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| 29 September 2006 | PR 06/111 |
Loughborough shortlisted for THES Best Student Experience award
Loughborough University has been shortlisted for the prestigious Times Higher Education Supplement (THES) award for the UK’s Best Student Experience.
Over 7,000 students were polled for the highly contested award. They were asked to rate various aspects of the University, including the courses, facilities, atmosphere and social life.
The winner will be announced at an awards dinner on 15 November, at the Hilton Hotel, Park Lane, London.
Loughborough’s nomination for the award follows on from its excellent performance in this year’s National Student Survey, published in August.
Nine out of Loughborough’s 23 departments were rated top in their subject area, and overall the University was ranked in the top five universities among full-time students.
When data from all the universities that took part in the 2005 survey are combined with the 2006 results, Loughborough comes first as the favourite university in the country among full-time students.
Loughborough was also ranked 6th in this year’s Times Good University Guide, confirming it as one of the country’s leading higher education institutions. The highly-regarded Times guide is based upon nine measures of quality – student satisfaction, research assessment, entry standards, student/staff ratio, library/computing spend, facilities spend, degree classifications, graduate prospects, and completion rates..
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Notes to editors
- Further information on the THES awards can be found at www.thes.co.uk
- Loughborough Students’ Union (LSU) is one of the very best
in the country and is one of the only unions to be owned and managed
by the students. Its Rag is the biggest student fundraising organisation
in the country, and in 2005-06 it raised a record-breaking £626,147.56
for local and national charities.
- Loughborough has an established reputation for excellence in teaching
and research, strong links with industry, and unrivalled sporting achievement.
Assessments of teaching quality by the Quality Assurance Agency place
it in the top flight of UK universities; the National Student Survey
ranked Loughborough equal first among full-time students; and industry
highlights the University in its top five for graduate recruitment.
Around 40% of Loughborough’s income is for research, and 60% for
teaching. The University has been awarded five Queen's Anniversary Prizes:
for its collaboration with aerospace and automotive companies such as
BAE Systems, Ford and Rolls Royce; for its work in developing countries;
for pioneering research in optical engineering; for its world-leading
role in sports research, education and development; and for its outstanding
work in evaluating and helping to develop social policy-related programmes.
In 2006 Loughborough celebrates the 40th anniversary of its University Charter, awarded on 19 April 1966 in recognition of the excellence achieved by Loughborough College of Advanced Technology and its predecessor Colleges. Loughborough University of Technology was renamed Loughborough University in 1996.