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PERFORMANCE

Sunday Times ranking 17 (14)

Student satisfaction 81.9%
Head teacher ranking 19 (46=)
Peer ranking 21= (30=)
Research quality 65.4%
A-level/Higher points 390
Unemployment 7.9%
Firsts and 2:1s 79.4%
Student/staff ratio 17.5:1
Dropout rate 3.9% (7.7%)
World ranking 237=

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VITAL STATISTICS

Undergraduates 10,012 (638)
Postgraduates 2,770 (1,287)
Teaching staff 615
Applications/places 23,784/3,923; 6.1:1 (+17.1%)
Clearing entry 3.4%
Live in 45% £69-£172
Bursaries 34%: £750-£1,500
Scholarships Various: £2,000-£5,000

SOCIAL MIX

EU/overseas 3.3%/9.6%
Mature 9.2%
State school 71%
Lowest social classes 17.4%
Low-participation areas 3.4%

Exeter makes one of the best offers to students in the UK and its students know it, ranking the university ninth overall (sixth among mainstream multi-faculty institutions) in the UK in the annual national student survey.

Already excellent facilities are being boosted by £270m of investment in the next three years, rising to £450m by 2020. This includes £130m on new student residences on what is widely acknowledged to be one of the most beautiful campuses in Britain, occupying a hillside site a 15-minute walk from the city centre.

There is a new £25m business school and £18m is being invested in biosciences. With its own medical school since 2003, Exeter is spending a further £80m in medicine, science and engineering over the next three years. All this translates into applications rising by 17% this year: Exeter is a university on the up.

Heavy investment in staffing — with 182 new appointments in the past two years — has also paid dividends. Research income was up 26% to £48m in 2007-8 and the research assessment exercise published last December found evidence of world-leading work in all 31 subjects entered. In half of the subjects, Exeter ranked among the top 10 institutions nationally.

Exeter attracts some of the best qualified school-leavers, who continue their academic progress to place the university in the top 10 nationally for the proportion of firsts and 2:1s awarded. Almost four in five students achieve this benchmark.

The most gifted (gaining at least AAA at A-level) can apply for one of 10 vice-chancellor’s excellence scholarships awarded annually worth £5,000 a year. To qualify, students must also demonstrate exceptional personal achievement.

STUDENT VIEW

Richard Stearn, students’ guild president:

First impressions There’s something for everyone here.
Worst feature There’s a lot of building work which will be going on next year.
Facilities Work on a library refit and more learning space starts soon.
Deal clincher Exeter is a small city, we’re within striking distance of the beach. People feel at home here.

Rated excellent (21)
Allied health professions (diagnostic radiography); archeology; business and management; classics and ancient history; computer science; drama, dance and cinematics; economics; education (continuing professional development); English; French; geography; German; Italian; maths, statistics and operational research; molecular biosciences; organismal biosciences; physics and astronomy; politics; psychology; teacher training; theology and religious studies.

Student satisfaction
Sports Science 90; Philosophy, Theology and Religious studies 88.7; Finance and Accounting 86.6; English-based studies 85.8; Physical Science 84.4; Politics 84.2; Law 83.5; Business 83.5; Agriculture and related subjects 83.4; History and Archaeology 83.2; Mathematical Sciences 83.1; Sociology, Social Policy and Anthropology 83; Management 82.9; Psychology 82.8; Performing Arts 82.5; Medicine and Dentistry 82.2; Human and Social Geography 81.8; Physical Geography and Environmental Science 81.5; Other subjects allied to Medicine 81.1; European Languages and Area studies 79.9; Mechanically-based Engineering 79.5; Civil, Chemical and other Engineering 79.3; Economics 78.9; Biology and related Sciences 77.3; Education studies 75.5; Combined 74.6; Computer Science 69.2; Technology 67.6; Other Creative Arts 65.5

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