Rankings

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Rankings
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The TIMES University Guide 2008

• Aston is ranked 15th overall out of 113 UK
  Universities
• Our position ranks Aston above Universities such
  as Nottingham, Lancaster, Leeds, Birmingham,
  Exeter, Liverpool, Cardiff, St Andrews,
  Manchester, Newcastle, Leicester and Southampton
• The Times ranked Aston as 9th best in the UK for
  the employability of its graduates with 76
  entering graduate level employment
• Aston ranked high on specific criteria including
• - low drop-out rates
• - strong staff-student ratios
• - high proportion of First and Upper Second
  class degrees
• - high level of spending on student facilities
  (support, accommodation, sport and student
  activities, teaching facilities library and
  computers)

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The GUARDIAN University Guide 2008

• Aston is ranked in the top 30 out of 122
  Universities and Colleges.
• Aston has featured in the top 30 of the Guardian
  Guide for three consecutive years.
• The Guardian league tables focus on variables
  such as teaching quality, spending on student
  facilities, entry grades, staff-student ratios
  and
• graduate success/job prospects.

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The GUARDIAN/TIMES/GOOD UNIVERSITY GUIDE 2008
Subject Rankings

• A wide range of Aston Universitys subjects
  feature in the top 15 of the
• Times/Guardian/Good University Guide Subject
  rankings confirming our overall
• strength.
• Anatomy Physiology 6th The Guardian
• Business Management subjects 6th The Times
  7th - Good University Guide
• Biosciences 6th - The Guardian
• Electronic Engineering 15th The Guardian
• Mechanical Engineering 14th The Good
  University Guide
• Pharmacy Pharmacology 10th - Good University
  Guide
• Subjects allied to Medicine (Optometry and
  Audiology) 5th Good University Guide

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The GOOD UNIVERSITY GUIDE 2008

• Aston is ranked 12th overall out of 113 UK
  Universities
• Aston surpassed its 86.8 benchmark for intake of
  state school pupils - only three other top
  20-ranked institutions had state school
  participation rates of over 80.
• Only 5.6 of Aston's students chose not to
  continue their degree course after their first
  year, against a target of 6.1, indicating that
  Aston is successfully retaining, as well as
  recruiting, students.
• The Good University Guide is Compiled by Mayfield
  University Consultants,
• published in the Telegraph and sponsored by
  PricewaterhouseCoopers.

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The SUNDAY TIMES 2008

• Ranked 32 out of 123 universities
• Ranked 6th top university in the West Midlands

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Other rankings 2007

• FINANCIAL TIMES LEAGUE TABLES
• - Aston Business School is ranked 2nd in the UK
  and 12th in Europe
• - Ranked 13th in the UK for the MSc in
  International Business
• - MSc Marketing Management 1st in the UK and 1st
  in Europe for the student experience.
• Statistics for September 2007. Data for 2008 was
  not available at the time of
• going to press

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Masters programmes

• Aston Business School
• - has 71 full time MBA students from all over
  the world together with 160 part time evening
  and distance learning MBAs.
• The School of Languages and Social Sciences
• - has been successfully running suites of
  programmes for practising teachers in teaching
  English for nearly 20 years.
• The School of Engineering Applied Science
• - offer programmes related to the work being
  carried out by the Schools research groups
  meaning students experience the benefits of the
  latest research at first hand.
• The School of Life Health Sciences
• - has a range of courses in Psychology,
  Audiology, Pharmacy, Biomedical Sciences and
  Pharmaceutical Sciences including courses in Drug
  Design and Drug Delivery.

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Graduate employment success

• Astons graduate employment record is
  consistently amongst the
• best in the UK
• Astons graduate employment record is
  consistently amongst the best in the UK.
• Graduates entering employment80.4 (HESA DLHE
  survey of 2006 graduates).
• Graduates into Graduate Level employment or
  further study 9th highest out of 109
  Universities at 76 (Times University Guide 2007)
• Most optimistic final year students 3rd out of
  30 leading Universities in the annual High Fliers
  UK Graduate Survey 2007 for the proportion of
  students expecting to secure a graduate level
  job. Aston was third only to the London School of
  Economics and Imperial College.
• Around 70 of our students take Sandwich or Year
  Abroad Programmes giving them valuable (and
  usually paid) experience integrated into their
  degrees.

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Birmingham - Quality of Life

• Birmingham is consistently ranked in the UKs top
  5 cities for
• Overall Quality of Life which includes issues
  such as personal safety, transport, air quality,
  lifestyle and cultural/social facilities.
• The fact that Aston is a green campus
  University situated literally in the heart of
  Birmingham, the UK's second city was one of the
  biggest attractions for me. Living on campus, you
  are never more than five minutes away from a
  lecture and have all the benefits of city life
  being within 10 minutes walk of some of Britains
  best shops and nightlife.
• James Wilkinson, 1st Year, Translation Studies,
  from Hertfordshire