TEACHING
QUALITY
University of Warwick
8
th
NATIONAL
RANK
RANK
81%
FIRSTS
2:1s
2:1s
95.7%
COMPLETION
RATE
RATE
Key Stats
n/a
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STUDENT
EXPERIENCE
EXPERIENCE
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RESEARCH
QUALITY
QUALITY
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GRADUATE
PROSPECTS
PROSPECTS
Contact details
University Profile
Our University of the Year, Warwick tops five of our specialist subject tables this year, only two fewer than Oxford. Our tables show that Warwick is the best place in the country to study economics, accounting and finance, communications and media, creative writing, and drama, dance and cinematics (theatre studies).
It has never failed to make the top 10 of our institutional table either and this year moves up two places largely off the back of a sharp improvement in student satisfaction scores.
Its campus on the outskirts of Coventry seems to have been permanently under development since the university opened in the 1960s. No sooner had the latest £150m capital programme entered its final year than the university was announcing another £250m of investment over the next five years.
The focus will be on teaching and research infrastructure, beginning with a £15m learning centre. The new plans also include new interdisciplinary research labs to bring together a range of staff from science and medicine departments, a new humanities building and improved facilities for a number of other subjects.
The
Warwick is also about to start building the £100-million National Automotive Innovation Centre (Naic) on its campus, in which research engineers from car manufacturers will work closely with Warwick Manufacturing Group. Naic is part-funded by Government as well as by the local car manufacturer Jaguar Land Rover and its parent company, Tata Motors
The university has global ambitions and has expanded a portfolio of international activities that includes a base in Venice, a close partnership with Monash University, in Australia, and a programme for gifted teenagers around the world. Warwick is also the only European institution to be involved in the Center for Urban Science and Progress, a consortium of leading universities established in New York.
The university has reconfigured its research around its "Global Research Priorities" programme, which brings together expertise from different subjects to focus on key areas of international significance. Current themes include energy, connecting cultures, food security, global governance, individual behaviour and innovative manufacturing.
The university does not neglect its locality, however. Its mission statement stresses community links and the extension of access to higher and continuing education. There is a smaller proportion of independent school students than at most Russell Group universities – around a quarter – and about one in five students is from a working-class background in line with expectations for a university of this type.
The university took nearly 500 additional undergraduates in 2013, following a small decline in the previous year, including a growing cohort of international students. The dropout rate is among the lowest in Britain, at little more than 4%.
The university plans to spend £1.65m in 2015-16 on a “student lifecycle” approach to widening participation, helping non-traditional students from before the application stage through to employment or postgraduate study. The scheme will include bursaries of up to £3,000 a year for those from families with a combined income of less than £35,000.
Almost two-thirds of the work submitted for the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise was considered world-leading or internationally excellent, placing Warwick among the top 10 UK universities.
The university has invested shrewdly in business, science and engineering and there is now a thriving graduate entry medical school, with over 2,000 students. An analytical science research facility for physics and chemistry has been completed recently.
Warwick is also one of the few leading universities to embrace 2+2 degrees – so-called as students complete two years studying in a partner college before entering the second year of a degree programme at Warwick itself –
running courses in social studies and health and social policy.
Warwick added further study spaces in its Learning Grid study area in 2013 and created a dedicated off-campus study facility for students living in nearby Leamington Spa. This year it created an additional Dining Grid area where students could eat and study.
The university has a wide range of on-campus accommodation set in its 750-acres (6,200 rooms currently on campus and with plans to spend around £50m to build even more residences on campus).
The sports facilities are both extensive and conveniently placed and include a high quality running track, an indoor climbing Centre and an indoor tennis centre. The main Sports Centre and Gym completed an extensive refit in 2013 and further investment is planned in its sports facilities and the already extensive Warwick Arts Centre.
It has never failed to make the top 10 of our institutional table either and this year moves up two places largely off the back of a sharp improvement in student satisfaction scores.
Its campus on the outskirts of Coventry seems to have been permanently under development since the university opened in the 1960s. No sooner had the latest £150m capital programme entered its final year than the university was announcing another £250m of investment over the next five years.
The focus will be on teaching and research infrastructure, beginning with a £15m learning centre. The new plans also include new interdisciplinary research labs to bring together a range of staff from science and medicine departments, a new humanities building and improved facilities for a number of other subjects.
The
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first phase of a £30m extension to Warwick Business School will open in April 2015, making it one of the largest business schools in the UK.Warwick is also about to start building the £100-million National Automotive Innovation Centre (Naic) on its campus, in which research engineers from car manufacturers will work closely with Warwick Manufacturing Group. Naic is part-funded by Government as well as by the local car manufacturer Jaguar Land Rover and its parent company, Tata Motors
The university has reconfigured its research around its "Global Research Priorities" programme, which brings together expertise from different subjects to focus on key areas of international significance. Current themes include energy, connecting cultures, food security, global governance, individual behaviour and innovative manufacturing.
The university does not neglect its locality, however. Its mission statement stresses community links and the extension of access to higher and continuing education. There is a smaller proportion of independent school students than at most Russell Group universities – around a quarter – and about one in five students is from a working-class background in line with expectations for a university of this type.
The university took nearly 500 additional undergraduates in 2013, following a small decline in the previous year, including a growing cohort of international students. The dropout rate is among the lowest in Britain, at little more than 4%.
The university plans to spend £1.65m in 2015-16 on a “student lifecycle” approach to widening participation, helping non-traditional students from before the application stage through to employment or postgraduate study. The scheme will include bursaries of up to £3,000 a year for those from families with a combined income of less than £35,000.
Almost two-thirds of the work submitted for the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise was considered world-leading or internationally excellent, placing Warwick among the top 10 UK universities.
The university has invested shrewdly in business, science and engineering and there is now a thriving graduate entry medical school, with over 2,000 students. An analytical science research facility for physics and chemistry has been completed recently.
Warwick is also one of the few leading universities to embrace 2+2 degrees – so-called as students complete two years studying in a partner college before entering the second year of a degree programme at Warwick itself –
running courses in social studies and health and social policy.
Warwick added further study spaces in its Learning Grid study area in 2013 and created a dedicated off-campus study facility for students living in nearby Leamington Spa. This year it created an additional Dining Grid area where students could eat and study.
The university has a wide range of on-campus accommodation set in its 750-acres (6,200 rooms currently on campus and with plans to spend around £50m to build even more residences on campus).
The sports facilities are both extensive and conveniently placed and include a high quality running track, an indoor climbing Centre and an indoor tennis centre. The main Sports Centre and Gym completed an extensive refit in 2013 and further investment is planned in its sports facilities and the already extensive Warwick Arts Centre.
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Detailed Statistics
PERFORMANCE
PERFORMANCE
CATEGORY
SCORE
RANK
Ranking
-
8 (10)
Student experience
84
24th=
Research quality
29
9th=
Ucas entry points
510
8th
Graduate prospects
78.1
21st=
Firsts and 2:1s
81
13th=
Completion rate
95.7
8th
Student-staff ratio
13.9:1
20th=
Services/facilities spend (£)
2,314
14th
World ranking
-
61 (64)
VITAL STATISTICS
Undergraduates
(Full-time)
12,395
Undergraduates
(Part-time)
3,975
Postgraduates
(Full-time)
5,390
Postgraduates
(Part-time)
4,390
Applications/places
27,810/4,305
Applications/places ratio
6.5:1
STUDENT CITIES
Cat Turhan, students’ union president
I went from nervous to excited and wanted my parents to leave so I could start having fun with my new hall mates.
It’s normal to feel isolated and anxious about work pressures sometimes, but there’s lots of support within the university.
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Cost of living
Nightlife
Transport
Culture
ACCOMMODATION
FEES
UK/EU fees
£9,000
Fees (placement year)
£1,800
Fees (overseas year)
£1,350
Fees (international)
£15,070-£19,220
Fees (international, medical)
£17,595-£30,650 (graduate entry)
Finance website
Graduate salaries
£23,742
BURSARIES/SCHOLARSHIPS
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English students from state schools, household income up to £16K, a bursary of £2,000 a year; £16K–£25K, £1,500 a year; £25K–£35K, £1,000 a year. Additional awards of £1,000 a year subject to criteria.
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Benefactors Scholarships of £2,000 a year, with priority to those with low incomes and from areas of low participation in HE. Range of other scholarships available.
SPORT
Sports points/rank
1427.5, 20th
Sport website
Student satisfaction
92.2%
91.9%
88.1%
87.9%
87.6%
86.1%
85.5%
85.3%
85.0%
84.1%
83.8%
83.8%
83.5%
82.9%
82.4%
82.3%
78.7%
78.4%
78.3%
78.1%
77.7%
77.2%
75.9%
72.4%