TEACHING
QUALITY
Loughborough University
13
th
NATIONAL
RANK
RANK
78%
FIRSTS
2:1s
2:1s
93.5%
COMPLETION
RATE
RATE
Key Stats
n/a
8th=
STUDENT
EXPERIENCE
EXPERIENCE
18th=
RESEARCH
QUALITY
QUALITY
13th
GRADUATE
PROSPECTS
PROSPECTS
Contact details
ADDRESS
Ashby Road, Loughborough, LE11 3TU View on map >
Telephone
Email
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University Profile
Loughborough’s illustrious sporting pedigree makes the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park the ideal location for Loughborough’s new London campus, opening in 2015. The university is moving into the former Olympic press and broadcast centres to run postgraduate and executive courses initially.
With some of the country’s best sporting facilities on the doorstep of the new campus, it does not take a great leap of imagination to see the development as the start of something much bigger for Loughborough.
It has been another stellar year for the university, with improvements in six of our eight performance measures earning it a shortlisting in our University of the Year award once more. It won the award outright in 2008 and has been shortlisted now on a further five occasions since we introduced the award in 1999 – more than any other university.
Connections with the Olympics abound. Lord Sebastian Coe, who chaired the organising committee for the Games and is himself a double Olympic gold medallist, is a Loughborough alumnus and now a Pro Chancellor of the university. Ninety athletes with Loughborough connections competed at the 2012 Olympic and
Even more competed at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow this summer - 120 Loughborough-connected athletes represented eight different countries in nine sports. They won 35 medals, including nine golds, meaning Loughborough would have ranked 11 in the final medals table had it been a country.
However, there is much more to Loughborough than sport: it has become a regular fixture in or around our top 20 – rising eight places to rank 13 this year – and it increased its intake of new undergraduates by more than 20% in 2013.
The university consistently registers among the best scores in the National Student Survey – making the UK top 10 again in our analysis of the results – and ranks first in the UK in the International Student Barometer, which reflects the views of overseas students. At least nine out of ten were satisfied and would recommend the university to others.
The Office for Standards in Education also rates Loughborough in its top category for teacher training in physical education, design and science.
Most subjects are available either as three-year full-time or longer sandwich degrees, which include a year in industry. This has helped to give graduates a strong employment record – another top 20 ranking – as well a dropout rate of 4.6%, which is particularly low for the subjects Loughborough offers.
Loughborough is a leader in art and design and remains a major centre of engineering, with more than 2,800 students in a £20m integrated engineering complex. Civil, aeronautical and automotive engineering are particularly strong. Loughborough is also taking the lead in a £5m project to boost research, training and industry partnerships in solar energy.
The original 216-acre campus has benefited from a sustained development programme which included a large student union extension and a new business school, as well as the gradual refurbishment of residential accommodation.
The first phase of a £68m on-campus accommodation development has more than 5,000 rooms, with another 1,300 bedrooms to come in four new halls. Arts facilities are improving with the upgrading of the Cope Auditorium to serve the campus and local community.
An £8m building for Health, Exercise and Biosciences opened in 2010 and a new Design Centre, the first project in a wider masterplan for the East Park area of the campus, opened its doors in October 2011.
The purchase of the adjacent Holywell Park site increased the size of the campus by 75% , offering new scope for research and collaboration with industry. The Science and Enterprise Parkincludes the BAE-sponsored Systems Engineering Innovation Centre. Close relationships with industry have helped to amass a record haul of seven Queen’s Anniversary Prizes.
The university is a leader in the use of computer-assisted assessment, offering students the chance to gauge their own progress online. However, Loughborough misses all its access benchmarks: fewer than a quarter of the undergraduates are from working-class homes and less than 6% are from areas of low participation in higher education.
The university will spend more than £4m in scholarships and bursaries and larger sums on outreach activities in 2015-16.
The sports facilities are the best in the country – quite possibly the best this side of the Atlantic – and still improving. Loughborough was chosen as the official preparation camp headquarters for Team GB prior to the London 2012 Olympics. It has since been named as the official Innovation Partner of the International Hockey Federation and will be one of two national centres for British Swimming as it prepares for the Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.
The university will also host a £10m National Sport and Exercise Medicine Centre of Excellence, one of three in the UK. A new £5.6m health and fitness centre will open in October.
The campus boasts a 50-metre swimming pool, national academies for cricket and tennis, a gymnastics centre and a high-performance training centre for athletics. The university also has the country’s only centre for disability sport and has spent £15m on its Sports Technology Institute. The programme of sports scholarships is the largest at any university.
Social activity is concentrated on a students’ union which is among the most popular in the country with its members. The campus is huge and were it not for the need to live off-campus at some point during their studies, it might be possible for students to spend all three years of their studies within its confines. There are more than 5,500 places in university halls, with an unusually high number (just under 2,400 places) offering catered accommodation.
The relatively small market town of Loughborough, a mile away, pales by comparison socially, but for those determined to party, Leicester and Nottingham are a short distance away.
With some of the country’s best sporting facilities on the doorstep of the new campus, it does not take a great leap of imagination to see the development as the start of something much bigger for Loughborough.
It has been another stellar year for the university, with improvements in six of our eight performance measures earning it a shortlisting in our University of the Year award once more. It won the award outright in 2008 and has been shortlisted now on a further five occasions since we introduced the award in 1999 – more than any other university.
Connections with the Olympics abound. Lord Sebastian Coe, who chaired the organising committee for the Games and is himself a double Olympic gold medallist, is a Loughborough alumnus and now a Pro Chancellor of the university. Ninety athletes with Loughborough connections competed at the 2012 Olympic and
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Paralympic Games, winning a total of 13 medals.Even more competed at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow this summer - 120 Loughborough-connected athletes represented eight different countries in nine sports. They won 35 medals, including nine golds, meaning Loughborough would have ranked 11 in the final medals table had it been a country.
However, there is much more to Loughborough than sport: it has become a regular fixture in or around our top 20 – rising eight places to rank 13 this year – and it increased its intake of new undergraduates by more than 20% in 2013.
The Office for Standards in Education also rates Loughborough in its top category for teacher training in physical education, design and science.
Most subjects are available either as three-year full-time or longer sandwich degrees, which include a year in industry. This has helped to give graduates a strong employment record – another top 20 ranking – as well a dropout rate of 4.6%, which is particularly low for the subjects Loughborough offers.
Loughborough is a leader in art and design and remains a major centre of engineering, with more than 2,800 students in a £20m integrated engineering complex. Civil, aeronautical and automotive engineering are particularly strong. Loughborough is also taking the lead in a £5m project to boost research, training and industry partnerships in solar energy.
The original 216-acre campus has benefited from a sustained development programme which included a large student union extension and a new business school, as well as the gradual refurbishment of residential accommodation.
The first phase of a £68m on-campus accommodation development has more than 5,000 rooms, with another 1,300 bedrooms to come in four new halls. Arts facilities are improving with the upgrading of the Cope Auditorium to serve the campus and local community.
An £8m building for Health, Exercise and Biosciences opened in 2010 and a new Design Centre, the first project in a wider masterplan for the East Park area of the campus, opened its doors in October 2011.
The purchase of the adjacent Holywell Park site increased the size of the campus by 75% , offering new scope for research and collaboration with industry. The Science and Enterprise Parkincludes the BAE-sponsored Systems Engineering Innovation Centre. Close relationships with industry have helped to amass a record haul of seven Queen’s Anniversary Prizes.
The university is a leader in the use of computer-assisted assessment, offering students the chance to gauge their own progress online. However, Loughborough misses all its access benchmarks: fewer than a quarter of the undergraduates are from working-class homes and less than 6% are from areas of low participation in higher education.
The university will spend more than £4m in scholarships and bursaries and larger sums on outreach activities in 2015-16.
The sports facilities are the best in the country – quite possibly the best this side of the Atlantic – and still improving. Loughborough was chosen as the official preparation camp headquarters for Team GB prior to the London 2012 Olympics. It has since been named as the official Innovation Partner of the International Hockey Federation and will be one of two national centres for British Swimming as it prepares for the Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.
The university will also host a £10m National Sport and Exercise Medicine Centre of Excellence, one of three in the UK. A new £5.6m health and fitness centre will open in October.
The campus boasts a 50-metre swimming pool, national academies for cricket and tennis, a gymnastics centre and a high-performance training centre for athletics. The university also has the country’s only centre for disability sport and has spent £15m on its Sports Technology Institute. The programme of sports scholarships is the largest at any university.
Social activity is concentrated on a students’ union which is among the most popular in the country with its members. The campus is huge and were it not for the need to live off-campus at some point during their studies, it might be possible for students to spend all three years of their studies within its confines. There are more than 5,500 places in university halls, with an unusually high number (just under 2,400 places) offering catered accommodation.
The relatively small market town of Loughborough, a mile away, pales by comparison socially, but for those determined to party, Leicester and Nottingham are a short distance away.
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Detailed Statistics
PERFORMANCE
PERFORMANCE
CATEGORY
SCORE
RANK
Ranking
-
13 (21)
Student experience
85.7
8th=
Research quality
24.7
18th=
Ucas entry points
406
35th
Graduate prospects
80
13th
Firsts and 2:1s
78
22nd=
Completion rate
93.5
19th
Student-staff ratio
15.6:1
41st=
Services/facilities spend (£)
1,956
32nd
World ranking
-
265= (244=)
VITAL STATISTICS
Undergraduates
(Full-time)
11,090
Undergraduates
(Part-time)
385
Postgraduates
(Full-time)
2,305
Postgraduates
(Part-time)
1,685
Applications/places
21,915/4,125
Applications/places ratio
5.3:1
STUDENT CITIES
Becky Lauder-Fletcher, students’ union officer
Each hall has its own committee organising events, so be prepared for the time of your life.
There’s one high street in Loughborough, but our campus is vibrant and Leicester and Nottingham are just 10 minutes away.
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Cost of living
Nightlife
Transport
Culture
ACCOMMODATION
Places in accommodation
5,500
Accommodation costs
£83-£140
Catered costs
£124-£167
Accommodation contact
FEES
UK/EU fees
£9,000
Fees (placement year)
£840
Fees (overseas year)
£840
Fees (international)
£13,750-£17,300
Finance website
Graduate salaries
£23,419
BURSARIES/SCHOLARSHIPS
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For UK (excluding Welsh) students, household income below £18K, a bursary of £2,000, years 1–3; fee waiver for placement year; £2,000 bursary and £5,000 fee waiver, year 4 Integrated Masters; £18K–£22K, £2,000, years 1–3; £2,000 and £4,000 fee waiver, year 4; £22K–£25K, £1,000, years 1–3; £1,000 and £3,000 fee waiver, year 4; enhanced terms for mature students.
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Scholarships for high achievers from low HE participation areas.
SPORT
Sports points/rank
5329, 1st
Sport website
Student satisfaction
91.5%
91.0%
89.0%
88.0%
87.9%
87.8%
87.3%
87.0%
86.2%
86.1%
86.0%
84.6%
84.5%
84.4%
84.3%
84.0%
81.9%
81.8%
79.9%