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Business and management studies postgraduate and master's courses in 2014

Business and management studies
Name of InstitutionNumber of Full time studentsNumber of Part time students% Students from Outside UKExpenditure per student (/10)Student:staff ratioFT Completion RatePT Completion RateTuition Fees: Home/EU studentsTuition Fees: Overseas students
Aberdeen 222 32 85% 4 22.9 99% 88% £6,200* £14,500*
Abertay Dundee 50 18 56% 2 27.0 87% £3,400 £10,250
Aberystwyth 184 13 70% 4 23.1 85% £5,000 £11,750
Anglia Ruskin 521 260 63% 7 27.7 86% 93% £6,695 (MBA £12,900)* £10,000 (MBA £12,900)*
University of the Arts London 257 5 82% 9 30.0 93% £7,500-£8,500* £13,800 (1)
Aston 846 169 72% 9 23.7 93% 87% £9,000 (MBA £24,700)* £15,000 (MBA £24,700)*
Bangor 447 168 77% 6 31.4 98% 88% £4,500* £13,000-£18,000*
Bath 444 98 74% 8 19.4 99% 100% £11,000-£14,500 (MBA £28,000) £17,500-£22,500 (MBA £28,000)
Bedfordshire 2092 270 91% 5 27.9 89% 81% £4,500 (MBA £6,750) £9,900 (MBA £11,250)
Birkbeck 237 729 26% 4 22.5 100% 75% £6,250-£9,950 £13,950-£14,775
Birmingham 1781 145 85% 10 20.8 96% 92% £5,940-£11,070 (MBA £20,790) £13,665-£15,525 (MBA £20,790)
Birmingham City 595 232 67% 6 33.0 78% £3,300-£9,000* £10,300+*
Bolton 175 63 54% 4 29.9 £4,500 (MBA £8,500) £6,600 (MBA £12,500)
Bournemouth 581 79 87% 6 24.3 95% 84% £5,000-£9,000 (MBA £15,000)* £12,000-£14,000 (MBA £15,000)*
Bradford 333 471 42% 8 24.5 76% 82% £8,000-£24,950 £13,500-£24,950
Brighton 225 235 44% 3 24.0 95% 74% £6,552-£16,200 £11,840-£19,800
Bristol 123 26 77% 9 80% £11,000-£12,000 £18,000-£19,000
Brunel 642 41 88% 6 25.1 93% 70% £16,000 £20,000
Buckingham 58 1 75% 4 11.9 81% £8,400-£10,000 £13,860-£15,500
Bucks New University 87 170 41% 4 25.6 85% 82% £8,800* £10,600*
Cambridge 377 82 73% 9.2 100% 100%
Canterbury Christ Church 50 203 15% 3 23.4 75% 83% £2,850* £10,200*
Cardiff 668 66 88% 8 16.7 94% £6,345-£11,475* £15,990-£18,660*
Cardiff Met 1150 1805 89% 3 27.2 81% 98% £4,700* £11,500*
Central Lancashire 320 300 48% 5 22.0 90% 88% £5,000-£11,500 £11,450-£15,000
Chester 152 270 26% 3 17.2 83% 98% £4,000-£7,000 (MBA £10,125) £10,800 (MBA £11,100)
City 2461 786 65% 10 22.6 95% 92% £18,000-£24,000 (MBA £36,000) £18,000-£24,000 (MBA £36,000)
Coventry 1188 687 64% 5 14.3 86% 87% £4,125-£8,799 £8,638-£12,634
Cranfield University 678 623 52% 7.1 99% 88% £6,500 £13,000
Cumbria 8 48 23% 6 21.4 75% £4,500-£10,000 £10,500-£15,500
De Montfort 302 565 30% 3 30.7 81% 85% £6,500 (MBA £7,900)* £11,200-£11,700 (MBA £12,500)*
Derby 120 532 19% 4 21.7 86% £6,255+* £10,455+*
Dundee 187 1 92% 3 22.1 85% £5,000-£26,250 £10,500-£26,250
Durham 735 612 64% 8 25.6 93% 85% £9,900-£10,450 (MBA £25,000) £17,500-£20,000 (MBA £25,000)
East London 314 272 60% 3 31.3 73% 75% £6,600-£12,900* £11,400-£12,900*
Edge Hill 10 79 6% 3 19.8 99% 93% £8,000
Edinburgh 520 45 83% 10 22.5 95% 93% £11,850-£18,950 (MBA £27,100) £17,400-£20,550 (MBA £27,100)
Edinburgh Napier 654 397 51% 4 29.9 90% 72% £6,200 £11,410
Essex 304 48 86% 4 21.9 93% 75% £6,000-£16,950* £12,950-£16,950*
Exeter 831 90 83% 6 27.9 94% £9,500 (MBA £21,500) £15,000 (MBA £21,500)
Glasgow 1101 24 96% 6 30.2 99% 100% £8,300 £17,250
Glasgow Caledonian 621 391 47% 4 33.8 93% 70% £6,835* £10,400*
Glyndŵr 650 51 91% 3 27.3 65% £9,995 £8,600
Gloucestershire 139 159 46% 4 25.2 92% 86% £9,900 £12,500
Greenwich 533 244 68% 4 22.2 93% 86% £7,000-£12,500* £10,950-£13,350*
Heriot-Watt 429 1238 32% 29.9 82% £7,330 £13,500 (3)
Hertfordshire 1049 435 70% 4 22.0 89% 66% £5,450 £10,800
Highlands & Islands 8 54 11% 9 £7,740 £8,700 (3)
Huddersfield 362 389 45% 4 22.1 83% 70% £4,350-£13,500* £12,000-£13,500*
Hull 927 167 80% 6 29.9 91% 90% £5,000 £12,000-£14,400
Imperial College 717 363 57% 20.1 99% 99% £22,000-£29,000 (MBA £39,000) £22,000-£29,000 (MBA £39,000)
Keele 261 162 57% 4 25.6 76% 70% £5,500-£7,500 £11,500-£14,000
Kent 465 31 85% 6 18.9 98% 93% £4,950* £12,030 (1)
King's College London 330 54 68% 5 22.8 95% 90%
Kingston 536 662 42% 7 22.7 89% 82% £7,000-£9,800 (MBA £18,560) £12,100-£13,900 (MBA £18,560)
Lancaster 650 400 66% 7 20.3 96% 95% £9,750-£26,000 £15,600-£26,000
Leeds 1076 120 81% 10 23.5 96% 90% £5,100-£9,000 (MBA £18,000-£19,500 )* £14,000-£17,000 (MBA £18,000-£22,500)*
Leeds Met 547 366 56% 3 30.7 88% 94% £4,500-£13,500* £10,000-£13,500*
Leeds Trinity 8 196 86% 2 21.7 75% 90% * £11,000*
Leicester 474 686 40% 10 13.8 95% £9,220 £17,900
Lincoln 204 522 38% 3 26.2 85% £6,680-£13,068 £12,707-£18,158
Liverpool 627 345 63% 6 24.0 93% 74% £5,500-£12,000 £14,700-£17,800
Liverpool John Moores 237 272 39% 3 25.5 93% 82% £4,880-£5,000 £11,055-£11,925
London Business School 1124 884 74% 16.2 99% 100% £26,600-£64,200
London Met 653 712 52% 2 24.4 92% 92% £8,550-£10,980 £11,700-£13,500
London School of Economics 1080 110 87% 9 13.2 99% 91% £19,176-£28,656 £19,176-£28,656
London South Bank 522 818 29% 4 27.6 84% 76% £4,200-£12,285 £4,500-£12,285 (2)
Loughborough 446 461 53% 7 24.1 95% 81% £8,000-£10,500 £17,000
Manchester 1256 1190 54% 16.9 96% 85% £7,500-£34,400* £15,200-£38,000*
Manchester Met 414 469 32% 3 24.9 88% 84% £4,700-£5,700 £12,500
Middlesex 718 582 69% 6 29.5 90% 90% £9,000-£13,500 £12,000-£16,800
Newcastle 752 76 85% 6 23.1 95% 96% £5,500-£19,800 £12,075-£16,575 (1)
Northampton 353 408 43% 6 26.0 94% 82% £6,000 (MBA £8,550)* £10,250 (MBA £11,500)*
Northumbria 521 214 67% 5 22.8 87% 73% £8,100 (MBA £16,750) £13,100 (MBA £17,600)
Nottingham 980 149 76% 8 18.7 94% 100% £6,010-£23,000 £9,500-£22,000
Nottingham Trent 695 423 44% 4 21.6 88% 88% £4,750-£8,750* £11,100-£12,950*
The Open University 0 2443 0% 4 29.2 100% £6,000-£10,000
Oxford 267 420 68% 9.4 100% 98% £9,535-£61,133 £19,310-£61,133
Oxford Brookes 303 497 44% 7 19.5 97% 94% £8,000 £13,170
Plymouth 245 236 61% 6 20.6 89% 80% £5,000 (MBA £14,000) £12,250 (MBA £14,000)
Portsmouth 644 593 44% 5 22.7 87% 82% £4,500-£7,500 (MBA £17,600)* £7,330-£11,000 (MBA £17,600)*
Queen Margaret 12 323 14% 3 25.1 £6,000 £11,300
Queen Mary 489 140 74% 5 17.8 96% 78% £10,750-£11,750 £16,250-£17,500
Queen's, Belfast 194 269 25% 4 17.0 95% 78% £4,400* *
Reading 824 853 51% 16.6 99% 88% £12,000 £18,000
Robert Gordon 807 584 58% 4 20.3 89% 79% £4,000-£18,850* £18,850*
Roehampton 240 3 78% 3 28.5 83% £8,850 £14,400
Royal Agricultural University 67 12 54% 5 25.3 81% £9,000-£10,000 £11,000-£15,000
Royal Holloway 789 2 93% 4 22.0 92% £9,400 £15,100
Salford 523 374 48% 3 23.4 98% 92% £6,695-£16,495 £11,695-£16,495
Sheffield 471 50 82% 5 25.4 99% 86% £9,000-£19,760 £17,130-£19,760
Sheffield Hallam 674 1021 49% 4 25.8 92% 70% £6,000-£12,000 £11,250-£13,650 (1)
SOAS 134 13 55% 7 13.9 97% £7,015 £16,075
Glamorgan (USW) 653 616 50% 3 34.6 90% 75% £4,000-£9,000* £11,700-£12,100*
Southampton 750 80 86% 6 18.3 95% 86% £3,900-£23,500* £13,500-£23,500*
Southampton Solent 117 155 33% 3 27.9 85% 86% £4,500-£9,500 £10,610-£12,000
St Andrews 219 38 78% 6 18.9 93% 84% £3,900-£8,900* £8,750-£17,500*
St Mary's UC, Twickenham 0 40 38% 3 32.1 80% £4,000-£4,900 £10,500
Staffordshire 141 513 21% 6 19.3 88% £8,010 £11,000
Stirling 1106 86 90% 4 21.1 83% 67% £6,000-£12,900 £12,900-£15,900
Strathclyde 616 431 62% 9 24.8 96% 81% £7,200-£25,000 £13,200-£25,000
UC Suffolk 8 128 4% 25.1 £5,490-£9,900* £9,000-£9,900*
Sunderland 622 115 87% 10 19.8 91% £3,133-£9,400 £5,500-£11,750
Surrey 700 117 82% 7 26.3 86% £10,130 £17,130
Sussex 638 44 89% 4 24.2 98% £6,950* £14,100-£14,600*
Swansea 270 18 82% 4 32.0 96% 100% £3,930 £10,600
Teesside 272 370 42% 7 22.1 79% 77% £4,500 (MBA £10,000) £10,950-£12,950
Trinity Saint David 313 127 62% 9 19.8 82% £15,000
UCL 104 31 58% 10 14.2 97% 90% £14,700 £22,100
UEA 564 68 84% 7 21.0 91% 96% £9,000* £14,350*
Ulster 726 421 53% 3 36.4 77% 84% £4,380-£9,635* £9,935-£12,295*
Warwick 999 2392 56% 10 17.4 94% 90% £7,500-£33,000 £7,500-£33,000
UWE Bristol 274 558 26% 3 24.3 87% 74% £8,250 £11,250
West London 234 202 43% 4 26.0 78% 78% £6,950-£10,450 £10,450
West of Scotland 155 159 35% 3 26.4 77% £2,000-£3,955 £10,300
Westminster 886 599 56% 4 24.1 89% 85% £8,500-£15,000 (MBA £23,000) £11,500-£16,000 (MBA £23,000)
Winchester 40 37 53% 2 25.7 87% 87% £4,700-£11,300 £4,700-£13,400
Worcester 70 163 31% 3 31.2 81% 92% £8,280 £11,180
York 435 1 93% 5 20.6 95% £5,900* £13,580*
York St John 60 17 75% 4 22.4 67% 79% £5,700-£10,800 £10,000-£12,500
Note: Other providers that deliver courses in this subject area, but for whom there is insufficient data to present, include Falmouth, Harper Adams, Institute of Education and University of London
Key: * Tuition fee is estimated on the basis of those fees that were applicable to students commencing courses in 2013-14. (1) Exceptions apply. (2) 2-year course. (3) Scottish discount. (4) Overseas fee for 2013-14.
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