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Education postgraduate and master's courses in 2014

Education
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 211 800 4% 10 18.6 90% 90% £3,400-£4,900* £12,600*
Aberystwyth 146 88 5% 6 16.8 83% 88% £4,250 £11,250
Anglia Ruskin 197 385 3% 7 18.1 94% 54% £5,665 £10,000
University of the Arts London 0 150 8% 95% £4,550-£9,100 £13,800-£27,600
Bangor 320 178 6% 4 26.4 87% £4,500* £10,800*
Bath 154 728 50% 6 16.5 93% 74% £4,400-£6,000 £13,700-£15,000
Bath Spa 439 1952 1% 4 21.6 £6,210 £10,905
Bedfordshire 270 1306 6% 5 20.2 74% 52% £4,500 £9,900
Birkbeck 8 73 15% 3 87% £7,250 £13,950
Birmingham 469 1343 12% 8 23.8 95% 86% £5,940 £13,665
Birmingham City 225 451 3% 5 22.7 100% 53% £5,000* £10,300+*
Bishop Grosseteste 102 231 8% 2 34.8 79% 99% £4,896
Bolton 214 299 4% 9 22.3 89% 79% £5,400 £11,250
Bradford 6 50 30% 8 25.9 76% £4,950* £8,500*
Brighton 440 340 9% 4 18.9 78% 89% £5,580 £11,500
Bristol 294 311 17% 9 11.1 93% 85% £5,000-£7,000 £14,000-£15,000
Brunel 329 108 18% 6 15.5 98% 89% £14,250 £16,000
Buckingham 302 0 11% 6 9.4 98% £3,500-£5,500 £3,500-£5,500
Bucks New University 0 66 0% 9 27.4 78% £2,320* £9,400*
Cambridge 427 385 1% 10 12.8 98% 92%
Canterbury Christ Church 675 1507 4% 4 15.6 60% 65%
Cardiff 82 131 6% 4 16.6 100% £5,730* £13,500*
Cardiff Met 446 108 5% 4 22.3 94% 88% £3,960* £3,960*
Royal Central School of Speech & Drama 35 15 14% 2 90% £7,278 £10,202
Central Lancashire 55 493 2% 20.4 98% 92% £5,000 £11,450
Chester 180 497 1% 7 10.8 97% £4,000-£7,000 £10,800
Chichester 228 435 1% 4 12.5 71% 73% £8,500 £11,350
Coventry 0 59 7% 2 9.3 91% £4,125-£8,799 £8,638-£12,634
Cumbria 654 413 7% 4 18.7 98% 80% £4,500-£10,000 £10,500-£15,500
De Montfort 23 119 13% 3 13.4 85% 83% £4,200-£4,740* £11,700*
Derby 144 563 2% 3 16.5 92% £4,500+* £10,455+*
Dundee 63 325 2% 3 14.9 88% 84% £1,600-£9,500 £3,200-£11,500 (1)
Durham 333 411 14% 7 20.3 92% 77% £6,200 £14,000
East London 508 276 11% 3 26.1 94% 71% £3,400-£5,100* £7,080-£10,620*
Edge Hill 628 6522 1% 4 17.1 95% 89% £8,000
Edinburgh 701 430 39% 8 17.8 89% 87% £7,800 £15,850
Exeter 627 231 12% 7 15.1 94% 90% £6,500 £14,500
Glasgow 363 886 13% 6 19.4 95% 93% £1,820-£5,350 £13,750-£14,950
Glyndŵr 0 147 5% 3 21.4 78% £3,915 £8,100
Gloucestershire 218 459 1% 6 32.1 62% 71% £9,900 £12,500
Goldsmiths 425 90 9% 3 21.9 96% 90% £4,980-£6,600 £12,100-£17,300
Greenwich 102 275 10% 5 22.8 75% 88% £7,000* £10,950*
Hertfordshire 211 640 4% 7 15.1 85% 81% £5,450 £10,800
Highlands & Islands 0 43 0% 10 £5,580 £6,840 (3)
Huddersfield 321 1199 3% 7 15.4 £4,350* £12,000*
Hull 313 750 32% 4 23.5 91% 70% £5,000 £12,000-£14,400
Institute of Education 1703 2822 15% 14.2 90% 87% £11,886-£12,540 £14,418
Keele 3 164 8% 3 23.7 76% £2,100* £10,970*
Kent 0 198 17% 2 95% £4,950* £12,030 (1)
King's College London 328 726 9% 5 21.2 90% 72% £4,300* £15,400*
Kingston 234 452 7% 8 13.4 92% 85% £4,700 £12,700
Lancaster 1 235 14% 8 8.3 70% £5,950 £13,520
Leeds 432 457 16% 7 19.8 96% 86% £5,100* £13,100*
Leeds Met 166 408 20% 3 21.1 95% 89% £4,500-£13,500* £10,000-£13,500*
Leeds Trinity 140 217 1% 2 25.8 83% 54% £4,200* £11,000*
Leicester 387 188 10% 9 11.4 84% 86%
Lincoln 0 44 5% 3 5.6 100%
Liverpool John Moores 348 528 3% 5 20.2 91% £3,732-£9,000 £12,040
London Met 276 278 11% 2 19.1 50% 89% £7,650-£8,550 £10,800-£11,700
London South Bank 35 372 13% 5 14.3 96% 56% £9,100 £9,100
Manchester 466 389 7% 9 13.4 94% 72% £6,300* £13,000*
Manchester Met 803 1694 2% 4 16.4 93% 92% £4,200 £10,250
Middlesex 335 1128 9% 9 25.5 98% 66% £9,000* £11,000*
Newcastle 243 185 7% 8 13.6 96% 69% £5,500 £12,075 (1)
Newman University 289 122 2% 3 18.2 72% 77% £4,800 £10,000
Northampton 134 528 6% 7 19.5 88% 96% £3,900+* £10,250*
Northumbria 168 504 2% 6 13.9 55% 67% £5,450 £11,300
Nottingham 580 891 16% 9 14.3 92% 82% £5,380-£9,000 £13,730-£17,500
Nottingham Trent 165 473 9% 4 21.8 87% 80% £4,750-£8,750* £11,100-£12,950*
The Open University 0 2399 0% 2 33.4 97% £3,500-£6,000
Oxford 247 157 20% 10.2 94% 81% £4,763-£10,735 £7,445-£18,110
Oxford Brookes 286 425 6% 6 17.9 90% 91% £5,030 £12,100
Plymouth 348 854 2% 8 16.0 78% £5,495 £12,250
Portsmouth 90 198 16% 7 23.4 94% 69% £4,500* £10,500*
Queen's, Belfast 230 420 10% 8 10.4 96% 82% £4,400* *
Reading 273 471 8% 9 11.2 95% 86% £5,500-£9,000 £13,750
Robert Gordon 0 132 11% 2 5.9 83%
Roehampton 491 496 11% 3 22.7 78% 86% £4,950 £14,400
Sheffield 144 312 11% 9 14.3 96% 88% £5,140 £13,390
Sheffield Hallam 587 1433 3% 4 15.0 90% 59% £6,000-£9,000 £11,250-£13,650 (1)
Glamorgan (USW) 0 33 6% 4 17.0 87% £4,000* £11,700*
Southampton 410 481 10% 5 18.2 86% 87% £3,900-£9,000* £13,500*
Southampton Solent 8 26 3% 3 28.5 63%
St Mary's UC, Belfast 20 127 5% 2 14.7 100% 94%
St Mary's UC, Twickenham 262 503 8% 3 26.4 98% 88% £4,200-£4,400 £10,500
Staffordshire 29 409 3% 12.9 74% 83% £3,800 £11,000
Stirling 144 329 17% 7 13.5 88% 55% £4,000-£7,000 £7,000-£11,500
Stranmillis UC 46 97 10% 2 21.5 76% 55% £3,918* *
Strathclyde 534 1351 3% 6 22.8 90% 69% £3,700-£9,365 £10,500-£11,050
Sunderland 286 274 12% 7 18.2 88% 58% £4,050 £9,900
Sussex 166 73 7% 7 7.7 92% 92% £5,500-£9,000 £13,000
Teesside 27 108 3% 7 27.0 83% £4,500 £10,950
Trinity Saint David 6 34 10% 3 25.0
UEA 405 402 10% 9 11.4 97% 56% £5,000* £12,500*
Ulster 172 506 25% 4 18.9 97% 90% £3,575-£4,290* £9,805-£10,430*
Warwick 578 479 17% 10 14.8 93% 72% £7,050 £15,880-£16,000
UWE Bristol 278 710 2% 3 27.3 96% 67% £9,000 £10,750
West of Scotland 81 138 0% 3 21.7 100% 98% £1,820 £10,300
Westminster 26 226 13% 100% 79%
Winchester 93 448 0% 3 18.0 82% 80% £4,700 £10,800
Worcester 366 653 5% 8 20.0 93% 67% £4,770 £11,180
York 493 201 54% 7 14.3 90% 92% £5,900* £13,580*
York St John 164 216 7% 5 29.5 93% 88% £3,500-£5,700 £10,000
Note: Other providers that deliver courses in this subject area, but for whom there is insufficient data to present, include Falmouth, Bournemouth, City, Essex, Liverpool, UCL, Loughborough, Surrey and University College Birmingham
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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