TEACHING
QUALITY
York St John University
87
th
NATIONAL
RANK
RANK
63.5%
FIRSTS
2:1s
2:1s
91.3%
COMPLETION
RATE
RATE
Key Stats
n/a
87th=
STUDENT
EXPERIENCE
EXPERIENCE
110th=
RESEARCH
QUALITY
QUALITY
66th
GRADUATE
PROSPECTS
PROSPECTS
Contact details
ADDRESS
Lord Mayor's Walk, York, YO31 7EX View on map >
Telephone
Email
Website
Open days
October 25 and 29
University Profile
York St John is the only university in the UK to have increased its enrolment of undergraduates for the last four years in a row. It attracted one of the biggest increases in the country when higher fees were introduced and added another 14% last year.
Its popularity continued a well-established trend: undergraduate applications have risen by 60% since university status arrived in 2006, with growth in the arts, business, theology, education, health and life sciences.
Professor David Fleming, the vice-chancellor, said the university had invested in the quality of its teaching and the campus environment, as well as offering a strong package of fee waivers and student support.
The university will charge perhaps the lowest fees in England on its foundation degrees in education and theology, which will cost £3,500 in 2015-16, but the fees for all honours degrees will be £9,000.
York St John is a Church of England foundation that dates back to 1841, when the Diocesan Training School opened with just one pupil on the register, in whose honour the students’ union is named. The 11-acre
Now serving 6,000 students, the campus has seen £91m of development in recent years and more is planned. The Fountains Learning Centre, which provides a striking entrance to the university, has been refurbished. It now has 530 computer workstations, multimedia group-work facilities, 24-hour access to enhanced self-service facilities and an enlarged book stock, as well an internet café and lecture theatre.
Nearby, the prize-winning De Grey Court, which cost £15.5m and serves the health and life sciences, links the university quarter with the city centre.
Divided between York and Ripon for most of its existence, the institution diversified beyond teacher training in the 1980s and decided in 1999 to concentrate all its teaching on York.
The university’s mission statement says its provision is “shaped” by the York St John’s church foundation, although it welcomes students of all beliefs.
The Business School, launched in 2008, is now the biggest faculty, having overtaken Education and Theology, as well as Health and Life Sciences.
The university has launched a number of successful enterprise initiatives. Its latest venture, the Phoenix Centre, a business incubation facility, supports both the university’s graduates and new local businesses.
Almost two-thirds of the students are female and there is a growing cohort of international students. More than 95% of the UK undergraduates attended state schools or colleges, over a third of them coming from working-class homes. The projected dropout rate of less than 4% maintains the impressive improvement of recent years and is now among the 10 lowest in the UK.
The Faculty of Arts, which was formed in 2001, has been one of the main points of expansion, especially in degree programmes such as film and television, media and American studies. The university was awarded a national centre for excellence in creativity, based on its work in English and theatre studies, although funding for such programmes has now ceased.
Another music technology suite has been added and performance spaces include two dedicated TV studios, digital non-linear edit suites, digital imaging equipment and equipment for sound manipulation. Drama, dance and performing arts was the most successful field in the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise and the only one to contain world-leading research.
Relatively high numbers of local mature students ease the pressure on residential accommodation. As a result, first years who want to live in university-owned accommodation are now guaranteed places.
A new hall of residence for 250 students opened in 2013, 10 minutes’ walk from the campus, and the university offers a choice of catered, semi-catered and private accommodation.
The Foss Building houses a sports hall, climbing wall, basketball, netball, indoor football and cricket nets. The university has also acquired a 57-acre site 15 minutes’ walk from campus, where it has made huge improvements to the sports facilities, with cricket, rugby and football pitches, tennis and netball courts, and a six-lane athletics track.
The site includes the Rowntree Theatre, which is used mainly by local performance groups. The students’ union was recognised in the latest NUS awards as Small and Specialist Union of the Year, having doubled its number of societies and society members.
Its popularity continued a well-established trend: undergraduate applications have risen by 60% since university status arrived in 2006, with growth in the arts, business, theology, education, health and life sciences.
Professor David Fleming, the vice-chancellor, said the university had invested in the quality of its teaching and the campus environment, as well as offering a strong package of fee waivers and student support.
The university will charge perhaps the lowest fees in England on its foundation degrees in education and theology, which will cost £3,500 in 2015-16, but the fees for all honours degrees will be £9,000.
York St John is a Church of England foundation that dates back to 1841, when the Diocesan Training School opened with just one pupil on the register, in whose honour the students’ union is named. The 11-acre
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site faces York Minster across the city walls and is a five-minute walk from the city centre.Now serving 6,000 students, the campus has seen £91m of development in recent years and more is planned. The Fountains Learning Centre, which provides a striking entrance to the university, has been refurbished. It now has 530 computer workstations, multimedia group-work facilities, 24-hour access to enhanced self-service facilities and an enlarged book stock, as well an internet café and lecture theatre.
Divided between York and Ripon for most of its existence, the institution diversified beyond teacher training in the 1980s and decided in 1999 to concentrate all its teaching on York.
The university’s mission statement says its provision is “shaped” by the York St John’s church foundation, although it welcomes students of all beliefs.
The Business School, launched in 2008, is now the biggest faculty, having overtaken Education and Theology, as well as Health and Life Sciences.
The university has launched a number of successful enterprise initiatives. Its latest venture, the Phoenix Centre, a business incubation facility, supports both the university’s graduates and new local businesses.
Almost two-thirds of the students are female and there is a growing cohort of international students. More than 95% of the UK undergraduates attended state schools or colleges, over a third of them coming from working-class homes. The projected dropout rate of less than 4% maintains the impressive improvement of recent years and is now among the 10 lowest in the UK.
The Faculty of Arts, which was formed in 2001, has been one of the main points of expansion, especially in degree programmes such as film and television, media and American studies. The university was awarded a national centre for excellence in creativity, based on its work in English and theatre studies, although funding for such programmes has now ceased.
Another music technology suite has been added and performance spaces include two dedicated TV studios, digital non-linear edit suites, digital imaging equipment and equipment for sound manipulation. Drama, dance and performing arts was the most successful field in the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise and the only one to contain world-leading research.
Relatively high numbers of local mature students ease the pressure on residential accommodation. As a result, first years who want to live in university-owned accommodation are now guaranteed places.
A new hall of residence for 250 students opened in 2013, 10 minutes’ walk from the campus, and the university offers a choice of catered, semi-catered and private accommodation.
The Foss Building houses a sports hall, climbing wall, basketball, netball, indoor football and cricket nets. The university has also acquired a 57-acre site 15 minutes’ walk from campus, where it has made huge improvements to the sports facilities, with cricket, rugby and football pitches, tennis and netball courts, and a six-lane athletics track.
The site includes the Rowntree Theatre, which is used mainly by local performance groups. The students’ union was recognised in the latest NUS awards as Small and Specialist Union of the Year, having doubled its number of societies and society members.
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Detailed Statistics
PERFORMANCE
PERFORMANCE
CATEGORY
SCORE
RANK
Ranking
-
87 (64=)
Student experience
80.2
87th=
Research quality
1
110th=
Ucas entry points
302
94th=
Graduate prospects
64.5
66th
Firsts and 2:1s
63.5
78th
Completion rate
91.3
33rd
Student-staff ratio
21.1:1
105th=
Services/facilities spend (£)
1,207
101st
VITAL STATISTICS
Undergraduates
(Full-time)
4,360
Undergraduates
(Part-time)
875
Postgraduates
(Full-time)
310
Postgraduates
(Part-time)
505
Applications/places
9,700/1,870
Applications/places ratio
5.2:1
STUDENT CITIES
Laura Jackson, students’ union president
The friendly vibe not just among fellow students but all the staff, including the lecturers.
York is so lovely that when you visit other cities they just don’t live up to it.
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Cost of living
Nightlife
Transport
Culture
ACCOMMODATION
Places in accommodation
1,850
Accommodation costs
£83-£151
Catered costs
£124-£149
Accommodation contact
FEES
UK/EU fees
£9,000
Fees (international)
£9,500-£11,500
Finance website
Graduate salaries
£17,847
BURSARIES/SCHOLARSHIPS
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Household income: below £25K, a bursary of £1,000 a year.
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A range of sports scholarships for all students.
SPORT
Sports points/rank
160.5, 93rd
Sport website
Student satisfaction
90.5%
89.0%
86.1%
85.5%
84.8%
80.9%
80.7%
77.0%
74.4%
71.9%
66.5%