赫爾大學並唔係算嚴格的紅磚大學，因為發展並非在維多利亞或愛德華時代的公民大學運動之中。多數人稱之為白磚大學。
The University of Hull is not a strict red-brick university because it was not developed in the midst of the Victorian or Edwardian civic university movement. Most people call it a white brick university.