阿伯泰大学Abertay University

阿伯泰大学的前身是1888年建立的邓迪科技学院。大学是一所友善的学府，拥有学生超过5000名，其中包括来自全球60多个国家的学生。66%的学生来自苏格兰，5%来自北爱尔兰，3％来自英格兰和威尔士，26%的学生为来自欧洲之外的留学生。学校的宗旨是“以学生为中心”，大学充足的资源配置和富有支持性的学习环境，以及对学生细致入微的照顾充分体现了这一点。阿伯泰大学位于泰河河畔的邓迪市中心，所有的建筑物都环绕在荣获多项大奖的大学The Bernard King图书馆周围，大学创造出了一个富有支持与友好氛围的学生环境。大学设有四个学院：计算机学和高级技术学院、邓迪商学院、当代科学学院以及社会与保健科学学院。

学术实力

• 英国唯一一所在电脑游戏技术和计算机技术两方面都获得官方认可的大学。
• 被授予为英国优秀电脑游戏的第一中心
• 世界领先的计算机游戏技术（Computer Game）课程
• 电脑艺术学位（Computer Artist），其支撑的创意产业，支持了英国各地600,000个就业机会，为英国经济贡献了200多亿英镑。
• 该校是苏格兰地区环境研究的最佳大学之一
• 英国投资IT设备，在苏格兰投资图书馆设备的顶尖大学之一
• 苏格兰法学研究、心理学研究、环境科学研究方面的领先现代大学（RAE2008）
• 经济学的教学被评为‘优秀’
• 是全英现代化的顶级大学之一
• 是最近五年中进步最大的英国大学之一

学校特色

学校拥有5,000名左右的学生，其中有17%的学生来自欧洲以外的国家，比如：中国、印度、马来西亚等。学校一共有四个学院：计算机和创新技术、当代科学、邓迪商学和健康与社会科学学院。其中计算机艺术和电脑游戏专业在世界上名列前茅。是英国唯一一所由官方授权开设电脑游戏技术和计算机艺术专业的学校。

地理环境

阿伯泰邓迪大学位于邓迪市市中心，大学所有设施都在1/4英里范围内，包括商店、酒吧、俱乐部、电影院和剧院等等，而距离汽车站和火车站仅有数分钟的步行距离。拥有143,000人口的邓迪以其多元化和创造性产业而闻名于英国乃至世界。同时，作为教育中心城市，邓迪是全英国人均学生率最高的城市之一，这也为邓迪的夜生活、娱乐休闲和文化设施带来了新的生机。

周边交通

大学周边有固定的公交线路。从Alloway Halls来的公交车白天7至8分钟就有一班。在车上你可以花2.6英镑买到DaySaver票，这样你白天乘坐Travel Dundee buses就没有限制了。或者也可以花69英镑买一张可以用10周的学生票。

住宿条件

分配宿舍是，学校给予新生和初次来邓迪的外国留学生已优先选择权。那些不想在学校提供的学生公寓入住的学生，宿管办公室会帮助你寻找合适的私人出租房。

住在学生公寓是极富乐趣的，而且能交到很多新朋友。在有独立炉灶的公寓，学生有独立卧室，共用一个厨房或客厅。这样既能为同学间的娱乐活动提供场所，也能保证独立卧室里安静的学习环境。住宿合同时长为一个学年，包括圣诞节和复活节，一般是36至38周。

各项设施

该校是计算机设施投资最高的英国大学；是全英大学图书馆设施投资最高的五所大学之一*；荣获多项奖的图书馆。

正如《金融时报》（2002年5月）*评论的那样，阿伯泰邓迪大学在投资学生用的计算机设施方面，居于领先地位。学生可使用电子与其他信息资源，这对于学习开设的每个课程至关重要；校园上下有供学生使用的联网计算机；每台电脑可供四名学生使用，这个比例是全英大学中最高之一。大学目前正在实施一项确保大学的硬件与软件都是行业标准的强化方案。这些设施使学生能免费使用因特网。

1998年6月女王陛下为大学的图书馆正式揭幕。图书馆内有设备齐全的教授信息与信息技术技能的讲座室、小组学习室、语言中心与自习室，以及法律专科图书馆。图书馆的某些部门24小时都供学生使用信息技术与学习设施，以及休息场所。

学生生活

大学目前在校园中心兴建全新的学生中心。大学认为该中心还将是设备精良的新学生会所在地，通过创建一流和充满活力的社交与文化设施来为邓迪市和大学未来的学生，提供先进与创新的设备。

目前的学生会离大学主楼步行只需五分钟。学生会除了提供食物、体育与娱乐活动之外，还开办其他娱乐项目，如主题夜晚‘学校迪斯科’、‘初次约会’和喜剧之夜、现场乐队表演、卡拉OK和猜谜夜晚。主办的活动反映了学生团体的多员文化特性，如庆祝印度的排灯节（Diwali Festival of Light）、中国的农历新年和“油腻的星期二节”。

Abertay University

2015 Rank: 106 ( 105 )

2015年泰晤士报排名：106（去年105）

Performance		Ranking排名
Ranking	整体排名	106
Student satisfaction	学生满意度	105
Research quality	研究质量	84
Ucas entry points	本科录取水平	69
Graduate prospects	毕业生展望	81
Firsts and 2:1s	1等及2等1学位比例	72
Completion rate	完成度	117
Student-staff ratio	学生-老师比	107
Services/facilities spend	服务/设施花费	73
Graduate salaries	毕业生起薪	£18,657
Sports points/rank	体育	94

Vital statistics	人数统计
Undergraduate	(full-time)	全日制	4,125
本科	(part-time)	半日制	290
Postgraduates	(full-time)	全日制	260
研究生	(part-time)	半日制	155
Applications/places	申请人数/名额数		5,540/1,115
Applications/places ratio	申请/名额比例		5:1

Social mix		学生比例
EU students	欧盟学生	8.9%
Other overseas students	海外学生	1.5%
Mature	成年学生	30.2%
State school educated	公立学校教育	93.6%
Middle class/working class		65.3%/34.7%

Bursaries/scholarships奖学金

For RUK students: household income below £27K, annual bursary £1,750; household income £17K–£24K, £1,000; household income £24K–£34K, £500. Merit award of ££1,000 for RUK students with ABB at A level or above.

Academic merit or personal achievement in music or sport scholarships, £1,500 per year.

Student satisfaction 学生满意度

Subject	科目领域	%
Nursing	护理	87.6
Law	法律	85.9
Subjects allied to medicine	医学相关	84.8
Archaeology	考古	81.8
Sport Science	体育科学	81.1
Psychology	心理学	80.9
Sociology	社会学	80.6
Computer Science	计算机	80.1
Biological Sciences	生物	79.7
Art and Design	艺术设计	79.5
Business Studies	商科	77.2
Civil Engineering	土木工程	62.9
Food Science	食品科学	60.9

University Profile 大学概况

Sony chose the renamed Abertay University as the site for the largest teaching laboratory in Europe for its PlayStation consoles - such is the international reputation the university has established in computer arts and games design. The new lab opened in February and builds on Abertay’s wider partnership with Sony Computer Entertainment Europe’s academic development programme. 

Abertay created Europe’s first research centre dedicated to computer games and digital entertainment, and more recently established a centre for research into systems pathology. It remains the only UK university with official accreditation for both computer games technology and computer arts: the university hosts the first Interactive Media Academy in the UK and also the first national Centre for Excellence in Computer Games Education. Its courses hold five of only 12 degree accreditations in these areas awarded by Skillset, the Government-sponsored training council for the creative industries. 

The university is upgrading its own IT facilities to match, investing £3m this year in an extensive programme of software upgrades and hardware replacement across the campus, including a new wifi network. Abertay has one of the highest ratios of PC-per-student in Britain, providing almost one computer for every four students.

But the university is not just about computer games. Abertay launched Scotland's first degrees in bioinformatics, biotechnology and ethical hacking, for example, and now claims to be a leader for teaching and research in environmental science. A series of specialist research centres has been established in areas as diverse as urban water systems, bioinformatics, earth systems and environmental sciences. The latest are in Sustainability Assessment Visualisation and Enhancement and Food and Innovation.

Environmental sciences, urban water engineering and intelligent systems engineering produced the best scores in the 2008 research assessments. Those for law and psychology were the best at any post-1992 Scottish university.

Based in the centre of Dundee, all the university’s teaching and learning buildings are within 5 minutes’ walk of each other. They are modern and functional, with new facilities being added gradually, such as the innovative White Space facility, the university’s flagship creative learning and working environment, where students study alongside industry professionals who are working on real commercial or broadcast projects. A new graduate school provides dedicated study space for postgraduates, as well as training and professional development opportunities.

The university doubled in size during the 1990s and has grown further since tuition fees were abolished for Scottish students, although there are still only about 5,500 students in total. Most are based in Dundee, but Abertay’s degrees are also taught as far away as Malaysia and China. The university enjoyed big increases in applications in the early years of this decade, but there was a 15% drop in 2013, when a number of Scottish institutions saw a similar decline. The numbers actually enrolling fell by only 120. 

Despite this year’s one place fall in our league table, Abertay has been gradually improving its position from a very low base. It now participates in the annual National Student Survey, dropping its resistance to the annual survey of final-year students’ opinions in 2012. Its relative success in seeing graduates into jobs has helped lift its overall standing in recent times.

Occasional suggestions that it might merge with neighbouring Dundee University – most recently in 2011 – have now subsided with the university now firmly on an independent path, even dropping the name Dundee from its title in the past year. Twenty years on from gaining university status, it is no longer the University of Abertay Dundee, just Abertay University.

Entrance requirements have been rising, although for most courses other than high-demand areas such as computer games, they are still modest. Well-qualified A-level students are eligible for direct entry into second year.

Degrees are predominantly vocational, with more subjects being added every year. Food and consumer sciences, creative sound production, and ethical hacking and digital forensics are recent examples. All courses can be taken on a part-time basis, and new programmes aim to offer students the chance to spend at least 30% of their time in industry.

Undergraduates take a maximum of eight core modules a year plus options, completing a Certificate of Higher Education after one year, a diploma after two, an ordinary degree after three, or honours in four years. The dropout rate has been improving and is now one in ten – considerably better than average for its courses and entry qualifications. Abertay is piloting problem-based and work-based approaches to learning across a wide range of courses, focusing on real-world issues and teamwork rather than sitting in conventional lectures.

A 500-bed student village opened in 2010 and new premises for a £5m Business Prototyping Project to support the UK’s creative industries followed in 2011. The university hosts the Dundee Academy of Sport, which it launched in partnership with Dundee and Angus College – a unique venture using sport as a vehicle for learning across the school curriculum and throughout life. 

Dundee has seen considerable investment recently. The city has a large student population and the cost of living is modest. Around 30% of the undergraduates are over 21 on entry, many living locally. This lifts the pressure on university-owned beds sufficiently to allow all first-years to be given priority for accommodation. 

Student view 学生观点

Richard Cook, students’ association president

First impressions第一印象

Lots of investment recently, so everything looks exciting and new.

Worst feature 不好的地方

There’s a school next door and you’d get your sausage rolls a lot faster if it wasn’t for those pesky kids.

Making a difference 希望改变哪里

Widening access is a priority here and student services offers support and access to discretionary funds.

Deal clincher 特点

Abertay is focused on the future and constantly adapting to new technology and trends.