TEACHING
QUALITY
Roehampton University
73
rd
NATIONAL
RANK
RANK
62.1%
FIRSTS
2:1s
2:1s
81.8%
COMPLETION
RATE
RATE
Key Stats
n/a
54th=
STUDENT
EXPERIENCE
EXPERIENCE
57th
RESEARCH
QUALITY
QUALITY
101st
GRADUATE
PROSPECTS
PROSPECTS
Contact details
ADDRESS
Erasmus House,
Roehampton Lane, London, SW15 5PU View on map >
Telephone
Email
Website
Open days
September 27; November 1; February 11, 2015; July 11
University Profile
Roehampton, up seven places in our league table this year, is investing in its leafy 54-acre southwest London campus, with a new library due to open in 2016. Other projects include a centre for excellence for teaching citizenship education, human rights and social justice, and a newsroom for journalism and media students.
Under the £75m development programme, the Grade II-listed Downshire House will house a centre for Therapies Education and accommodate 200 students. The university has already provided an additional 400 rooms in a new complex that includes a swimming pool and other facilities, 20 minutes from the main campus by public transport, at Vauxhall.
Roehampton is also opening a new School of Law in September 2015, which will also operate a legal advice clinic for the local community.
The university will become the last in the capital to charge tuition fees of £9,000 a year next September. It does not offer bursaries to students from poor backgrounds, so only those winning scholarships will receive financial support on entry.
For students achieving at least ABB at A-level, Vice-chancellor scholarships are
Although an independent university only since 2004, Roehampton has a distinguished history, dating back to the 1840s, its colleges having been among the first in the country to open higher education to women.
Today the university has diversified into business, the arts and humanities, social sciences and the human and life sciences, while maintaining its historic strength in education, which still accounts for a quarter of the students. The universityhas embraced the new School Direct system of teacher training, operating in partnership with schools as well as running its own postgraduate and undergraduate training programmes.
An additional attraction on the main campus is the Glion Institute of Higher Education, a Swiss hospitality management college offering undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in its first overseas venture. The university is in partnership with Laureate, Glion’s owners, to offer courses online.
Numbers are expanding rapidly in business, information systems, education and public health, and the university is aiming to have 4,000 online students by 2019.
Roehampton is a collegiate university with four distinctive colleges, which still maintain some of the traditional ethos of their religious foundations: the Anglican Whitelands, the Roman Catholic Digby Stuart, the Methodist Southlands, and the Froebel, which follows the humanist teachings of Frederick Froebel. Students need not follow any of these denominations to enrol in the colleges. The university also has a Jewish resource centre and Muslim prayer rooms.
All four colleges are based on a single campus, with stunning parkland and lakes, on or adjacent to Roehampton Lane.
It is the first Living Landscape University in London, having joined the Beverley Brook Living Landscape, which neighbours and extends onto the campus. The scheme will provide opportunities for students to learn practical conservation, as well as teamwork and leadership skills. The colleges’ bars and leisure facilities are open to all members of the university.
The Quality Assurance Agency complimented Roehampton on the accessibility of academic staff to students and the positive ways in which they responded to student needs.
The university won our award for Best University for Student Retention in 2012 for having a dropout rate considerably below the national average for a university with Roehampton’s course profile and student mix (although the present projected dropout rate of 12.9% has now crept ahead of the university’s benchmark).
New schemes to support students into future employment include graduate mentoring from alumni in professional roles and internships in a number of departments, as well as a Santander Internship Schemeproviding paidplacements for students in local businesses and the chance to study abroad with no additional tuition fees.
Successes in the last Research Assessment Exercise, when Roehampton entered a much higher proportion of its academics than most of its peer group, added to the university’s reputation. A third of the submission was judged to be world-leading or internationally excellent.
Dame Jacqueline Wilson, a children’s author, who taught on both the Children’s Literature and Creative Writing Master’s degrees, has become the university’s new chancellor, taking over from the journalist John Simpson.
Over 95% of undergraduates were state educated, 42% coming from working-class homes. Most first years who want a hall place are offered one, with priority going to those living furthest away. While rents are not cheap for those who prefer the private sector, students like the proximity of central London and the lively and attractive suburbs around Roehampton.
The sports facilities on campus have been enhanced, with a new gym, two football pitches, running track and a multi-use games area. The sport performance and rehabilitation centre provides state-of-the-art laboratory facilities and performance coaching. The university is a high-performance centre for British fencing and sitting volleyball.
Under the £75m development programme, the Grade II-listed Downshire House will house a centre for Therapies Education and accommodate 200 students. The university has already provided an additional 400 rooms in a new complex that includes a swimming pool and other facilities, 20 minutes from the main campus by public transport, at Vauxhall.
Roehampton is also opening a new School of Law in September 2015, which will also operate a legal advice clinic for the local community.
The university will become the last in the capital to charge tuition fees of £9,000 a year next September. It does not offer bursaries to students from poor backgrounds, so only those winning scholarships will receive financial support on entry.
For students achieving at least ABB at A-level, Vice-chancellor scholarships are
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currently worth £2,000 a year and there are four Roehampton scholarships awarded each year to high-achieving students resident in Wandsworth, which cover the full cost of tuition fees over a degree course.Although an independent university only since 2004, Roehampton has a distinguished history, dating back to the 1840s, its colleges having been among the first in the country to open higher education to women.
An additional attraction on the main campus is the Glion Institute of Higher Education, a Swiss hospitality management college offering undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in its first overseas venture. The university is in partnership with Laureate, Glion’s owners, to offer courses online.
Numbers are expanding rapidly in business, information systems, education and public health, and the university is aiming to have 4,000 online students by 2019.
Roehampton is a collegiate university with four distinctive colleges, which still maintain some of the traditional ethos of their religious foundations: the Anglican Whitelands, the Roman Catholic Digby Stuart, the Methodist Southlands, and the Froebel, which follows the humanist teachings of Frederick Froebel. Students need not follow any of these denominations to enrol in the colleges. The university also has a Jewish resource centre and Muslim prayer rooms.
All four colleges are based on a single campus, with stunning parkland and lakes, on or adjacent to Roehampton Lane.
It is the first Living Landscape University in London, having joined the Beverley Brook Living Landscape, which neighbours and extends onto the campus. The scheme will provide opportunities for students to learn practical conservation, as well as teamwork and leadership skills. The colleges’ bars and leisure facilities are open to all members of the university.
The Quality Assurance Agency complimented Roehampton on the accessibility of academic staff to students and the positive ways in which they responded to student needs.
The university won our award for Best University for Student Retention in 2012 for having a dropout rate considerably below the national average for a university with Roehampton’s course profile and student mix (although the present projected dropout rate of 12.9% has now crept ahead of the university’s benchmark).
New schemes to support students into future employment include graduate mentoring from alumni in professional roles and internships in a number of departments, as well as a Santander Internship Schemeproviding paidplacements for students in local businesses and the chance to study abroad with no additional tuition fees.
Successes in the last Research Assessment Exercise, when Roehampton entered a much higher proportion of its academics than most of its peer group, added to the university’s reputation. A third of the submission was judged to be world-leading or internationally excellent.
Dame Jacqueline Wilson, a children’s author, who taught on both the Children’s Literature and Creative Writing Master’s degrees, has become the university’s new chancellor, taking over from the journalist John Simpson.
Over 95% of undergraduates were state educated, 42% coming from working-class homes. Most first years who want a hall place are offered one, with priority going to those living furthest away. While rents are not cheap for those who prefer the private sector, students like the proximity of central London and the lively and attractive suburbs around Roehampton.
The sports facilities on campus have been enhanced, with a new gym, two football pitches, running track and a multi-use games area. The sport performance and rehabilitation centre provides state-of-the-art laboratory facilities and performance coaching. The university is a high-performance centre for British fencing and sitting volleyball.
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Detailed Statistics
PERFORMANCE
PERFORMANCE
CATEGORY
SCORE
RANK
Ranking
-
73 (80)
Student experience
82.6
54th=
Research quality
7.7
57th
Ucas entry points
287
107th=
Graduate prospects
56.9
101st
Firsts and 2:1s
62.1
87th
Completion rate
81.8
94th
Student-staff ratio
20.2:1
97th
Services/facilities spend (£)
2,153
19th
VITAL STATISTICS
Undergraduates
(Full-time)
6,140
Undergraduates
(Part-time)
235
Postgraduates
(Full-time)
1,215
Postgraduates
(Part-time)
1,470
Applications/places
9,175/2,425
Applications/places ratio
3.8:1
STUDENT CITIES
Siobhan Kelly, students’ union president
The two campuses are outside the hustle and bustle of the capital but still very close to central London.
The geese try to rule the roost on campus so don’t annoy them and watch where you step.
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Cost of living
Nightlife
Transport
Culture
ACCOMMODATION
Places in accommodation
1,500
Accommodation costs
£105-£136
Accommodation contact
FEES
UK/EU fees
£9,000
Fees (international)
£11,500
Finance website
Graduate salaries
£19,676
BURSARIES/SCHOLARSHIPS
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Selection of targeted scholarships, including 4 Roehampton scholarships of £27,000 fee waiver for residents of Wandsworth.
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Music and sports scholarships, and £1,000 a year for male primary education students with household income below £25K.
SPORT
Sports points/rank
118, 99th
Sport website
Student satisfaction
88.7%
87.8%
87.4%
86.4%
85.3%
85.0%
82.1%
81.6%
80.0%
79.7%
79.5%
75.9%