Schoolhill

Aberdeen AB10 1FR

Tel 01224 262 728

admissions@rgu.ac.uk
www.rgu.ac.uk

Sunday Times ranking 65= (68)

Teaching excellence 36.4%

Student satisfaction n/a

Head teacher ranking 104= (81=)

Peer ranking 81 (93)

Research quality 12.1%

A/AS-level/Highers points 279/313

A-levels/Highers for entry 2%/72%

Unemployment 1.9%

Firsts and 2:1s 56.4%

Student/staff ratio 18.8:1

Dropout rate 18% (14%)

Undergraduates 6,583 (2,234)

Postgraduates 1,178 (2,795)

Teaching staff 464

Applications/places 7,382/1,818; 4.1:1 (+5.5%)

Clearing entry 14%

Bursaries No fees for Scottish students

Scholarships N/a

EU/overseas 10.7%/0.8%

Mature 27%

State school 94%

Lowest social classes 38%

Low-participation areas 17%

Live in 15% (100%) £62-£81

If you want a job, go to the Robert Gordon (RGU). For the second successive year it has fewer than 2% of its graduates still seeking work six months after leaving. Over the past decade, only the University of Surrey comes close to rivalling RGU’s employment record. And former Robert Gordon students don’t get just any old job; more than four in five land graduate-level employment, which, to put it in context, is just 1% fewer than those from Oxford.

RGU has two campuses in Aberdeen. Schoolhill is the administrative hub and home to the schools of engineering, life sciences, pharmacy and computing. It is also where the main student union facilities are based.

The main academic base, however, has transferred to the modern Garthdee campus, two miles away on the banks of the River Dee. This distinctive modern campus, which already houses landmark buildings such as the Norman Foster-designed Aberdeen Business School, is the subject of a £115m investment programme.

Work began in March to create four distinct academic precincts here, covering the main academic disciplines: health, technology, art and business. A spine running the length of campus – not unlike the concept employed at Lancaster University – will link academic areas from technology in the east to art in the west.

Degrees in the offing include fashion management, fashion design, journalism, media studies, multimedia development and business information systems. The university has built its name around art and design, architecture, business, health sciences and engineering, and has forged close links to Aberdeen’s oil and gas companies. These and other business links provide a wealth of work placement opportunities – and chances for permanent employment.

Aberdeen is not just an oil city. With two universities, it is also a student city. Sports facilities are excellent – an £11m sports centre opened at Garthdee in 2005 with a 25m pool and three-storey climbing wall among the highlights. For those who prefer their mountain sports colder and windier, there is nowhere better placed. In winter, mornings in seminars can quite easily give way to afternoons on snowboards.

Open days October 3.

Student view Joshua Capaldi, students’ association president.

USP Most of our courses have a year’s placement, which improves employability.

Worst feature Garthdee campus has all the best facilities.

Location Aberdeen has 15,000 students so it’s geared towards us.

Social scene In halls you will meet your friends for the next four years.

Rated excellent (5) Architecture, architectural technology and landscape architecture; chemistry; dietetics and nutrition; hospitality, leisure, recreation, sport and tourism; librarianship and information management.

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