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The Department of Librarianship had its origins in the Scottish School of Librarianship, which was established under the auspices of the Glasgow and West of Scotland Commercial College (antecedent institution of the University of Strathclyde) in 1946. The first Professor of Librarianship was appointed in 1970. In 1985, the Department of Librarianship merged with the Department of Office Organisation to form the Department of Information Science.

The Department of Marketing was established in 1971.

The Department of Mathematics had its origins in 1825 with the appointment at Anderson's Institution (antecedent of the University of Strathclyde) of the institution's first permanent professor of mathematics. It was not until around 1890, however, that the department itself formally came into existence.

In August 1986, the Department of Mechanical and Offshore Engineering was formed from the merger of the Department of Dynamics and Control, the Department of Mechanics of Materials, the Department of Thermodynamics and the Department of Ship and Marine Technology. In 1987, it merged with the Department of Chemical and Process Engineering and the Department of Metallurgy and adopted the new title Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering.

The Department of Mechanical Engineering was formed in 1964 on the establishment of the University of Strathclyde when the former Royal College of Science and Technolgy Department of Mechanical, Civil and Chemical Engineering was split into three departments, one of which was Mechanical Engineering.

In 1970, several units within the department, namely the Bioengineering Unit, Dynamics and Control, Engineering Design, Production Engineering, Mechanics of Materials and Thermodynamics and Mechanics of Fluids, became independent departments or units.

The Department of Mechanics of Materials was absorbed into the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering in 1986.

Metallurgy was introduced to the curriculum of the Chemistry Department of the College of Science and Arts, Glasgow (an antecedent of the Glasgow and West of Scotland Technical College) in 1884. In 1887, following the formation of the Glasgow and West of Scotland Technical College (an antecedent of the University of Strathclyde), a Department of Metallurgy was established.

In 1987, the Department of Metallurgy merged with the Department of Chemical Engineering and the Department of Mechanical and Offshore Engineering to form the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering.

The Department of Mineral Resources Engineering had its origins in 1859 with the establishment of the Glasgow School of Mines in Anderson's College (antecedent to Strathclyde University). The School was an independent institution governed by a separate committee; however, it was short lived and closed in 1864.

By the 1880s, classes in mining had resumed and day classes, leading to a Diploma in Mining, began in 1887 at the Glasgow and West of Scotland Technical College (antecedent to Strathclyde University). This was followed in 1909, with the creation of a Chair in Mining Engineering and the appointment of the first Professor of Mining.

In 1932, the Royal Technical College, Glasgow (successor to the Glasgow and West of Scotland Technical College) and the University of Glasgow reached an agreement to amalgamate their two departments of mining and form a Joint Chair, with teaching and research centered at the College. This arrangement continued until 1967, when the agreement between the two insitutions was terminated by mutual consent.

Thereafter, the Department of Mining Engineering was renamed the Department of Mining and Petroleum Engineering in 1980, and was again renamed the Department of Mineral Resources Engineering in 1988. A world recession in the demand for energy and raw materials saw admissions decline and the Department was ultimately closed in 1992.

The Department of Pharmacy was formed from the amalgamation of the Department of Pharmaceutics and the Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry in October 1981.

The Department of Physics originated in 1796 with the appointment at Anderson’s Institution (an antecedent of the University of Strathclyde) of the first Professor of Natural Philosophy. It was not until later, however, that a department formally came into existence. From at least 1899, there are references to the Department of Natural Philosophy. In 1968 the department split into the Department of Natural Philosophy (in 1983 renamed the Department of Physics) and the Department of Applied Physics. The two were reunited as the Department of Physics and Applied Physics in 1986. In 2002 the department was renamed the Department of Physics.