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Overview
St Mary’s is one of the smallest universities in this guide with barely 3,500 undergraduates based on a leafy campus in south-west London. It offers a more personalised higher education experience than is possible in the much larger universities in the capital. This translates into consistently high levels of student satisfaction in the National Student Survey. It was established as a Catholic teacher training college in 1850, eventually becoming a fully-fledged university in 2014. Teacher training is still a key part of the university’s provision and the Catholic ethos remains, although St Mary’s admits students of all faiths and none. The course portfolio has expanded considerably since St Mary’s gained university title, and another nine degrees admit their first students this month. The university that taught Sir Mo Farah continues to have a great sporting tradition and excellent facilities for both the study and practice of sport, which includes its highly regarded Endurance and Performance Centre. Sports scholarships help maintain a pipeline of high-class athletes on campus.
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Paying the bills
This small university has some big financial awards available. The St Mary’s Bursary is worth £2,000 per year and is paid to students from homes with an annual income of less than £15,000. The £3,000 per year Vice-Chancellor’s Excellence Scholarships are paid to students with ‘outstanding academic potential’ from homes with an annual household income of less than £25,000. There is also support for care leavers, a hardship fund that makes awards of £100 to £1,500 and a student engagement fund to purchase or reimburse students for small items that add to their enjoyment of university life. Several scholarships cover specific courses – computer science, acting, history and Post Graduate Certificates of Education – as well as sport. The latter scholarships are worth up to £2,000 per year. St Mary’s is unusual in offering only catered halls to undergraduates with prices beginning at £6,250 for a 36-week contract, rising to £8,060. A limited amount of self-catered accommodation is reserved for postgraduates only, priced from £9,200 to £10,935 annually.
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What’s new?
The university is being reorganised into a three-faculty structure from the start of the academic year this month: business and law; education, theology and the arts; and sport, technology and health sciences. An investment of £1.7m by the Office for Students has created cutting-edge computer science facilities, leading to the launch of a new BSc in computer science. It is one of several new courses this month including a suite of law degrees available as either LLB or BA qualifications studied in combination with business, politics or sports business. BA degrees in theological studies and creative production are also added to the roster.
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Admissions, teaching and student support
Face-to-Face Plus is the name given to St Mary’s post-pandemic approach to course delivery. This translates into an emphasis on in-person teaching and the wider campus experience, augmented by online components (such as lecture capture) and additional resources (such as course materials provided through the university’s virtual learning environment). ‘We know our students value the wider campus experience and gain great value from meeting physically with their peers and their lecturers regularly,’ the university told us. Counsellors and mentors help maintain student mental health and wellbeing. All students are assigned an academic tutor (usually a lecturer on their course) on joining the university and learning and development modules are embedded into courses to take some of the stress out of the transition to university-level study. Students are required to attend two compulsory sessions as part of their induction programme that cover sexual conduct and consent, bystander intervention, bullying and harassment, alcohol and drugs, and hate incidents.
