Headington Campus
Gipsy Lane
Oxford OX3 0BP

Tel 01865 483 040

admissions@brookes.ac.uk

www.brookes.ac.uk

Sunday Times ranking 53 (54=)

Teaching excellence 71.4%

Student satisfaction 75.2%

Head teacher ranking 47= (42)

Peer ranking 50 (50)

Research quality 23.4%

A/AS-level points 293

A-levels for entry 59%

Unemployment 7.3%

Firsts and 2:1s 52.9%

Student/staff ratio 17.7:1

Dropout rate 12% (15%)

Undergraduates 10,899 (2,812)

Postgraduates 2,056 (2,960)

Teaching staff 678

Applications/places 22,097/3,247; 6.8:1 (+6.3%)

Clearing entry 5%

Bursaries 33%: £200-£1,500

Scholarships 20: £2,000

EU/overseas 6%/10.1%

Mature 26.6%

State school 71%

Lowest social classes 37%

Low-participation areas 7%

Live in 30% (97%) £79-£124

Oxford Brookes is once again the leading modern university in our league table. Having achieved this seven times in our 10 years of publication, this is no fluke. Its success is founded on strong teaching; no other modern university and few older universities can rival the 24 subjects rated excellent for teaching quality.

Its location and near neighbour are huge draws, particularly to privately educated school-leavers who account for 29% of recruits, more than double the expected level. Oxford Brookes works hard to diversify its intake, evidenced by more than a third entering from the lower social classes.

Students are based on one of three campuses. Headington is closest to the city centre and the biggest. Wheatley, on the outskirts of the city, is home to the business and technology schools. The third site is Harcourt Hill, two miles from the city centre, which houses the teacher trainees.

The university offers a wide range of combined honours courses, alongside its 80 single honours options. Degrees admitting their first intake this month include osteopathy, film studies, information technology management for business, and a BSc in exercise, nutrition and health. Graduates’ starting salaries are £900 higher than the average (at £19,400 per annum) and more than two-thirds go into graduate-level jobs.

Open days October 13.

Student view Antoinette Kyuchukova, students’ union president:

USP The supportive staff.

Worst feature The difficulty of finding good-quality and affordable private accommodation.

Location On the outskirts of Oxford, so there is a good balance between the world of academia and the world of fun.

Social scene The Venue, our entertainments centre, is used by people from all over Oxford.

Rated excellent (24) Allied health professions (specialist care, community practice); anatomy and physiology; anthropology; art and design (fine art); building; business and management; economics; English; environmental studies; French; geography; history of art, architecture and design; hospitality, leisure, recreation, sport and tourism; land and property management; law; maths, statistics and operational research; modern languages; molecular biosciences; nursing and midwifery; organismal biosciences; politics; psychology; theology and religious studies; town and country planning and landscape.

Degree of student satisfaction: 75.2%

Philosophy, Theology and Religious studies 82.9; Social Work 82.6; Teacher Training 81.7; Tourism, Transport, Travel and others in Business and Administrative studies 79.7; Sociology, Social Policy and Anthropology 79.3; History and Archeology 78.6; English-based studies 78.2; Performing Arts 77.6; Management 77.1; Education studies 76.2; Politics 74.7; Finance and Accounting 74.5; Architecture, Building and Planning 74.2; Psychology 72.3; Human and Social Geography 71.1; European Languages and Area studies 70.6; Biology and related Sciences 70.0; Law 69.7; Economics 69.5; Physical Geography and Environmental Science 69.4; Computer Science 69.1; Other Languages and Area studies 66.4; Art and Design 64.8

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