University of Lancaster, details of University of Lancaster

Lancaster

University ranking

• 2010  12
• 2009  10
• 2008  19

History

• Initiated under royal charter and the first students accepted in 1964. Lancaster is now one of only six collegiate universities in England.

Location and transport

• Easy access to Manchester and Liverpool to the south, and the Lake District just to the north.
• Buses leave the station in town every 5 minutes on weekdays for the university.

Accommodation

• On campus accommodation ranges from £66.50–£125.30.
• En-suite rooms, flats and self contained studios available.
• More details about accommodation at Lancaster are available here.
• Average price off campus is £69.50 per week inclusive of bills.

Entry standards

League Table

• 308 UCAS tariff points from best 3 A-levels.
• For more information about entry standards at Lancaster, visit the website.

Bursaries and scholarships

In receipt of full Maintenance Grant £1,315 

In receipt of partial Maintenance Grant  £0–500

Academic achievement Scholarship

• Tuition fees (2009): £3,225.
• Placement year tuition fee (2008): £625.  Year abroad tuition fee (2008) £1,570.
• All UK applicants are offered the opportunity of winning a scholarship worth £1,000 if they achieve specified examination grades.
• Scholarships are in addition to any bursaries awarded to students.
• Eligibility for bursaries is on basis of LEA financial assessments.
• For more information on bursaries and scholarships at Lancaster, click here.
• Student employment scheme.

Student mix

• Around 12,000 students in total.

• Male 48: female 52.
• 5.94% of undergraduates of non-white European origin.
• 91% of undergraduates from state schools.
• 18% of undergraduates from outside the UK.

Course flexibility

• Part one system allows three courses to be taken in the first year, including one major and two minors.
• Students may change their major to either of their minors in the second year, provided they achieve the necessary grades.

Teaching standards

League Table

• Achieved 4.2 in the most recent National Student Survey.

Research standards

League Table 

• From 2001 RAE, Lancaster is the top ten research university in UK.
• Sociology and Statistics, and Applied Statistics all 6*.
• Physics 5*.
• RAE (2001) places Lancaster's Management School equal first in the UK for research quality. It is one of only two UK business schools (the other is London Business School) to have been rated with the highest score for research quality continuously for nearly 20 years. Lancaster's excellence at research was further supported in a nationwide survey of successful research applications from UK universities. Lancaster came first in the UK, beating Oxford and Cambridge and 36 other research-led universities.

Academic strengths

• Mechanical Engineering, American Studies, Social Work, Art and Design, Computer Sciences and IT, Management, Economics, Theatre Studies, Maths, Philosophy, Sociology, English and Psychology.
• Lancaster's Management School is typically ranked in the UK's top four and among the world's highly ranked management and business schools. It is the only UK business school to be so highly ranked across all major activities (MBA and Masters, Undergraduate, PhD, Research and Executive Education). On this evidence Lancaster claims to be the leading full-spectrum business or management school in the UK.

Student facilities

League Table 

Disability service

• For  information on the disability service at Lancaster, click here.

Students’ Union

• Works differently from most universities in that the Students’ Union is an administrative building with social events more spread out. For more details, visit the website.
• As well as the union nightclub in Lancaster, nine colleges on campus have their own bars, facilities and social spaces.

Sport

• Lancaster is in the first quartile of UK universities in the BUSA national rankings.
• Each of the nine colleges have approximately 26 sports teams.
• For more information on sport at Lancaster, click here.

Recent/prospective new builds

• Postgraduate Statistics Centre was opened in February 2008, with the aim of achieving excellence in teaching in statistics to those in the department and across the university.
• County Town Houses (new-build student residences) completed in 2007. They were conceived and designed to incorporate high levels of environmental performance, minimal emissions and excellent user information and control to provide a sustainable and comfortable living environment. The development has achieved a BREEAM Excellent status grading.
• Sports Centre is due for completion in early 2010. The scheme plans to deliver 6000 square metres of space providing an all-new centre with facilities for wet and dry sports.

Availability of part-time work

• Visit the website for information.

For further information

• www.lancaster.ac.uk
• ugadmissions@lancaster.ac.uk
• Lancaster University, Bailrigg, Lancaster, LA1 4YW 
• +44 (0) 1524 65201 
• Travel and maps