St Andrews at Dundee.

There was a growing insistence in the 1870s among Dundee's elite that the city both needed and was worthy of an institution of higher education. Early suggestions as to its form included an Institute of Adult Education run by the University of St Andrews or a University School of Medicine. The first proposal for a Dundee college was made in 1874, the market was tested by university extension lectures from St Andrews in 1875-6 and a Royal Commission report of 1878 recommended the establishment of a college affiliated to St Andrews University.

The final form of the college was determined by a deed of endowment of Miss Mary Ann Baxter of Balgavies and John Boyd Baxter of December 1881, by which a founding donation of 125,000 was pledged. University College, Dundee opened on 5 October 1883. Students were allowed to matriculate at St Andrews from 1885. The College was affiliated and partially incorporated into the University of St Andrews in 1897. In 1953 the teachers and students of all parts of the University in Dundee were formed into a society subsequently designated Queen's College. In 1967, in terms of a Royal Charter, Queen's College became the University of Dundee.

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