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Science and Engineering. www.glasgow.ac.uk/colleges/sciencengineering. The University. Established 1451 Ranked in the top 1% of world Universities Member of the Russell Group and Universitas 21 88% of research is world-recognised New research grants and contracts worth over £100M pa
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Science and Engineering www.glasgow.ac.uk/colleges/sciencengineering
The University • Established 1451 • Ranked in the top 1% of world Universities • Member of the Russell Group and Universitas 21 • 88% of research is world-recognised • New research grants and contracts worth over £100M pa • Rated top in Scotland and third in the UK for international student satisfaction • 3400 researchers across 4 colleges • 6000 academic and support staff • 22,000 students • 16,000 UG and 6000 PG
Restructuring from 9 faculties to 4 colleges • Facilitate collaboration, multi-disciplinarity and joint working • Enhance efficiency and effectiveness of academic units • Facilitate improved research performance • Improve communication to stimulate creativity • Enhance the postgraduate student environment • Support strategies to improve student success • Build on the high quality student experience
About us School of Chemistry School of Computing Science School of Engineering School of Geographical & Earth Sciences School of Mathematics & Statistics School of Physics & Astronomy • School of Psychology Research Institute in Neuroscience and Psychology • www.glasgow.ac.uk/colleges/sciencengineering
About us • Research funding circa £35 million per annum provides unique facilities that also support our postgraduate researchers • ~270 academic staff, ~70 research fellows, ~120 research associates, and ~80 research assistants • In excess of 600 PhD students • More than 300 postgraduate taught Masters students • Four of the UK’s top ten Research Units in the RAE 2008 – Computing Science, Electrical Engineering, Physics, and Psychology