Greater Manchester M5 4WT

Tel 0161 295 4545

course-enquiries@salford.ac.uk

www.salford.ac.uk

Sunday Times ranking 81= (67)

Teaching excellence 36.8%

Student satisfaction 69.7%

Head teacher ranking 74= (98=)

Peer ranking 67= (53)

Research quality 29.8%

A/AS-level points 269

A-levels for entry 63%

Unemployment 8.3%

Firsts and 2:1s 50%

Student/staff ratio 17.4:1

Dropout rate 25% (19%)

Undergraduates 12,915 (3,235)

Postgraduates 1,463 (2,571)

Teaching staff 836

Applications/places 16,903/3,660; 4.6:1 (+7.8%)

Clearing entry 2.3%

Bursaries 70%: up to £660

Scholarships Various: £500-£3,500

EU/overseas 3.4%/5.5%

Mature 35.5%

State school 97%

Lowest social classes 34%

Low-participation areas 23%

Live in 20% (100%) £53-£85

Salford, the self-styled university of limitless possibilities, has given equal priority to enterprise alongside teaching and research for the past decade, such is its commitment to making the learning here relevant to the outside world.

This confidence is attested to by the opening of a £10m law school this month and the launch last May of Salford Business School. A £22m building for health and social care opened last year. In all, £150m is being invested in new facilities.

Salford was one of the first institutions to develop knowledge transfer partnerships, a government-funded scheme to link graduate placements, senior academics and innovative companies.

With the campus a little more than a mile from the city centre, Manchester Metropolitan University and the University of Manchester are near-neighbours. The three institutions have about 60,000 full-time undergraduates between them, and the city is their playground.

The message about the university and the city is getting through, with applications up this year and barely 2% of places filled through clearing in 2006. However, the projected dropout rate of about one in four is well above the level the funding council expected, even allowing for Salford’s socially diverse intake. More students are admitted to Salford through access courses than to any other university, the proportion rising from 4% of the home intake in 1998 to 10% now.

Open days Contact the university.

Student view Andrew Snowden, president of the students’ union:

USP Student surveys show that staff are seen as friendly and supportive.

Worst feature Our bar burnt down last year, so we have a new one opening this year.

Location A relaxed campus close to Manchester, but cheaper and greener.

Social scene Club nights twice a week to 2am.

Rated excellent (8) Allied health professions; molecular biosciences; music; nursing and midwifery; organismal biosciences; physics and astronomy; politics; town and country landscape and planning (housing).

Degree of student satisfaction: 69.7%

Medical Science and Pharmacy 81.6; Sports Science 80.7; Tourism, Transport, Travel and others in Business and Administrative studies 78.5; Management 77.5; English-based studies 74.6; Computer Science 73.5; Sociology, Social Policy and Anthropology 71.8; Other subjects allied to Medicine 71.5; Art and Design 71.5; European Languages and Area studies 70.6; Finance and Accounting 70.1; Psychology 69.9; Technology 69.5; Business 68.6; History and Archeology 67.2; Performing Arts 63.5; Mechanically-based Engineering 60.1; Media studies 58.6; Social Work 58.4

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