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Sunday Times ranking 95 (74)

Teaching excellence 50%

Student satisfaction 74.1%

Head teacher ranking 114= (98=)

Peer ranking 91= (117)

Research quality 18.6%

A/AS-level points 233

A-levels for entry 32.2%

Unemployment 6.6%

Firsts and 2:1s 49.5%

Student/staff ratio 16.5:1

Dropout rate 30% (25%)

Undergraduates 9,715 (8,183) P

ostgraduates 1,069 (1,857)

Teaching staff 554

Applications/places 10,701/ 2,784; 3.8:1 (+0.8%)

Clearing entry 15%

Bursaries £305-£1,845

Scholarships Variable: £50-£5,000

EU/overseas 1.9%/2.3%

Mature 26.6%

State school 98%

Lowest social classes 41%

Low-participation areas 29%

Live in 25% (100%) £36-£76

Atrium, the university’s new campus in Cardiff city centre, opens its doors to undergraduates this month. Home to the Cardiff School of Creative and Cultural Industries, the £35m development houses the teaching of more than 40 vocational courses that include animation, film, television and radio, fashion, design, drama, music technology, and culture and society.

Students will benefit from Atrium’s central location, close to Cardiff’s hub of fast-growing creative industries, while the modish courses seem set to further entrench the city’s increasingly hip image.

Glamorgan, whose Treforest campus is 20 minutes outside Cardiff, has historically offered a quieter and cheaper alternative to the Welsh capital’s inner-city universities, but with its new urban outpost, students can truly get the best of both worlds.

The teaching of nursing has also received a boost, thanks to the Aneurin Bevan building – an addition to the school of care sciences. Named after the Welshman and Labour politician credited as the architect of the NHS, it houses computer labs, teaching space and a restaurant. Undergraduates now have some of the leading clinical practice suites in the UK in which to cut their teeth, such as high-tech mannequins which simulate human behaviour, giving budding nurses vital experience before they are let loose on the real thing in hospitals.

The university has a generous scholarship scheme: all undergraduates regardless of means who have achieved 300 or more Ucas points prior to starting a full-time undergraduate degree get £1,000 each year for three years of study.

Open days October 27; November 17.

Student view Dylan Davies, students’ union president:

USP Our sporting background creates a great community spirit.

Worst feature You will need to be fit because of all the hills.

Location We have the best of both worlds with a small town on one side and Cardiff on the other.

Social scene Our freshers’ fair will get you meeting people straight away.

Rated excellent (5) Accounting and finance; business and management studies; creative writing, drama, theatre and media drama; electrical and electronic engineering; public sector schemes.

Degree of student satisfaction: 74.1%

Law 82.9; History and Archeology 81.7; Nursing 80.4; Mathematical Sciences 79.5; Business 76.5; English-based studies 76.3; Management 75.5; Computer Science 74.9; Sports Science 74.7; Combined 74.1; Finance and Accounting 74.0; Art and Design 73.9; Psychology 72.9; Performing Arts 71.6; Physical Science 71.6; Sociology, Social Policy and Anthropology 69.9; Media studies 67.6; Mechanically-based Engineering 61.3; Other subjects allied to Medicine 55.3; Technology 46.4

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