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Sunday Times ranking 69 (64)

Teaching excellence 42.9%

Student satisfaction 71%

Head teacher ranking 26 (37)

Peer ranking 70= (81)

Research quality 9.8%

A/AS-level points 279

A-levels for entry 79%

Unemployment 5.4%

Firsts and 2:1s 55.6%

Student/staff ratio 18.6:1

Dropout rate 13% (14%)

Undergraduates 10,345 (4,280)

Postgraduates 1,740 (836)

Teaching staff 444

Applications/places 17,856/3,493; 5.1:1 (+7.6%)

Clearing entry 5.6%

Bursaries 45%: up to £1,305

Scholarships AAA: £1,000

EU/overseas 4.3%/4%

Mature 23.1%

State school 94%

Lowest social classes 26%

Low-participation areas 8%

Live in 30% (95%) £65-£97

Sunshine and studying are an agreeable combination and Bournemouth offers students both in spades. The university is resolutely vocational in all it does and it is no surprise, therefore, that Bournemouth has both a high graduate employment rate and good starting salaries that rank its graduates in the top quarter of institutions nationally, with an average starting salary of just over £19,000.

Foundation degrees (Fds) – two-year programmes that can be topped up to a full honours degree – were made for institutions such as Bournemouth, which now has a separate Fds prospectus because there are so many of them. Planned additions for 2008 include creative music production, counselling, aboriculture, garden design and professional culinary arts. Many Fds are delivered at a string of partner colleges across the southwest. All recruits gaining AAA at A-level (or equivalent) will be eligible for a £1,000 scholarship in their first year. About 150 were awarded last year.

Bournemouth is hoping for improved research ratings next year, and appointments have been made with the 2008 assessments in mind.

Students following forensic and media programmes have access to some of the finest facilities in the UK. Last December saw the completion of Rose Cottage, a scenes-of-crime house furnished like a domestic residence, for the teaching of forensic protocols.

Sports facilities are good, with watersports on the doorstep. Coupled with a lively nightlife, it makes a compelling argument for a university that seeks students who know what they want to be and who want a course that will give them the practical skills to get there.

Open days October 20; November 17.

Student view Adam Hyland, students’ union president:

USP We’re lively and sociable.

Worst feature The lack of parking.

Location We have some of the nicest beaches in Europe when it’s not raining.

Social scene Everyone hangs out at the Old Fire Station, our nightclub.

Rated excellent (6) Archeology; business and management; communication and media studies; drama, dance and cinematics; hospitality, leisure, recreation, sport and tourism; nursing.

Degree of student satisfaction 71.0%

History and Archeology 79.6; Technology 79.0; Finance and Accounting 76.5; Management 75.1; Communications and Information studies 74.0; Business 73.9; Media studies 68.7; Computer Science 68.2; Tourism, Transport, Travel and others in Business and Administrative studies 68.1; Law 67.4; Art and Design 64.0; Social Work 54.0

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