Cowcaddens Road
Glasgow G4 0BA

Tel 0800 027 9171

helpline@gcal.ac.uk

www.gcal.ac.uk

Sunday Times ranking 92= (83=)

Teaching excellence 5.9%

Student satisfaction 72%

Head teacher ranking 119= (81=)

Peer ranking 78= (86)

Research quality 16.5%

A/AS-level/Higher points 291/311

A-levels/Highers for entry 3%/58%

Unemployment 7.6%

Firsts and 2:1s 62.1%

Student/staff ratio 19.1:1

Dropout rate 21% (14%)

Undergraduates 10,476 (3,194)

Postgraduates 1,216 (2,161)

Teaching staff 701

Applications/places 17,283/3,037; 5.7:1 (-4.1%)

Clearing entry Not disclosed

Bursaries No fees for Scottish students

Scholarships 25: up to £5,000

EU/overseas 1.4%/2.6%

Mature 29.4%

State school 97%

Lowest social classes 37%

Low-participation areas 28%

Live in 5% £72-£82

The university location puts students physically at the heart of the capital city that many of them already call “home”. Glasgow Caledonian recruits strongly from the immediate area and the Strathclyde region, so the fact that it has one of the smallest stocks of student rooms (just 660) is not the problem it might otherwise be.

Higher entry grades are achieved by more of the intake than in many of the university’s rivals. Glasgow Caledonian excels in delivering vocational higher education on a grand scale – its business school is the biggest in Scotland and the fourth biggest in the UK. It offers the only honours degree in Britain in risk management, with companies cherry-picking graduates. There is also the only professionally accredited undergraduate journalism degree in Scotland. More building and surveying graduates come from here than at any other UK institution, while the school of health and social care and school of life sciences graduates keep the NHS well stocked.

The death of former chancellor Magnus Magnusson has been marked by a scholarship in his name. Worth up to £5,000, it will be awarded to second-year students upwards engaged in areas of key interest to the late writer and broadcaster; the media, journalism, history, language, literature and the natural environment.

Open days Contact the university.

Student view Jordan Martindale, students’ union president:

USP You will know your lecturers on a first-name basis.

Worst feature Close to town, the temptation can be too great.

Location We have 17,000 students but occupy a small architectural space.

Social scene A new students’ association has everything under one roof.

Rated excellent (2) Chemistry; physiotherapy.

Rate of student satisfaction 72.0%

Medical Science and Pharmacy 80.0; Sociology, Social Policy and Anthropology 79.4; Finance and Accounting 76.7; Other subjects allied to Medicine 75.7; Psychology 73.8; Nursing 73.6; Tourism, Transport, Travel and others in Business and Administrative studies 71.9; Biology and related Sciences 71.7; Media studies 71.5; Business 71.1; Technology 70.8; Architecture, Building and Planning 68.8; Physical Science 68.4; Management 67.2; Mechanically-based Engineering 65.6

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