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Sociology postgraduate and master's courses in 2014

Sociology
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
Bangor 14 17 13% 4 22.5 100% £4,500* £10,800*
Birkbeck 7 32 11% 3 30.6 74% £6,250-£9,950 £13,950-£14,775
Bristol 26 12 50% 7 16.1 83% £5,000-£6,000 £14,000-£15,000
Brunel 59 8 65% 6 19.9 85% £13,000 £16,000
Cambridge 0 48 0% 16.5 93%
Cardiff 40 4 14% 5 16.6 95% £5,730* £13,500*
Chester 21 5 4% 2 25.9 £4,000-£7,000 £10,800
City 163 53 65% 9 18.6 84% 87% £9,000 £12,000
Durham 37 2 34% 8 19.8 85% £5,700 £14,000
Edinburgh 49 6 75% 10 18.9 95% £10,600 £15,850
Essex 38 6 56% 5 16.3 92% £5,000-£7,000* £12,950*
Glasgow 25 17 25% 8 20.4 100% £5,000-£5,350 £13,000-£13,750
Glasgow Caledonian 1 31 25% 4 20.9 £6,835* *
Goldsmiths 151 60 50% 3 18.4 96% 95% £4,980-£8,000 £12,100-£16,200
Highlands & Islands 0 31 16% 10 £7,740 £6,375 (3)
Hull 50 11 54% 4 17.2 80% £5,000 £12,000-£14,400
Kent 36 13 47% 6 14.1 85% £4,950* £12,030 (1)
Lancaster 39 8 55% 7 16.3 96% £5,950 £13,520
Leeds 44 47 17% 4 25.2 92% 83% £5,100* £13,100*
Leicester 9 97 6% 8 18.9 67% £12,920
London Met 23 56 24% 1 27.3 95% £7,650 £10,800
London School of Economics 253 38 74% 9 10.7 98% 100% £11,568-£23,064 £17,880-£23,064
London South Bank 41 65 17% 3 33.0 87% 84% £5,670* £5,670*
Manchester 52 19 26% 7 18.9 96% £6,300* £13,000*
Manchester Met 20 14 9% 2 23.1 £4,200 £10,250
Middlesex 39 33 22% 6 28.7 94% 79% £7,500 £11,000
Nottingham 49 13 41% 7 18.7 97% £6,010 £13,730
Nottingham Trent 18 8 23% 4 25.3 75% £5,350 £12,000
The Open University 0 38 0% 1 35.8 £3,500-£6,000
Oxford 82 0 71% 11.3 98% £8,935-£14,015 £18,110-£20,455
Plymouth 7 29 39% 8 22.3 £5,495 £12,250
Portsmouth 41 191 9% 6 22.6 88% £4,500* £10,500*
Queen's, Belfast 8 24 44% 6 19.4 £4,400* *
Roehampton 42 4 87% 6 28.3 £4,950 £11,700-£14,400
Sheffield 11 113 7% 4 23.1 92% £5,140 £13,390
Sheffield Hallam 19 135 7% 4 25.6 79% £6,000 £11,250-£13,650 (1)
Southampton 59 35 38% 6 19.9 94% £3,900-£5,400* £13,500*
Staffordshire 0 35 0% 3 23.6
Stirling 37 7 40% 4 20.2 98% £4,000 £11,400
Surrey 13 29 12% 8 17.5 93% £5,410 £13,490
Sussex 43 6 69% 3 21.6 100% £5,500* £13,000*
Teesside 25 9 32% 3 25.9 79% £4,500 £10,950
UEA 28 1 82% 7 16.9 100% £5,000* £12,500*
Warwick 34 11 42% 9 17.7 100% £7,050 £15,880
West London 12 32 7% 4 26.8 85% 92%
York 41 11 35% 8 17.3 95% £5,900* £13,580*
Note: Other providers that deliver courses in this subject area, but for whom there is insufficient data to present, include Winchester and SOAS
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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