哈伯亚当斯大学

Harper Adams University

花费Fee 

生活费／周Catered costs £95-£158

英国欧盟UK/EU fees £9,000

国际学生Fees (international) £10,000

地址Address

Edgmond, Newport, TF10 8NB

Performance		Score 数值	Ranking 排名
2015 Times Ranking	2015年泰晤士报排名		63
2014 Times Ranking	2014年泰晤士报排名		64
World Ranking	世界排名
Student satisfaction	学生满意度	85.3%	13
Research quality	研究质量	2%	94
Ucas entry points	本科录取水平	342	56
Graduate prospects	毕业生展望	67%	57
Firsts and 2:1s	1等及2等1学位比例	52.8%	115
Completion rate	完成度	88.3%	45
Student-staff ratio	学生-老师比	19.8:1	88
Services/facilities spend	服务/设施花费	£1,183	104
Graduate salaries	毕业生起薪	£19,753
Sports points/rank	体育	102	100

Social mix	学生情况	Score数值
Undergraduate (full-time)	本科全日制人数	2,195
Postgraduate (full-time)	研究生全日制人数	65
Applications/places	申请人数／录取人数	2,785/695
Applications/places ratio	申请录取率	4:1
EU students	欧盟学生	1.5%
Other overseas students	海外学生	2%
Mature	成年学生	5%
State school educated	公立学校教育	81%
Middle class/working class	中产／工薪比率	53.7/46.3

Student satisfaction 学生满意度
Subject	科目领域	％
Agriculture & Forestry	农业和林业	85.6
Animal Science	动物学	85.1
Food Science	食品科学	79.3
Mechanical Engineering	机械工程	86.4

哈珀亚当斯大学学院是一所提供学士、硕士、博士后课程的著名的英国国立大学，同时还提供哲学硕士(MPhil)和哲学博士(PhD)的课题研究。哈珀？亚当斯大学也是目前英国最大的农业院校，具有良好的教学、科研设施及学习、生活条件。百年以来，学校积累的丰富的教学、培训经验，和欧美多国有着广泛的培训、科研合作，培养了大批农业、食品、环境、农业工程以及农业经济领域内的国际人才。其开设的工程研究、商业与管理、农业科研系尤其著名。

作为英国优秀的农业高等院校，哈珀亚当斯将专业领域内的先进科技与国际市场的动态信息相结合，为政府政策制定人员和企业管理人员提供优质的科研和培训支持。

声誉

Harper Adams 是一所专业性大学，一般不参与英国高校综合排名。

最近一次高校综合排名(2008) 为全英第51名，商科排名第52.

哈珀亚当斯学院位于英国中部施罗普郡（Shropshire）的Newport镇，南北方向位于英国名城伯明翰和曼彻斯特之间，西邻威尔士，田园风光十分秀丽。从邻近的Stafford火车站乘火车约2.5小时可到达伦敦。

小镇有3个超级市场、几个商场和很多专卖店。距此15分钟路程就是特尔福德购物中心，拥有160多个商店、饭店、咖啡馆和一个10屏UCI电影院。

什罗普郡也是世界遗产铁桥谷所在地，这里是钢铁业的发祥地，世界上第一座铁制大桥的所在地。

生活条件

哈珀亚当斯大学学院为国际学生提供了满意的学习生活条件，学生2人共享一套公寓，公寓内配有厨房、灶具、卫生间、公共娱乐室及卫生服务人员。

5幢学生宿舍楼可提供住宿及全面的膳食服务。其中两个学生宿舍（哈里斯和格洛斯特宿舍）有全套设施，2006/2007年度费用为每周115英镑。另外3个学生宿舍提供公用的盥洗室和淋浴设施，2006/2007年度费用为每周105英镑。每周的费用包含周一至周五的一日三餐，每周一次洗衣服务、照明、供暖以及水电。膳食自理的宿舍在2006/2007年度的收费为每周72英镑。

学院的公寓房能容纳110名学生住宿，其中一部分是膳食自理的，2006/2007年度每周费用在60至95英镑之间。

申请条件

语言要求：TOEFL：560分；IELTS：6.5分 学历教育：本科，硕士，MBA

奖学金信息：国际奖学金。

奖学金授予范围和要求：农业、农艺科学、应用科学、生物化学、畜牧、生态学、环境、国际贸易、机械工程、娱乐和休闲、兽医科学、动物学。

金额：四种方式，每个可能颁发GBP1500。

奖学金／助学金Bursaries/scholarships

£1,000 Access to the Professions Bursary, for disadvantaged students and targeted at engineering, food and land management courses, under review in August 2014.

Range of scholarships and sponsorships available.

大学概况University Profile

Few universities boast a working farm among their prized teaching facilities, but 1,300 acres of arable and grazing land are central to Harper Adams mission. While its degree programmes have diversified markedly in recent years from the purely land-based, agriculture remains key.

Harper Adams gained university status as recently as 2012, having been The Sunday Times University College of the Year for the six preceding years on account of its consistently high standing in our institutional league table.

Only about half of its 4,000 students are on campus at any one time; the rest are on placement years or accredited part-time programmes in industry, an approach that yields strong graduate employment prospects.

Those prospects allied with consistently outstanding scores for student satisfaction push Harper Adams comfortably into the middle reaches of our league table. Harper Adams has been close to the top in the National Student Survey (NSS) in every year that it has been published, its students praising the personal attention they receive.

Based in a single campus in the Shropshire countryside, the university offers degrees in business, veterinary nursing and physiotherapy, land and property management, engineering and food studies, as well as agriculture. There is also a range of foundation degrees that can be converted into honours. New degrees in wildlife, conservation and resource management were added in 2013.

The university has been upgrading the teaching and research facilities, and also investing in new academic appointments. A new teaching block opened in May 2014, adding a 250-seat lecture theatre, IT classrooms, accessible computers and seminar rooms. The Agricultural Engineering Innovation Centre also opened in 2014 and a Veterinary Services Centre will follow later in the year to cope with rising demand for courses in veterinary nursing, clinical animal behaviour and veterinary physiotherapy.

The Faccenda Centre, opened in 2011, is located at the heart of the campus and acts as a hub for students with the students’ union, careers service and café under one roof. The building also contains social space with open access computers to allow students to work and socialise in the same space.

The Main Building, which dates from the opening of the institution in 1901, was once the centre of all campus activities with bedrooms, teaching rooms and even a shooting gallery.

The Bamford Library is one of the largest specialist land-based collections in the UK, 41,000 books and 3,000 journals. Open access computing areas are open 24 hours.

But the new university’s most prized feature is its 1,300-acre commercial farm, which has been undergoing a multimillion pound development, including expanded dairy, pig and poultry units and a new food research centre.

At the heart of the University Farm, Ancellor Yard is a redevelopment of the original farm courtyard, the former home of Thomas Harper Adams after whom the university is named. It houses the Frank Parkinson Farm Education Centre and the Frontier Crops Centre. The £2m dairy unit serves 400 cows and there is a £3m anaerobic digestion plant that provides 75% of the electricity used by the university, as well as organic fertiliser for the estate. The farm is also the source of a good proportion of the food – particularly lamb, pork and eggs – consumed on campus.

Not surprisingly, given its agricultural specialisms, the university is one of a shrinking band where male students marginally outnumber female. More than one undergraduate in five went to an independent school, but still nearly half have a working-class background.

Almost every course includes work placements, provided by a network of 500 regular placement employers, some of whom also endow student scholarships. The projected dropout rate of less than 7% is much better than the national average for the university’s courses and entry qualifications.

Only 19 staff members were entered for the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise, when 25 per cent of the work was judged to be internationally excellent. Since then, Harper Adams has become a new centre of excellence for entomology teaching and research in the UK and has launched the Soil and Water Management Centre, an industry-led initiative to help UK farming make the most of its two most precious assets.

It has also establishedthe Centre for Integrated Pest Management, a multidisciplinary team addressing UK and global issues in agricultural, forestry and horticultural crop production. New appointments have also boosted research excellence in precision livestock and arable farming, food studies, plant pathology, animal science and crop physiology.

There should be more than 800 residential places on campus in 2015 in 11 halls of residence. First years take priority in the allocation of places. A shuttle bus runs three times a day for students living in nearby Newport to get to campus and there is free parking for students.

Sports facilities include a gymnasium, heated outdoor swimming pool, rugby, cricket, football and hockey pitches, tennis courts and an all-weather sports pitch. There is a dance/fitness studio and even a 4x4 club, cars not earning students here the pariah status guaranteed on most other university campuses.

学生观点Student view

Thomas Mountain, students’ union president

First impressions

The majority here come to study land based skills which gives you an immediate affiliation with other students.

Worst feature

Make sure you befriend someone with a car as it can be quite isolated.

Making a difference

Every student gets to do a year in industry which gives you a clear direction after graduating.

Deal clincher

We get new facilities all the time sponsored by high profile companies within the agri-food supply chain.