HistoryLancaster University was started under Royal Charter and the primary understudies acknowledged in 1964. Lancaster is presently one of just six university colleges in England.
Every school has its own unmistakable character and group in which understudies live and work for the term of their learns at Lancaster, giving an inviting, protected and secure environment for all understudies.
Area and Transport
In light of a 360-section of land parkland site, the grounds is found a short separation from the energetic and notable city of Lancaster and on the edge of the Lake District National Park.
Simple access to Manchester and Liverpool toward the south, and the Lake District just toward the north.
Three hours to London via prepare.
Consistent transport administration and cycle track to the University from Lancaster.
Section Requirements
Normal of 340 UCAS duty focuses from best 3 A levels.
Perused more about section necessities at Lancaster University.
Understudy Mix
The 13,080 understudies enlisted in the scholastic year 2013/14 include:
Level of study
Undergrad
72%
Postgraduate
28%
Method of study
Full Time
88%
Low maintenance
12%
Residence
UK
67%
EU
9%
Other
23%
Understudy sex
Male
half
Female
half
Course Flexibility
Section one framework permits a few understudies to take up to three courses in the primary year, including one noteworthy and two minors.
The University offers an adaptable way to deal with understudies changing their major to certain different subjects they have examined in their first year gave they accomplish the important evaluations.
Instructing Standards
Find the advantages of our:
concentrate on autonomous study
reasoning of research-drove educating
criticism and evaluation approach
virtual learning environment.
Another method for considering
Our fundamental showing approach is through free study. This implies you assume liability for your own learning and execution whilst conveying work inside of set timescales. This will feel diverse at to start with, with less contact than you are utilized to, yet don't stress - our school coach framework and showing staff are there to backing and guide you as you make the move.
This approach creates solid research aptitudes and the capacity to understand new material rapidly, while enhancing relational abilities.
Specialists in their field
All individuals from our scholarly staff are ebb and flow specialists inside of their particular fields and work on a rationality of research-drove instructing.
Our exploration culture brings about spearheading commitments that interpret into a dynamic and animating environment for you to learn in.
Scholarly appraisal
The way we check your work will feel distinctive as well. We give you criticism and appraisal of expositions, undertakings, presentations and issue sheets, to guarantee you advance and create for the span of your degree.
Investigate Standards
Lancaster University's examination has been appraised as world driving in the 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF), which surveys the quality and effect of research put together by UK colleges over all subjects.
Lancaster is positioned thirteenth for the rate of world driving research out of the 128 foundations recorded and eighteenth in the UK general.
83% of Lancaster's examination is 'globally superb and world driving'.
35% of Lancaster's examination is 'world driving'.
Some key ranges of research are positioned especially exceptionally:
Governmental issues, Philosophy and Religion at Lancaster has been positioned third by and large and positioned beat in the UK for research affect.
Business and Management – first in the UK at Lancaster when positioned for research control and first for the quantity of research dynamic staff, indicating LUMS to be the main research concentrated administration school in the UK.
Human science positioned third for world driving research and second for research affect.
Maths and Statistics positioned fifth in general and third for research affect.
Figuring and Communications is positioned seventh in the UK for world-driving and globally brilliant research and twelfth generally speaking.
English Language and Literature has been positioned third regarding inquire about power, behind just Oxford and Cambridge.
Scholastic Strengths
The developing notoriety of Lancaster is reflected by high rankings year-on-year in each of the UK's significant college group tables. Lancaster has been positioned as the best esteem for cash college in England and is situated in one of the UK's main 10 most energetic urban communities.
Understudies at Lancaster University are more fulfilled by their course than the normal UK understudy as per the most recent National Student Survey. Generally speaking, 89% of definite year understudies at Lancaster say they were fulfilled by their course. These outcomes mirror the commitment of staff who endeavor to guarantee that each understudy who comes here will get the absolute best instruction.
Lancaster graduates are performing great how an inexorably focused employment showcase. Through the work of our Careers staff and new activities, for example, the Lancaster Award, which helps understudies convey to future bosses their aptitudes and achievements, for example, deliberate work, we expect to improve our understudies' future vocation prospects.
College classes
Kind of Qualification:
All Postgraduate (368)
All Undergraduate (308)
To start with Degree (307)
LLB (4)
LLM (20)
MBA (2)
Other Undergraduate (1)
Postgraduate (Research) (130)
Postgraduate (Taught) (238)
Method of study:
Separate/online (10)
Full-time (412)
Full-time with time abroad (84)
Other (5)
Low maintenance (147)
Sandwich (12)
Sandwich with time abroad (1)
Variable (2)
Work-based (4)
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Understudy Facilities
A 24-hour understudy learning space at the focal point of the grounds has given understudies adaptable learning situations and social space with cutting-edge innovation.
A finish remodel of the library is in progress and will give new offices, IT and workspaces.
The University has put resources into updating all its school, bar and understudy social space.
Lively grounds set in lovely parkland.
Live expressions program.
Magnificent games offices.
Understudies can take advantage of the 150-year-old forest encompassing the grounds with another trail through the grounds. The 2.6-mile course incorporates an open air trim trail – a progression of settled timber practice stations.
Each of the nine schools have roughly 26 brandishes groups and their own one of a kind bar and understudy social space.
Honor winning eateries and a few bistros serving quality, privately sourced, supportable sustenance.
Incapacity Services
Visit the site for data about the incapacity benefit at Lancaster University.
Understudies' Union
Lancaster University Students' Union endeavors to mirror the genuine understudy voice and offers an extensive variety of administrations that support and upgrade the Lancaster encounter.
The union attempts to advance the perspectives of its individuals all through their time at Lancaster, with a thorough scholastic representation framework and a complete system of officers covering all parts of understudy life.
Offering a developing scope of volunteering opportunities and encouraging an incredible scope of abroad encounters, the union gives chances to self-improvement that help Lancaster understudies pick up employability aptitudes and graduate as adjusted, certain people.
More than 230 clubs and social orders suiting all hobbies are partnered to the union, which leads the pack in advancing both focused and recreational game. The Roses Tournament, the yearly donning conflict with York University, is a standout amongst the most enthusiastically anticipated occasions in the Lancaster University schedule.
Free fair-minded guidance and backing is accessible to understudies, with about 200 noteworthy bits of casework taken up in 2014. And also offering imperative peaceful administrations, the union additionally runs The Sugarhouse – Lancaster's most secure and most well known understudy club – and offers a different scope of business administrations including on-grounds shops and a lettings organization.
The union sorts out a wide assortment of prominent occasions that join the grounds group, including a yearly Christmas showcase, Campus Festival, the prevalent Graduate Ball and the end-of-year "Extrav" occasions facilitated at each of the college's schools.
Accessibility of Part-Time Work
Lancaster University has an on-grounds enrollment office. This administration handles the greater part of the low maintenance work opportunities offered by the University, guaranteeing that all understudies profit by a solitary purpose of contact and reasonable access to the paid work that is accessible.
This administration additionally works with neighborhood businesses for both low maintenance and full-time positions. Understudies and graduate are in this way ready to profit by a committed University-run administration to help them look for some kind of employment amid and after their studies.
Staff likewise work with understudies and graduates, giving assist and guidance in regard to occupation chasing, successful applications, meeting execution, and so forth.
Get some answers concerning the accessibility of low maintenance work at Lancaster University on the web.
Vocations Guidance
Vocations backing is given midway, through the resources and inside of the Colleges. Likewise understudies and graduates profit by an extensive online administration and bundle of computerized assets.
Singular counsel and direction, access to bosses, work encounter, positions, volunteering, rivalries, enrollment occasions, contact with graduated class, coaching, employability recompenses, individual and expert advancement opportunities, and so on are accessible.
For more subtle elements of the help and counsel accessible from our professions benefit.
Graduates are likewise ready to get to our administrations for whatever length of time that they have to. This is simply some portion of our dedication to supporting the vocation movement of all understudies and alumni from Lancaster University.
Later/Prospective New Builds
Over £450 million has been put into the grounds in the most recent ten years with a further £135 million arranged throughout the following three years.
Another best in class designing building opened in January 2015.
New showing research facilities have