University of Leicester

花费Fee

生活费／周Catered costs £127-£228

英国欧盟UK/EU fees £9,000

国际学生Fees (international) £13,355-£16,525

地址Address

University Road, Leicester, LE1 7RH

Performance		Score 数值	Ranking 排名
2015 Times Ranking	2015年泰晤士报排名		20
2014 Times Ranking	2014年泰晤士报排名		14
World Ranking	世界排名		211
Student satisfaction	学生满意度	83.2%	39
Research quality	研究质量	20%	38
Ucas entry points	本科录取水平	401	37
Graduate prospects	毕业生展望	73.9%	36
Firsts and 2:1s	1等及2等1学位比例	79%	18
Completion rate	完成度	93.1%	22
Student-staff ratio	学生-老师比	12.9:1	14
Services/facilities spend	服务/设施花费	£2,384	9
Graduate salaries	毕业生起薪	£20,747
Sports points/rank	体育	623.5	50

Social mix	学生情况	Score数值
Undergraduate (full-time)	本科全日制人数	9,965
Postgraduate (full-time)	研究生全日制人数	3,660
Applications/places	申请人数／录取人数	20,600/3,250
Applications/places ratio	申请录取率	6.3:1
EU students	欧盟学生	4.9%
Other overseas students	海外学生	15.9%
Mature	成年学生	15.1%
State school educated	公立学校教育	89.5%
Middle class/working class	中产／工薪比率	73,8/26.2

Student satisfaction 学生满意度
Subject	科目领域	％
American Studies	美国研究	89.0
Anatomy & Physiology	解剖和生理学	91.3
Archaeology	考古学	87.4
Biological Science	生物科学	86.4
Business Studies	商务研究	74.0
Chemistry	化学	84.3
Communication & Media Studies	传媒和媒体研究	81.1
Computer Science	计算机科学	77.4
Economics	经济学	85.0
English	英语	84.5
French	法语	89.5
General Engineering	通用工程	64.8
Geography & Environmental Science	地理和环境科学	83.6
Geology	地质学	91.9
History	历史	85.7
History of Art, Architecture & Design	艺术、建筑和设计史	85.8
Iberian Languages	伊比利亚语	93.4
Law	法律	83.1
Mathematics	数学	80.4
Medicine	医学	75.3
Pharmacology and Pharmacy	药理学和药剂学	86.8
Physics and Astronomy	物理和天文学	88.2
Politics	政治	83.9
Psychology	心理学	82.8
Social Policy	社会政策	83.9
Sociology	社会学	85.3

助学金／奖学金Bursaries/scholarships

Household income below £25K or completed approved Compact Scheme, a bursary of £1,000 a year.

Academic scholarship of £1,000 fee waiver for those with specified A level (or equivalent) grades. Enhanced student hardship fund.

大学概况University Profile

Leicester came within a hair’s breadth of winning our University of the Year title last year, an acknowledgement of an approach to higher education that does not see teaching and research as mutually exclusive operations.

The university has also marked itself out with significant research successes, notably the locating and identification of the body of Richard III beneath a local car park, egalitarian student recruitment practices, and the accuracy of one of the more memorable university marketing department slogans: elite without being elitist.  

The university was founded as a memorial to the fallen of the First World War and it is playing a full part in the commemoration of the war’s centenary. But it is a connection with a much earlier period that continues to push the university into the headlines.   

The discovery by its archeologists of the body of Richard III has raised the profile of the university like never before. Both applications and enrolments rose in 2013, as Leicester won a string of awards.

Archeology is one of a number of subjects in which the university excels and which have been moving it up into the top 20 in our league table. Leicester is in the top 20 for staffing levels and in the top 10 for spending on student facilities. Leicester also produces consistently high scores in the National Student Survey, a pattern maintained this year. Biology and genetics achieved 100% overall satisfaction scores. The university has been trialling the use of social media to improve feedback in an attempt to increase satisfaction levels even more.  

Leicester has shown the scale of its ambitions with a £1bn development plan. The Queen opened the £32m library in 2008, and another £16m has been spent more recently on an award-winning students’ union. A new £42m Centre for Medicine will open in 2015, housing social care education, health sciences and psychology, as well as the medical school.

It represents the largest investment in medical teaching and applied research by a UK university in the last decade and follows the opening of a £12.5m cardiovascular research centre. Clinical medicine is taught at the city’s three hospitals, but all other teaching and much of the residential accommodation is concentrated in a leafy suburb a mile from the city centre. The new David Wilson library has doubled the available space and brought the total number of workspaces to 1,500.   

Little more than 10,000 full-time undergraduates are based on the main campus, but substantial postgraduate and distance learning programmes bring Leicester close to the size of other big city universities.   

The undergraduate population is the most socially diverse of any university in our top 20. Nearly nine out of 10 undergraduates come from state schools and more than a quarter are from working-class homes.   The university has recently introduced a number of employability initiatives, including a new undergraduate internship programme which promises to make up to 500 paid internships available per year.   

The refurbished students’ union has won numerous design awards and was named as the NUS students’ union of the year in 2013. It is the only union in the country to contain an O₂ Academy, which has hosted gigs from the likes of Kasabian and Noah and the Whale.   

Leicester entered a much larger proportion of its academics than many of its peers in the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise, thereby depressing its scores but producing a big increase in research funding. The star performers were the nine entrants in museum studies, who produced the highest proportion of world-leading research in any subject at any UK university.   

The university also has a long-established reputation in space science, with Europe’s largest university-based space research facility, including the £52m National Space Centre. The genetics department, where DNA genetic fingerprinting was discovered by Sir Alec Jeffreys in 1984, has helped make Leicester’s academics among the most cited in Britain.  

The university believes in blending teaching and research: it was the only institution to see three of its academics awarded National Teaching Fellowships in 2014, adding to an already impressive total.   

Extensive residential accommodation includes a £21m 600-bed ensuite development. The university has over 4,000 student bed spaces so first years are guaranteed a residential place. New facilities at Oadby Student Village being added over the summer of 2014 include group study areas, social spaces, cinema room and a refurbished bar. Many second- and third-year students also live in hall, although the majority choose to live in the reasonably priced private accommodation available nearby.   

The main sports facilities are conveniently located: in 2013–14, students will pay £115 a year to use them. As a city, Leicester is not one of the most fashionable student destinations, but its ethnic diversity makes for a rich cultural experience, and in term-time (with De Monfort University also in town) 12% of the population are students.   

It is big enough to provide all the normal sports and entertainment opportunities, but also offers events such as the biggest Diwali celebrations outside India.    

Student view

Michael Rubin, students’ union president

First impressions

The Attenborough Tower looks like a cheese grater, the Charles Wilson Building nick named Optimus Prime and the engineering building shaped like a boat.

Worst feature

You can’t roll out of bed to a lecture the halls of residence are a good 15 minutes’ walk away.

Making a difference

All the discoveries Leicester has made from the King in the car park to DNA finger printing.

Deal clincher

We’re the only union with an O2 Academy on campus and get the likes of Kasabian and Bastille.