TEACHING
QUALITY
University of Greenwich
98
th
NATIONAL
RANK
RANK
63.3%
FIRSTS
2:1s
2:1s
82%
COMPLETION
RATE
RATE
Key Stats
n/a
59th=
STUDENT
EXPERIENCE
EXPERIENCE
84th=
RESEARCH
QUALITY
QUALITY
121st=
GRADUATE
PROSPECTS
PROSPECTS
Contact details
ADDRESS
Maritime Greenwich Campus,
Old Royal Naval College,
Park Row, Greenwich, SE10 9LS View on map >
Telephone
Email
Website
Open days
September 27 and November 15; October 8 and November 5 (health and social care only)
University Profile
Greenwich’s new Stockwell Street development has just opened as the centrepiece of a £150m investment programme. The university’s own specialists in architecture have contributed to a building dedicated to research and teaching that will include the UK’s largest landscape roofs.
Students will also benefit from a large architecture studio, a model-making workshop, TV and sound studios. Students from across the campus will use the building’s library - which is double the size of the current one, with 370 study spaces - as well as its lecture theatres, seminar rooms and other facilities.
The high-quality digital TV and sound studios will be a major fillip to the university’s work in digital media and creative design. The investment programme includes a new hall of residence nearby, also opening this year, which will provide 358 ensuite rooms for students, as well as a café and gym for residents.
The university already had what it rightly regards as “one of the grandest university settings in the world”. The former Royal Naval College buildings, designed by Sir Christopher Wren, are now part of a World Heritage Site. Wren’s baroque masterpiece
There is also a prize-winning Medway campus, centred on the former Chatham naval base, which has been developed in partnership with Kent and Canterbury Christ Church universities. Greenwich put £20m into the campus, which houses the schools of pharmacy, science and engineering, the Natural Resources Institute, nursing and some business courses.
A joint learning resources centre serves the Chatham Maritime campus and the University of Kent’s neighbouring premises. The campus has exceeded its original target of 6,000 students and now has improved teaching facilities and expanded student services.
Other schools are situated at Avery Hill, a Victorian mansion on the outskirts of southeast London, which boasts a £14m sports and teaching centre with a café, sports hall and 220-seat lecture theatre. There are also laboratories for health courses that replicate NHS wards. The campus contains a student village of 1,300 rooms, alongside teaching accommodation for the social sciences.
The large education faculty is one of the few to offer both primary and secondary teacher training courses. Greenwich is also the only university in the country to have an on-campus strategic relationship with a recruitment firm. It has invested more than £1m in the service, launched in 2013, which aims to place final-year students or recent graduates in full-time, graduate-level jobs which are suited to their skills, as well as finding them high-quality internships and other opportunities along the way. The consultants also provide one-to-one mentoring and advice and coaching sessions such as CV workshops.
Greenwich has set itself some challenging targets: among them are to reach the top 50 in the UK and the top ten in London within five years. Given the targets effectively amount to the same thing, achieving either will be tough from the university’s present position in our rankings. The undergraduate intake was up by 800 in 2013, compensating for an even larger fall when the fees went up in the previous year.
The university achieved good results in the last Research Assessment Exercise, which showed a quarter of the work reaching world-leading or internationally excellent levels. A fifth of the university’s income is from research and consultancy – the largest proportion at any former polytechnic – and it is planned that the total should reach £21m. Greenwich is undertaking an ambitious programme of investment in research by increasing the proportion of research-active staff to 75%.
One in five of the 26,000 students is a postgraduate. Thirteen associated colleges in Kent and London teach the university’s courses, while strong links with institutions in Europe and further afield provide a steady flow of overseas students, as well as exchange opportunities for those at Greenwich.
The 5,000 students from outside the European Union put the university among the top six international recruiters. The university attracts more students than any other UK institution from India and large numbers from Bangladesh, Ghana, Sri Lanka, Mauritius and Nigeria.
A commitment to extending access is reflected in a high proportion of mature students. More than half of the undergraduates come from working-class homes – the biggest proportion of any university. The dropout rate of close to one in seven is about what is expected for a university with the course and student profile of Greenwich.
The university is in the top six in the People and Planet Green League of universities’ environmental performance: the new hall of residence will be powered by biomass and has green roofs on each of its three blocks, along with other sustainable features.
Students will also benefit from a large architecture studio, a model-making workshop, TV and sound studios. Students from across the campus will use the building’s library - which is double the size of the current one, with 370 study spaces - as well as its lecture theatres, seminar rooms and other facilities.
The high-quality digital TV and sound studios will be a major fillip to the university’s work in digital media and creative design. The investment programme includes a new hall of residence nearby, also opening this year, which will provide 358 ensuite rooms for students, as well as a café and gym for residents.
The university already had what it rightly regards as “one of the grandest university settings in the world”. The former Royal Naval College buildings, designed by Sir Christopher Wren, are now part of a World Heritage Site. Wren’s baroque masterpiece
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is being used, with the former Dreadnought Hospital, to teach over half the university’s students, covering humanities, law, business, maths, computing and – appropriately – maritime studies.There is also a prize-winning Medway campus, centred on the former Chatham naval base, which has been developed in partnership with Kent and Canterbury Christ Church universities. Greenwich put £20m into the campus, which houses the schools of pharmacy, science and engineering, the Natural Resources Institute, nursing and some business courses.
A joint learning resources centre serves the Chatham Maritime campus and the University of Kent’s neighbouring premises. The campus has exceeded its original target of 6,000 students and now has improved teaching facilities and expanded student services.
The large education faculty is one of the few to offer both primary and secondary teacher training courses. Greenwich is also the only university in the country to have an on-campus strategic relationship with a recruitment firm. It has invested more than £1m in the service, launched in 2013, which aims to place final-year students or recent graduates in full-time, graduate-level jobs which are suited to their skills, as well as finding them high-quality internships and other opportunities along the way. The consultants also provide one-to-one mentoring and advice and coaching sessions such as CV workshops.
Greenwich has set itself some challenging targets: among them are to reach the top 50 in the UK and the top ten in London within five years. Given the targets effectively amount to the same thing, achieving either will be tough from the university’s present position in our rankings. The undergraduate intake was up by 800 in 2013, compensating for an even larger fall when the fees went up in the previous year.
The university achieved good results in the last Research Assessment Exercise, which showed a quarter of the work reaching world-leading or internationally excellent levels. A fifth of the university’s income is from research and consultancy – the largest proportion at any former polytechnic – and it is planned that the total should reach £21m. Greenwich is undertaking an ambitious programme of investment in research by increasing the proportion of research-active staff to 75%.
One in five of the 26,000 students is a postgraduate. Thirteen associated colleges in Kent and London teach the university’s courses, while strong links with institutions in Europe and further afield provide a steady flow of overseas students, as well as exchange opportunities for those at Greenwich.
The 5,000 students from outside the European Union put the university among the top six international recruiters. The university attracts more students than any other UK institution from India and large numbers from Bangladesh, Ghana, Sri Lanka, Mauritius and Nigeria.
A commitment to extending access is reflected in a high proportion of mature students. More than half of the undergraduates come from working-class homes – the biggest proportion of any university. The dropout rate of close to one in seven is about what is expected for a university with the course and student profile of Greenwich.
The university is in the top six in the People and Planet Green League of universities’ environmental performance: the new hall of residence will be powered by biomass and has green roofs on each of its three blocks, along with other sustainable features.
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Detailed Statistics
PERFORMANCE
PERFORMANCE
CATEGORY
SCORE
RANK
Ranking
-
98 (101)
Student experience
82.3
59th=
Research quality
3
84th=
Ucas entry points
312
87th
Graduate prospects
49
121st=
Firsts and 2:1s
63.3
80th=
Completion rate
82
93rd
Student-staff ratio
21.5:1
109th=
Services/facilities spend (£)
1,403
79th
World ranking
-
701= (701=)
VITAL STATISTICS
Undergraduates
(Full-time)
14,405
Undergraduates
(Part-time)
4,215
Postgraduates
(Full-time)
2,500
Postgraduates
(Part-time)
2,800
Applications/places
32,065/4,950
Applications/places ratio
6.5:1
STUDENT CITIES
Alex Brooks, students’ union president
The gigantic timetable of stuff going on, from meet-and-greets with sports teams and societies to nights out in London.
The sheer amount of tourists clogging up the campus taking pictures of pretty buildings.
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Cost of living
Nightlife
Transport
Culture
ACCOMMODATION
FEES
UK/EU fees
£9,000
Fees (placement year)
£1,000
Fees (international)
£10,350
Finance website
Graduate salaries
£20,398
BURSARIES/SCHOLARSHIPS
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Greenwich Scholarship Programme (GSP) for those with household income below £25K, £1,000 fee waiver, £200 voucher and £800 in-kind support in year 1; conditions apply.
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Access Scholarship for students with household income below £25K and not receiving a GSP award, £500 for university services in year 1. For all other Home/EU students, £200 university services in year 1.
SPORT
Sports points/rank
53.5, 108th
Sport website
Student satisfaction
93.0%
91.0%
90.4%
88.7%
87.7%
87.3%
87.0%
85.2%
84.9%
83.7%
83.3%
83.3%
83.1%
81.1%
79.1%
78.0%
77.2%
76.9%
76.7%
76.5%
65.7%