TEACHING
QUALITY
University of Glasgow
26
th
NATIONAL
RANK
RANK
74.5%
FIRSTS
2:1s
2:1s
87.4%
COMPLETION
RATE
RATE
Key Stats
n/a
26th=
STUDENT
EXPERIENCE
EXPERIENCE
20th
RESEARCH
QUALITY
QUALITY
14th
GRADUATE
PROSPECTS
PROSPECTS
Contact details
ADDRESS
University Avenue, Glasgow, G12 8QQ View on map >
Telephone
Email
Website
Open days
October 25 (Glasgow); September 27 and November 8 (Dumfries); November 11 (postgraduate)
University Profile
Glasgow has bought 15 acres of land around the city’s Western Infirmary, which closes in 2015, to reshape the university in a way that it describes as the third major staging point in its 560-year history.
Consultation is still under way on how the site will be used, but £80m has been set aside for new buildings and another £55m for refurbishments. Not all of the developments will be complete before 2015’s entrants have left the university, but the moves will allow Glasgow to expand in the longer term. Applications were 12.5% up in 2013, enabling the university to take an extra 600 undergraduates. Its latest strategy talks of extending the university’s global reach to become a truly international university with a multi-cultural community of students and staff.
It is already on the verge of the top 50 in the QS World University Rankings and played a full part in Glasgow’s Commonwealth Games, adding a cultural dimension. The university’s Commonwealth Scholarship scheme celebrated the games by offering awards for students from developing countries.
Glasgow’s domestic ranking is buoyed by its strong performance in the annual
With almost two-thirds of the students coming from Scotland – many from Glasgow and the surrounding area – the university benefits more than some of its rivals from the policy of free tuition for Scottish students. However, more than a quarter are from outside the UK. They seem to enjoy the experience, having voted Glasgow fourth in the UK and top among Russell Group universities in i–graduate’s independent International Student Barometer.
The university opened its first overseas branch in 2011, as part of an agreement with the Singapore Institute of Technology (SIT) to deliver joint engineering and mechatronics degree programmes. Students will complete three years at one of SIT’s partner polytechnics before finishing their studies at the University of Glasgow Singapore. The Centre for International Development, which was the first of its kind in Scotland and the largest in the UK, has helped to secure more than £20m of research income.
Glasgow enjoys the rare distinction of having been established by Papal Bull, and began its existence in the chapterhouse of Glasgow Cathedral in 1451. Since 1871 it has been based on the Gilmorehill campus in the city’s fashionable West End, with its 104 listed buildings – more than any other British university.
The Veterinary School and outdoor sports facilities are located at Garscube, four miles away, and there is also a campus at Dumfries, which is taking liberal arts and teacher education degrees to southwest Scotland. The university has spent £7.5m in five years improving teaching and learning facilities and plans to spend a further £3.5m by 2017. In addition, more than £13m has been committed to an extension of sporting and social facilities, which will be complete by 2015.
Glasgow is no stranger to innovation: it was the first university in Britain to have a school of engineering, for example, and the first in Scotland to have a computer. It has now appointed Scotland’s first Gaelic language officer and the country’s first chair of Gaelic.
More than half of the work submitted for the last Research Assessment Exercise was considered world-leading or internationally excellent, and the university finished in the UK’s top ten in 18 subject areas. The Boyd Orr Centre for Population and Ecosystem Health was awarded a Queens Anniversary Prize in 2014.
The latest development, opening in 2015, is the £20m Stratified Medicine Scotland Innovation Centre (SMS-IC) at the new South Glasgow Hospitals Campus, which involves a consortium of universities, NHS Scotland and industry partners.
Almost half of the university’s applications are for arts or sciences degrees, rather than specific subjects, reflecting the popularity of a flexible system that allows students to delay choosing a specialism until the end of their second year.
The university operates a number of access initiatives, including the Top Up programme, which has been working with schools in the West of Scotland since 1999, and the Talent Scholarships, which are worth £1,000 a year to 60 academically able entrants who could face financial difficulties in taking up a place at Glasgow. Nevertheless, fewer than a quarter of the undergraduates are from working-class homes.
The Club 21 programme provides students with paid work experience placements in the UK and overseas. It involves more than 100 employers from Santander to T-Mobile, some of whom sponsor undergraduates at £1,000 a year.
Most students like the combination of campus and city life, with the added bonus that Glasgow has been rated among the most cost-effective cities in which to study. Undergraduates have the choice of two students’ unions, plus a sports union supporting more than 40 clubs and activities. New student union facilities, including a nightclub and four café-bars will be ready during 2015.
Consultation is still under way on how the site will be used, but £80m has been set aside for new buildings and another £55m for refurbishments. Not all of the developments will be complete before 2015’s entrants have left the university, but the moves will allow Glasgow to expand in the longer term. Applications were 12.5% up in 2013, enabling the university to take an extra 600 undergraduates. Its latest strategy talks of extending the university’s global reach to become a truly international university with a multi-cultural community of students and staff.
It is already on the verge of the top 50 in the QS World University Rankings and played a full part in Glasgow’s Commonwealth Games, adding a cultural dimension. The university’s Commonwealth Scholarship scheme celebrated the games by offering awards for students from developing countries.
Glasgow’s domestic ranking is buoyed by its strong performance in the annual
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National Student Survey (NSS), in stark contrast to its big city rival, Edinburgh. Dentistry, zoology, geology, and molecular biology, biophysics and biochemistry achieved perfect 100% satisfaction scores in this year’s NSS. Satisfaction scores for dentistry, geology and teacher training were higher than in any other UK university.With almost two-thirds of the students coming from Scotland – many from Glasgow and the surrounding area – the university benefits more than some of its rivals from the policy of free tuition for Scottish students. However, more than a quarter are from outside the UK. They seem to enjoy the experience, having voted Glasgow fourth in the UK and top among Russell Group universities in i–graduate’s independent International Student Barometer.
The university opened its first overseas branch in 2011, as part of an agreement with the Singapore Institute of Technology (SIT) to deliver joint engineering and mechatronics degree programmes. Students will complete three years at one of SIT’s partner polytechnics before finishing their studies at the University of Glasgow Singapore. The Centre for International Development, which was the first of its kind in Scotland and the largest in the UK, has helped to secure more than £20m of research income.
The Veterinary School and outdoor sports facilities are located at Garscube, four miles away, and there is also a campus at Dumfries, which is taking liberal arts and teacher education degrees to southwest Scotland. The university has spent £7.5m in five years improving teaching and learning facilities and plans to spend a further £3.5m by 2017. In addition, more than £13m has been committed to an extension of sporting and social facilities, which will be complete by 2015.
Glasgow is no stranger to innovation: it was the first university in Britain to have a school of engineering, for example, and the first in Scotland to have a computer. It has now appointed Scotland’s first Gaelic language officer and the country’s first chair of Gaelic.
More than half of the work submitted for the last Research Assessment Exercise was considered world-leading or internationally excellent, and the university finished in the UK’s top ten in 18 subject areas. The Boyd Orr Centre for Population and Ecosystem Health was awarded a Queens Anniversary Prize in 2014.
The latest development, opening in 2015, is the £20m Stratified Medicine Scotland Innovation Centre (SMS-IC) at the new South Glasgow Hospitals Campus, which involves a consortium of universities, NHS Scotland and industry partners.
Almost half of the university’s applications are for arts or sciences degrees, rather than specific subjects, reflecting the popularity of a flexible system that allows students to delay choosing a specialism until the end of their second year.
The university operates a number of access initiatives, including the Top Up programme, which has been working with schools in the West of Scotland since 1999, and the Talent Scholarships, which are worth £1,000 a year to 60 academically able entrants who could face financial difficulties in taking up a place at Glasgow. Nevertheless, fewer than a quarter of the undergraduates are from working-class homes.
The Club 21 programme provides students with paid work experience placements in the UK and overseas. It involves more than 100 employers from Santander to T-Mobile, some of whom sponsor undergraduates at £1,000 a year.
Most students like the combination of campus and city life, with the added bonus that Glasgow has been rated among the most cost-effective cities in which to study. Undergraduates have the choice of two students’ unions, plus a sports union supporting more than 40 clubs and activities. New student union facilities, including a nightclub and four café-bars will be ready during 2015.
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Detailed Statistics
PERFORMANCE
PERFORMANCE
CATEGORY
SCORE
RANK
Ranking
-
26 (25)
Student experience
83.9
26th=
Research quality
24.3
20th
Ucas entry points
487
11th
Graduate prospects
79.9
14th
Firsts and 2:1s
74.5
32nd
Completion rate
87.4
51st=
Student-staff ratio
15.2:1
32nd=
Services/facilities spend (£)
2,131
21st
World ranking
-
55= (51)
VITAL STATISTICS
Undergraduates
(Full-time)
16,375
Undergraduates
(Part-time)
3,635
Postgraduates
(Full-time)
4,900
Postgraduates
(Part-time)
1,725
Applications/places
34,110/5,135
Applications/places ratio
6.6:1
STUDENT CITIES
Owen Martin, students’ union president
Everyone was outgoing without being intimidating; I’ve made friends for life.
Glasgow’s reputation for crime, but it doesn’t affect the students in our West End bubble and the city in general is friendly.
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Cost of living
Nightlife
Transport
Culture
ACCOMMODATION
Places in accommodation
3,457
Accommodation costs
£85-£139
Catered costs
£152-£169
Accommodation contact
FEES
Scots/EU fees
£0-£1,820
RUK fees
£9,000 (£27,000 max)
Fees (international)
£13,750-£17,250
Fees (international, medical)
£17,250-£31,250
Finance website
Graduate salaries
£23,408
BURSARIES/SCHOLARSHIPS
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Talent Scholarships of £1,000 a year for Scottish students facing financial difficulties in taking up a place.
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For RUK students, Welcome bursary of £1,000 in year 1. Tuition fee waiver of £2,000 a year when household income below £20K, £1,000 (£20K–£30K), £500 (£30K–42.6K). Scholarship of £1,000 a year for students with at least AAB at A Level or equivalent and household income below £42.6K.
SPORT
Sports points/rank
1131.5, 26th
Sport website
Student satisfaction
98.4%
95.6%
90.0%
89.9%
88.9%
88.2%
87.8%
87.7%
87.5%
86.7%
86.6%
86.2%
85.9%
85.9%
84.2%
83.9%
83.3%
82.7%
82.0%
80.3%
80.3%
80.1%
80.0%
79.9%
79.7%
79.4%
78.1%
77.5%
76.0%
74.9%
71.4%
70.4%