Preston PR1 2HE

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Sunday Times ranking 73 (79)

Teaching excellence 56.5%

Student satisfaction 74.7%

Head teacher ranking 61= (78=)

Peer ranking 100 (82)

Research quality 12.2%

A/AS-level points 260

A-levels for entry 40%

Unemployment 4.8%

Firsts and 2:1s 47.4%

Student/staff ratio 17.7:1

Dropout rate 19% (19%)

Undergraduates 16,113 (8,561)

Postgraduates 1,090 (3,086)

Teaching staff 1,011

Applications/places 19,199 (4,813); 4:1 (-0.2%)

Clearing entry 6%

Bursaries 90%: £1,000

Scholarships 100: £2,000

EU/overseas 3%/1.1%

Mature 28.8%

State school 98%

Lowest social classes 37%

Low-participation areas 20%

Live in 11% (43%) £44-£75

The transfer of UCLan’s small Penrith and Carlisle campuses last month to the new University of Cumbria concentrates all activity on Preston, which becomes the hub for UCLan’s 30,000 full and part-time students. With under half of entrants holding A-levels as their passport to a place, UCLan is committed to widening access, with large proportions of students drawn from nontraditional and working-class backgrounds. About 40% of students study part-time, often juggling family and jobs. These help push the number of students recruited from the northwest to beyond 70%. UCLan is also popular with entrants from Northern Ireland.

This month should see the completion of the £15m Media Factory, which will house facilities for music, dance, theatre, film, photography and media studies. A department of dentistry within the faculty of health is also due to open. This accent on vocational education typifies UCLan’s approach to higher education. Degrees to be offered from this year include public relations, creative fashion knitwear, sports technology (specialising in cycling or tennis), motorsport engineering and computing.

Tuition fees, likely to be in the region of £3,140 next year, will be offset in most instances by a £1,000 Ones to Watch scholarship, payable annually to the 90% of students drawn from homes where the principal earner brings in less than £60,000 per annum. It is one of the most inclusive schemes going and is augmented by a further 100 excellence scholarships, worth up to £2,000 over the course of a degree, for those showing outstanding potential.

Coupled with Preston’s reputation as being one of the cheapest places to live in the UK, the bursary scheme considerably enhances UCLan’s appeal.

Sports facilities are outstanding with fine indoor provision on the Preston campus (the Foster Sports Centre) supplemented by the outdoor £12m Preston Sports Arena two miles away. UCLan is in the process of acquiring a centre in Llangollen in north Wales that will provide outdoor education courses and training.

Open days October 20; November 24; June 14, 2008.

Student view Ed Walker, students’ union officer:

USP You have all the facilities of a city right next door.

Worst feature Many students go home at the weekends.

Location Great rail links to the rest of the country.

Social scene A lot of big-name bands play at our students’ union.

Rated excellent (13) Allied health professions; American studies; art and design; business and management; communication and media studies (journalism); education; hospitality, leisure, recreation, sport and tourism; linguistics; molecular biosciences; nursing and midwifery; organismal biosciences; politics; psychology.

Degree of student satisfaction: 74.7%

Finance and Accounting 85.9; Physical Geography and Environmental Science 82.2; Sports Science 80.6; History and Archeology 79.9; Physical Science 79.4; Computer Science 78.5; Law 78.5; Technology 78.5; Sociology, Social Policy and Anthropology 78.1; Other Languages and Area studies 76.9; Psychology 76.0; Business 75.1; English-based studies 74.4; Mechanically-based Engineering 74.1; Education studies 73.6; Other subjects allied to Medicine 72.9; Biology and related Sciences 70.9; Agriculture and related subjects 70.0; Social Work 69.0; Art and Design 68.5; Performing Arts 67.9; Communications and Information studies 67.5; Architecture, Building and Planning 61.6; Other Creative Arts 56.8

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