Founded 1874 · 14,200 students
A university small enough to know your name.
Sixty-one undergraduate programmes across four faculties, with a staff-to-student ratio of one to eleven and tutorials that stay under six people.
Faculties
Sixty-one undergraduate and forty-two postgraduate programmes.
- 119 programmes
Sciences
Physics, chemistry, biology and the interdisciplinary institute that sits between them.
- 223 programmes
Humanities
History, philosophy, languages and literature, taught almost entirely in small tutorials.
- 311 programmes
Engineering
Accredited throughout, with a compulsory year in industry on every course.
Who teaches it
You will be taught by these people
Prof. Alan Ferreira
Dean of Sciences
Runs the interdisciplinary institute and still teaches first-year tutorials.
Prof. Ruth Kaminski
Dean of Humanities
Twenty-one years at Ashgrove. Fiercely protective of the six-person tutorial.
Dr Osman Yilmaz
Dean of Engineering
Built the industry placement year that every course now requires.
1874
Founded
1:11
Staff to student ratio
6
Maximum tutorial size
94%
In work or study at 15 months
Dates
Upcoming intakes
Undergraduate open day
18 October · Book a place, all faculties
Postgraduate evening
6 November · Meet supervisors informally
UCAS deadline
15 January · Equal consideration date
Tuition
What it costs, and how to pay it
Home undergraduate
GBP 9,535
per year
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All four faculties
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Tuition loan eligible
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Bursary up to GBP 3,000
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Guaranteed first-year accommodation
International
GBP 21,400
per year
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Same tuition, same tutorials
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Visa and CAS support
- ✓
Airport collection
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Guaranteed accommodation for the full course
Postgraduate
From GBP 12,200
per programme
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42 taught and research programmes
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Departmental scholarships
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Supervision from month one
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Access to the research library
“My tutorial group had four people in it. By the second term the tutor knew exactly which arguments I would try to get away with.”
Sofia Marchetti
Graduate, 2023
Before you apply
How large are tutorials really?
Capped at six, and the average across the last academic year was 4.2. It is the single most expensive thing we do and the reason fees are where they are.
What support is there financially?
Bursaries of up to GBP 3,000 a year are means-tested and awarded automatically, with no separate application form.
Is accommodation guaranteed?
For all first-year undergraduates who apply by the deadline, and for the full course for international students.
What are graduate outcomes?
Ninety-four per cent are in work or further study fifteen months after graduating, from the most recent published survey.
Open days run monthly.
Meet the department, sit in on a tutorial, and stay for lunch in the hall.