A study by the university into thousands of donations it received in the 18th and 19th Centuries found some were linked to slave trade profits. It included sums for bursaries and endowments.
In total, the money it received is estimated as having a present day value of between £16.7m and £198m. Donations to the 1866-1880 campaign to build the university's current campus at Gilmorehill found 23 people who gave money had some financial links to the New World slave trade.
It acknowledged that the university received "significant financial gifts and support from people who derived some, or occasionally much, of their wealth from slavery."
Glasgow University Principal Prof Sir Anton Muscatelli said: "The university deeply regrets this association with historical slavery which clashes with our proud history of support for the abolition of both the slave trade and slavery itself."
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