St Mary's University, Twickenham

花费Fee

生活费／周Catered costs £110-£178

英国欧盟UK/EU fees £9,000

国际学生Fees (international) £9,900

地址Address

Waldegrave Road, Strawberry Hill, Twickenham, TW1 4SX

Performance		Score 数值	Ranking 排名
2015 Times Ranking	2015年泰晤士报排名		100
2014 Times Ranking	2014年泰晤士报排名
World Ranking	世界排名
Student satisfaction	学生满意度	80.6%	82
Research quality	研究质量	2.7%	89
Ucas entry points	本科录取水平	294	104
Graduate prospects	毕业生展望	63.8%	69
Firsts and 2:1s	1等及2等1学位比例	60.7%	93
Completion rate	完成度	81.5%	96
Student-staff ratio	学生-老师比	22.4:1	115
Services/facilities spend	服务/设施花费	£1,005	115
Graduate salaries	毕业生起薪	£20,029
Sports points/rank	体育	517.5	61

Social mix	学生情况	Score数值
Undergraduate (full-time)	本科全日制人数	3,470
Postgraduate (full-time)	研究生全日制人数	390
Applications/places	申请人数／录取人数	5,535/1,305
Applications/places ratio	申请录取率	4.2:1
EU students	欧盟学生	2.5%
Other overseas students	海外学生	2.4%
Mature	成年学生	16.9%
State school educated	公立学校教育	96%
Middle class/working class	中产／工薪比率	64.4/35.6

Student satisfaction 学生满意度
Subject	科目领域	％
Biological Science	生物科学	81.1
Business Studies	商务研究	79.1
Communication & Media Studies	传媒和媒体研究	78.4
Creative Writing	创造性写作	75.9
Drama, Dance & Cinematics	戏剧舞蹈和电影研究	79.3
Education	教育	84.0
English	英语	83.7
Food Science	食品科学	78.1
Geography & Environmental Science	地理和环境科学	79.1
History	历史	87.7
Hospitality, Leisure, Recreation & Tourism	酒店休闲娱乐和旅游	82.7
Law	法律	78.7
Philosophy	哲学	78.9
Psychology	心理学	76.5
Sociology	社会学	80.1
Sport Science	体育科学	79.9
Subjects allied to medicine	医学相关	77.8
Theology & Religious Studies	神学和宗教研究	87.1

奖学金／助学金Bursaries/scholarships

Household income below £25K and meeting specific criteria, £3,000 cash, fee waiver or accommodation discount, year 1; £2,000 cash, year 2; £1,000 cash, year 3.

Household income below £42.6 K and AAB at A level or equivalent, £4,000 cash, fee waiver or accommodation discount, year 1; if grade of at least 60% achieved when progressing from one year to the next, then £2,000 cash, year 2, and £1,000 cash year 3.

大学概况University Profile

St Mary’s is the only new university established since our last edition of this guide having missed out on university status when a dozen other colleges were promoted in 2012.

St Mary’s, which has 5,000 students, including 1,200 postgraduates, is the third Catholic institution to become a university recently. It has four academic schools and a strong tradition in sport, which enabled it to attract the first Mo Farah Academy to develop outstanding young athletes. The academy, established by St Mary’s graduate Farah and his wife Tania, will support training programmes at St Mary’s and at Brunel University, as well as providing scholarships for eight top prospects a year. The university will be a team base for South Africa and New Zealand at next year’s Rugby World Cup.

St Mary’s was founded in Hammersmith in 1850 by the Catholic Poor Schools Committee to meet the need for teachers for the growing numbers of impoverished Catholic children, and moved along the river to Twickenham in 1925.

The spectacular Gothic Strawberry Hill House has been its centrepiece ever since, and is undergoing a £9m restoration. The house was designed and created as a Gothic fantasy between 1747 and 1792 by Horace Walpole, the son of Britain’s first prime minister. It is set in 35 acres of gardens and parkland close to the Thames, with a variety of modern teaching and residential accommodation.

The site constitutes the main campus and there is a hall of residence nearby in Twickenham, while the main sports fields are located in neighbouring Teddington. An £8.5m sports centre opened there in 2011 with facilities good enough for 10 national teams to choose it for pre-Olympic training. A new library, costing £6m, should be fully open by the start of the academic year in 2015.

Other recent improvements include a £350,000 upgrade of the student television studio, which opens this September. There is also a new computer suite with the latest Apple MacPro workstations, offering students 24-hour access to professional grade creative technologies.

Only a third of today’s students are training to be teachers – contributing to the university’s decent showing for graduate prospects – and there are growing numbers taking sport, theatre studies and theology. Sixty per cent of the students are female and about 10% come from outside the UK. There are nearly 500 undergraduate programmes, including a range of foundation degrees, mainly in the arts and social sciences or sport.

The four academic schools cover sport, health and applied science, education, theology and leadership, management and social sciences and the arts and humanities. St Mary’s resisted charging the full £9,000 fees for its degrees until 2014, and even in 2015 entrants to foundation degrees will pay no more than £4,500 a year.

Over 35% of the UK undergraduates are from working-class homes and the university has a number of outreach schemes designed to broaden the intake further. The E-mentoring scheme, launched in 2013, in which current students help selected groups of school pupils throughout the academic year, has received excellent feedback from participants. Other initiatives provide academic support and monitor the progress of under-represented groups once they enter the university.

The university has appointed Francis Campbell, a career diplomat and one-time private secretary to Tony Blair, as its first vice-chancellor. A former ambassador to the Vatican, he helped to secure a Papal visit to St Mary’s in 2010.

The previous college principal left soon after a critical report by the Quality Assurance Agency on a new clinical hypnosis course led to the postponement of the original bid for university status. Campbell will take over discussions on a “strategic partnership” with Heythrop College, a part of the University of London and the capital’s other Catholic higher education institution, which specialises in theology and philosophy.

St Mary’s has a continued commitment to training teachers for Catholic and other Christian schools, although it admits students of all faiths and none. Its first stated objective is: “To be a distinctive institution within UK higher education, providing a unique experience for our students and staff by virtue of our values and identity as a Catholic university.”

Students like the combination of an attractive setting in southwest London that is only half an hour from the West End by train. Sports facilities are excellent attract elite performers. As well as European Championship gold medals for alumni Mo Farah and Jo Pavey, 2014 has seen two current undergraduates win gold medals as part of the victorious Great Britain rugby sevens team at the World University Championships.  

学生观点Student view

Ryan Jones, students’ union president

First impressions

Wow is the only word to describe it; you will be thrown in at the deep end but in the best possible way.

Worst feature

We are a small institution so if you do something embarrassing the whole campus will know about it - but it is like one big family.

Making a difference

Students have just returned from building homes and teaching in Ghana, and raised more than £3,000 for the Shocc (Support Strawberry Hill Overseas and Community Concern) charity.

Deal clincher

The feeling of being a "Simmie" - a part of the St Mary’s community.