白金汉大学University of Buckingham

学费Tuition Fee

英国欧盟UK/EU fees £12,570-£13,077

国际学生Fees (international) £17,289-£17,808

地址Address

Hunter Street, Buckingham, MK18 1EG

Performance		Score 数值	Ranking 排名
2015 Times Ranking	2015年泰晤士报排名		48
2014 Times Ranking	2014年泰晤士报排名		41
World Ranking	世界排名
Student satisfaction	学生满意度	85.1%	17
Research quality	研究质量
Ucas entry points	本科录取水平	330	69
Graduate prospects	毕业生展望	75.3%	30
Firsts and 2:1s	1等及2等1学位比例	43.5%	123
Completion rate	完成度	80.2%	104
Student-staff ratio	学生-老师比	11.3:1	3
Services/facilities spend	服务/设施花费	£1,894	34
Graduate salaries	毕业生起薪	£24,175
Sports points/rank	体育

Social mix	学生情况	Score数值
Undergraduate (full-time)	本科全日制人数	1,305
Postgraduate (full-time)	研究生全日制人数	675
Applications/places	申请人数／录取人数	1,901/160
Applications/places ratio	申请录取率	11.9:1
EU students	欧盟学生	10.3%
Other overseas students	海外学生	41.9%
Mature	成年学生	19.1%
State school educated	公立学校教育	79.3%
Middle class/working class	中产／工薪比率	68.7/31.3

Student satisfaction 学生满意度
Subject	科目领域	％
Business Studies	商务研究	81.4
Economics	经济学	82.4
English	英语	89.5
Law	法律	83.3

基本介绍

英国白金汉大学是全英唯一一所非营利性的私立独立大学，1976年以白金汉大学学院的名字创立，1980年获得英国女王的特许状后正式升格为大学。作为皇家宪章的持有者，大学有权颁授学位，其学历国际认可，与中国教育部实现中英学历互认。作为一所特别的大学，大学规模也是全英最小的，大概拥有2000名学生，而因为小规模的学生，我们可以保证较好的师生比例11.3:1，使学生能尽可能的与导师进行互动。学生来自世界上八十多个不同的国家和地区。

作为英国唯一皇室特许的独立性大学，白金汉大学在专业上提供高品质的两年制本科教育。由于合理地利用暑期安排教学，一般需要攻读三年才能取得的本科学位在白金汉大学仅需两年时间。相对于其他英国大学而言，既节省了一年的时间和在英国的开销，又保障了课时数。

白金汉大学位于白金汉北部乡间的一座小镇，距离牛津很近(12英里)，距离伦敦58英里，驱车由这里前往伦敦希思罗国际机场仅需一小时。该大学不依靠政府拨款办学，因此能够开设创新性的课程，根据工商企业需求的变化迅速调整教学内容。

白金汉大学皇室特许的独立性使得大学没有任何政府资金来源，因而不在政府学术研究体系之内，在该排名的学术研究因无法参考而不计分。尽管如此，白金汉大学仍以较强的实力位居2014TIMES英国大学排名第41名。另外，白金汉大学在三项评比中名列前茅：学生满意度、师生比和就业前景。

地理位置

白金汉大学坐落于英国英格兰东南部白金汉郡白金汉，离伦敦大约2小时车程。学校包含两个校区：VERNEY PARK（LAW, PSYCHOLOGY AND APPLIED AND COMPUTING）以及HUNTER STREET CAMPUS（商学院及人文学院）。

学校特色

白金汉大学是在多个研究领域享有一定声誉的领头人。

教育与就业研究中心

教育与就业研究中心致力于应用研究领域。中心开展的研究工作包括：教师培养、国际教育成果对比、资质评定构架、继续教育改革、科学与工程学走向、高等教育门槛研究、男女合校教育，学校技术力量以及职业教育等。

狄更斯杂志网络版

迪更斯杂志网络版研究的目的是创建一个完整的网络版狄更斯周刊，在全年运用那些平民化的词语，到2012年2月查尔斯·狄更斯诞辰200周年时，用来纪念这位伟大的作家。

科洛尔实验室糖尿病、肥胖症和新陈代谢研究

科洛尔实验室是一个国际认可的研究课题组，在多个领域开展了卓有成效的研究，如：分子遗传学、生物化学、药物学、新陈代谢疾病中的营养和生理因素，尤其针对糖尿病和肥胖症。

法律和家庭多文化研究中心

中心的特质是其对很多真实的司法案例研究分析，从而发现需要从宗教、种族和社会等多元文化角度，探索多文化背景下的司法方式。中心为想要获得研究学位的学生提供督导、组织研讨、讲授课程，并召开学术会议等服务。

商学院研发中心

商学院将建立研发中心，从事商务创造和管理的教学人员现已到位。学院已经成立以下几个研发中心：

• 自动管理中心
• 服务管理中心
• 皇家特许市场营销研究院
• 社会商务博士课程

应用计算机系：移动/无线通信，生物信息学

应用计算机系涵盖了图像/视频处理和分析技术，无线移动网络技术和为受限制的设备/环境所设的以计量生物学为基础的鉴定。

应用计算机系与欧盟FP6资助的两个项目合作：安全电话项目和宽带广域网项目。系里与多个欧洲研究所合作，包括奥地利格拉茨技术大学、意大利国家电子计算大学中心、比萨、泰利斯、汤姆森、泰利诺集团、德国RAL公司、奥地利萨尔茨堡、西班牙电信集团、法国源讯、德国萨尔布吕肯大学、意大利INFORMA公司以及法国国立高等电信学校等。

学术优势

白金汉大学提供的两年本科的课程让学生以最快的速度最小的销来完成学业白金汉大学有别与其它英国大学。它能够给予学生与众不同的经历。学校的人数也没有英国其他院校那么多，大概在8000人左右，国际学生约占11%，这使得学生们感觉生活在一个大家庭里，也为学生之间的友谊打下了坚实的基础。

英国高等教育以其高质量而享誉全世界。白金汉大学因其独立而闻名，并在皇家宪章的允许下作为一所大学而独立运作。2003年，大学通过了政府质量保证机构的严格评审。

奖学金

中国学生可以申请白金汉大学的开放奖学金（Open Scholarship）。它包括本科和硕士在内的6类奖学金，每年至少18个名额。

学校为学生公开提供以下各类奖学金：

• 翁达捷奖学金
• Ray Tindle爵士奖学金
• 安东尼洛希尔奖学金
• 海德利奖学金
• 学校奖学金
• 保罗戴维斯奖学金

学生服务

全体一年级学生均可住宿，许多学生可以一直住到二年级。大多数学生住在校内专门建造的宿舍里。每座宿舍楼均有一位住宿助理进行管理。校方将指定一些学生负责保障住宿生的福利。这些学生负责欢迎新生，帮助新生在宿舍中安顿妥当。

福利与教导制度至关重要，学生将能够获得个别辅导员的帮助，学生顾问以及福利工作人员将随时提供帮助。图书馆与计算机服务部的规模不断扩大，为课程教学提供支持服务，以及各种印刷出版的资料与电子信息。遍布整个校园的计算机网络为学生使用国际互联网以及电子邮件提供了便利。学生可以在校内参加各种体育活动，来自不同国家的外国留学生成立了名目繁多的外国留学生俱乐部，全年举办各种文化盛会。学生自助食堂的膳食供应品种多样，能够满足各国留学生的需要。在当地还有多处就餐与聚会的地点。

奖学金助学金Bursaries/scholarships

Note that the course only lasts two years. Household income below £42.6K, bursary of £1,100 a year.

Academic scholarship of £2,500 for students (excluding medicine) with at least ABB or equivalent at A level; continued in other years based on academic performance. Four counties scholarship of £2,500 a year for students from Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire, Northamptonshire and Oxfordshire.

大学概况University Profile

Buckingham is launching the UK’s first private not-for-profit medical school, with the first students arriving in January 2015. The course will be 4.5 years long, modelled on the University of Leicester’s MBChB programme, and will cost £35,000 a year – in line with the overseas rate at other medical schools.

The university has had a postgraduate medical school for six years, which attracts overseas medical graduates who find it difficult to secure junior doctor posts as a result of Government restrictions. The undergraduate school is a long-held ambition of the university and will provide clinical placements at Milton Keynes NHS Hospital Trusts and other local providers.

When Buckingham begins turning out graduates from the new undergraduate medical school in late 2019, it will only add to the university’s excellent reputation for graduate employability. Our measure of graduate prospects consistently places Buckingham among the best in Britain.

Buckingham was for many years Britain’s only private university, and it is still the only one in our main league table. It re-entered the ranking three years ago after an absence of more than a decade and is now just outside the top 40. Buckingham had too few students to be classified in some measures in the intervening period, but has seen significant growth in the last few years. The total number of students increased from 1,300 in 2010 to 2,000 in 2012, when applications grew by an unprecedented 200%.

With the influx of students, the ratio of students to staff has increased slightly, but staffing levels are still among the best in the UK. The university has also boosted spending on student facilities, refurbishing the refectory, introducing Wi-Fi across the whole campus and expanding the library and teaching space.

Buckingham’s students remain among the most satisfied in the National Student Survey (NSS). Taking he NSS, graduate prospects and the student-staff ratio in isolation, Buckingham would rank among the top five universities in the UK. Somewhat less startling performance in some of our other performance indicators – and its absence from the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise which was restricted to state-funded institutions – pulls the university down to its still highly respectable overall ranking of 48.

Even before the latest rise in fees elsewhere, Buckingham claimed to be no more expensive than other universities because its intensive two-year degrees cut maintenance costs and accelerate entry into employment. Total fees for UK undergraduates taking the two-year degree from January 2015 will be £25,647 for home and EU students and £35,097 for those from outside the EU.

There is a range of scholarships for both home and international candidates. All (bar medical) students who make Buckingham their firm choice and achieve ABB or better at A-level get a £2,500 high achievers annual bursary, as do those students who attend hailing from Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Bedfordshire or Northamptonshire (although students cannot hold both scholarships).

The university, which will celebrate its 40th anniversary in 2016, commonly uses small group tutorials, which have all but disappeared outside Oxbridge. The average tutorial group contains about six students.

A Conservative-backed experiment of the 1970s, Buckingham has long been an accepted part of the university system. Its degrees carry full currency in the academic world and teaching standards are high. The university’s culture of responsiveness to students was praised by the Quality Assurance Agency in its report on the university last year. The university has a number of research groups and over 170 research students. Research income in 2011 was around £512,000.

Its own statement on its independence declares that Buckingham was founded on the principles of classical liberalism, and teaches the ideals of free-thinking and liberal political thought. Professor Terence Kealey, a biochemist and libertarian commentator, has been Vice-Chancellor since April 2001, declaring an ambition for Buckingham to “one day” challenge the cream of American higher education.

Students can begin courses in January, July or September. Most degree courses run for two 40-week years, minimising disruptive career breaks for the many mature students. Around half of the students are from overseas, but the proportion from Britain isgrowing. They have the option of a conventional three-year degree in the humanities and other schools are now following suit. The BA in art history and heritage management offers the opportunity of a term at the British Institute in Florence. 

A new Foundation Department provides English language tuition for those with an IELTS score below 6.5. There are also International Foundation Programmes and a Pre-master’s for Business for those whose first degree is not in a business-related subject.

Buckingham operates on two sites within walking distance of each other at the heart of the county town. The main campus includes the refectory, bar and fitness centre, with the Radcliffe Centre, which hosts internal and external events, nearby. The law school is a short distance from the main campus. Two historic buildings have been refurbished at a cost of almost £2m, and a new six-acre site has been acquired to make room for future expansion.

Not surprisingly the social scene is quiet. A great benefit of being in leafy middle England is that Buckingham’s campus has been judged to be the safest in the country, but this is not the place for you if clubbing and partying are priorities alongside studying. There is a university cinema, and the town of Buckingham is pretty, with a good selection of pubs and restaurants. Milton Keynes and Oxford are nearby.  

学生观点Student view

Yoginee Thamothiram, students’ union president

First impressions

You’re surrounded by different nationalities and immersed in diverse cultures as soon as you arrive.

Worst feature

Buckingham is expensive: shopping online, even for food, is cheaper and quicker.

Making a difference

Our annual plastic duck race brings the town and students together.

Deal clincher

One-hour tutorials involve just four to six students.