Cowcaddens Road
Glasgow
G4 0BA
Tel 0141 331 3000
admissions@gcal.ac.uk
www.gcal.ac.uk
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PERFORMANCE

Sunday Times ranking 63 (81)

Student satisfaction 75.5%
Head teacher ranking 87= (92=)
Peer ranking 88= (76=)
Research quality 50.2%
A-level/Higher points 325
Unemployment 12.8%
Firsts and 2:1s 66.5%
Student/staff ratio 21:1
Dropout rate 15.9% (13.3%)

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• The Times University Guide table

VITAL STATISTICS

Undergraduates 10,292 (3,791)
Postgraduates 1,337 (1,350)
Teaching staff 648
Applications/places 14,685/3,304; 4.4:1 (+4.3%)
Clearing entry 11%
Live in 12.5% (75%) £73-£85
Bursaries No fees for Scottish students
Scholarships None

SOCIAL MIX

EU/overseas 1.6%/3%
Mature 33.1%
State school 97.4%
Lowest social classes 34.6%

Glasgow Caledonian University makes big gains in our league table for the second successive year, benefiting from the increased prominence given to the outcome of the national student survey, where it ranks 61=, and the removal of increasingly out-of-date teaching assessments (in which it performed poorly) from our league table calculations.

The university offers a strongly vocational brand of higher education, which includes Scotland’s only BSc in optometry, and the UK’s only degree in risk management. New subjects added this year include computer security, 3-D computer animation, and radiotherapy and oncology.

Facilities on the city centre campus include the state-of-the-art Saltire Centre and its library. Students can use one of 400 computers or 250 laptops with a wireless internet connection. Open-plan areas are designed for group work, and there is space for individual study. Student services including careers guidance, finance and the chaplaincy are also based there.

To help ease freshers into university life, the Effective Learning Service lays on workshops offering practical study advice, such as how to take helpful lecture notes and prepare for exams.

Arc, the campus’s recreation and health centre, provides a distraction from study, with its two gyms, range of classes including yoga and badminton, and holistic treatments. A multi-purpose games hall is used for five-a-side football and there is also a hall used for martial arts and classes.

With an improved research profile acknowledged by last year’s research assessments (RAE), the university is building on its strengths. This year it has established an Institute for Health and Wellbeing and an Institute for Society and Social Justice, with the aim of working with the public and private sectors and attracting grants.

RAE results showed 60% of allied health provisions research work submitted was world-leading or internationally excellent.

Glasgow Caledonian is a leading supplier of graduates into the health service, which partly accounts for the above-average numbers gaining graduate-level jobs when they leave (73.3%). However, it will want to reverse the jump in outright graduate unemployment from 5.1% to 12.8% this year, a bottom 10 ranking.

STUDENT VIEW

Stephanie Pitticas, students’ union president:

First impressions You will be inundated with new friends.
Worst feature Not enough hours in the day to go to lectures, study and socialise.
Facilities Our library, the Saltire Centre, is brimming with technology and books.
Deal clincher You’re in the centre of town and have easy access to everything.

Rated excellent (2)
Chemistry; physiotherapy.

Student satisfaction
Nursing 88; Social Work 84.1; Biology and related Sciences 82.3; Sociology, Social Policy and Anthropology 81.4; Finance and Accounting 78.5; Medical Science and Pharmacy 75.8; Psychology 75.6; Tourism, Transport, Travel and others in Business and Administrative studies 75.1; Other subjects allied to Medicine 73.9; Management 73; Media studies 72.4; Law 72.1; Business 72; Architecture, Building and Planning 71.9; Physical Science 70.3; Art and Design 68.5; Technology 62.4

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