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 The University of Kent original
name, chosen in 1962, was the University of Kent at Canterbury, reflecting the fact that the campus straddled the boundary between the county borough of Canterbury and Kent County Council. At the
time it was the normal practice for University of Kent to be named after the town or city whose boundaries they were in, with both "University of Kent" and
"University of Canterbury" initially proposed. The name adopted reflected the support of both the city and county authorities, as well
as the existence of the University of Canterbury in New Zealand, which officially opposed the use of a name too similar to its own. The abbreviation UKC became a popular abbreviation for the University
of Kent. Part of the original reasoning for the name disappeared when local government reforms in the 1970s resulted in the Canterbury campus falling entirely within the City of Canterbury,
which no longer has county borough status, and University of Kent the Kent County Council.
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