Teaching
The University's fundamental mission is the advancement and dissemination of knowledge.
Teaching - both undergraduate and postgraduate courses - is our core business.
We aim to produce graduates equipped for both personal and professional achievement. Our courses reflect this through up-to-date content that is informed by the latest developments in research and responsive to the needs of employers and industry.
Students have access to modern facilities and equipment, and we use a variety of teaching methods to enable all our students to fulfil their potential.
We also help students to develop personal and professional skills such as presentation skills, computing skills, communication and teamwork.
Flexible undergraduate programmes
The range of subjects covered in the College of Science and Engineering, combined with courses available to our students provided by other parts of the University, allow an almost unparalleled choice of options for study.
Science and Engineering undergraduate students can explore other disciplines within the College's teaching programme, or look further afield, with opportunities to take courses in humanities and social science subjects during their first year of study.
We offer:
- Over 100 different undergraduate degree courses in all areas of science and engineering.
- A vast range of subjects, from genetics to artificial intelligence, chemical engineering to geophysics, astronomy to electrical engineering.
- Combined honours with management, business or European studies and courses with industrial experience.
- Flexible degree pathways and the opportunity to change direction during study.
- A four-year honours degree giving both a broad scientific education and the opportunity to specialize.
- Non-graduating and short courses
Innovative postgraduate research and transferable skills
Our acknowledged research excellence and our strong links with many research institutes outside the University guarantee an exciting and cutting-edge research environment.
We offer more than 30 taught courses, mainly leading to the degree of Master of Science (MSc).
Research programmes lead towards the degree of PhD (Doctor of Philosophy) or EngD (Doctor of Engineering). We cover all areas of science and engineering, including a vast range of subjects, from genetics to artificial intelligence, chemical engineering to geophysics, astronomy to electrical engineering.
Postgraduate teaching and research supervision is carefully reviewed to ensure that all students receive the best standards of support.
For all postgraduates we also provide an innovative, tailored programme of research and transferable skills development training.
In addition, we offer professional development courses and other opportunities for lifelong learning.
Demographics
The College offers an incredibly diverse learning environment.
We are composed of seven major academic units reflecting broad areas of research and teaching, with a number of Centres and Institutes promoting collaboration and cross-disciplinary research.
Student body
Our study body has a total population of almost 8,000.
Some additional facts about our students:
- over 5,900 are undergraduate students
- more than 1,900 are postgraduate students
- around 7% of our undergraduates are overseas (non-EU) students
- nearly one third of our postgraduates are overseas students
- mature and part-time students make up approximately 8% of total student numbers
This article was published on Aug 3, 2010