Salford
Greater Manchester
M5 4WT
Tel 0161 295 4545
course-enquiries@salford.ac.uk
www.salford.ac.uk
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PERFORMANCE

Sunday Times ranking 73 (76)

Student satisfaction 72%
Head teacher ranking 83 (107=)
Peer ranking 59= (69=)
Research quality 59.1%
A-level/Higher points 247
Unemployment 11.9%
Firsts and 2:1s 55.1%
Student/staff ratio 18.6:1
Dropout rate 21.2% (18.5%)

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VITAL STATISTICS

Undergraduates 12,385 (3,267)
Postgraduates 1,620 (1,909)
Teaching staff 856
Applications/places 18,763/4,561; 4.1:1 (+2.6%)
Clearing entry 2.3%
Live in 15% (100%) £59-£95
Bursaries 94%: £320
Scholarships AAB: £1,000

SOCIAL MIX

EU/overseas 3.1%/3%
Mature 36.4%
State school 96.6%
Lowest social classes 38.6%
Low-participation areas 18.3%

The University of Salford is in the thick of the town’s flagship regeneration project MediaCityUK. The development at Salford Quays will be the new home of five BBC departments from 2011, and the university has leased 103,000 sq ft of building in which to house facilities, garnering £8m of funding from the Higher Education Funding Council for England into the bargain.

At the main Peel Park campus, plans are afoot for a £47m home for the school of media, music and performance, which should further help students involved in making programmes for the Manchester television station, Channel M, which broadcasts their work to homes all over the city and across Europe.

Halls of residence are undergoing a facelift, too, and all full-time first-years are guaranteed a room in university accommodation if they want one.

Salford comfortably beats all its widening participation benchmarks, recruiting heavily from the lower social classes and areas with low participation rates in higher education. With a high proportion of mature students on roll, less than half the intake hold A-levels as their main passport for entry. Student satisfaction rates, while better than near-neighbour Manchester, could be higher; our analysis of the national student survey ranks Salford 103.

A flat-rate bursary of £320 is given to all students who qualify for the full government maintenance grant. In September 2008 this accounted for 94% of the undergraduate intake. And there are academic scholarships worth £1,000 a year for all students who gain AAB at A-level or equivalent.

STUDENT VIEW

Matthew Webber, students’ union president:

First impressions There’s so much going on. It’s a fun and exciting place.
Worst feature Assessment and feedback has room for improvement.
Facilities A great mix of old and new.
Deal clincher I came here thanks to a word-of-mouth recommendation. All the staff are friendly and know what they’re doing.

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).

Student satisfaction
Finance and Accounting 83.8; Medical Science and Pharmacy 80.6; Nursing 80.1; Physical Science 80; European Languages and Area studies 79.9; Sports Science 79.4; Tourism, Transport, Travel and others in Business and Administrative studies 77.9; English-based studies 76.1; Business 75.5; Other subjects allied to Medicine 75; Technology 74.4; Mechanically-based Engineering 74.1; History and Archaeology 73.7; Management 73; Biology and related Sciences 72.8; Politics 72.8; Civil, Chemical and other Engineering 72.7; Art and Design 72.5; Other Languages and Area studies 72.1; Sociology, Social Policy and Anthropology 70.9; Other Creative Arts 70; Communications and Information studies 68.7; Architecture, Building and Planning 68.5; Law 68.5; Computer Science 67.2; Agriculture and related subjects 66.8; Psychology 63.9; Performing Arts 63.3; Media studies 61.3; Social Work 57.5

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