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Overview
Glasgow is in the throes of a £1bn campus investment programme which will provide some of the best university resources and facilities in the UK. A member of the Russell Group of research-intensive universities, Glasgow’s formidable reputation and a history going back to 1451 gives it a strong international appeal, with more than one in five undergraduate recruits last year coming from overseas. Domestically, the university caters for a much larger Scottish population of students than its two principal academic rivals, Edinburgh and St Andrews. Scottish students accounted for 82% of the UK intake last year, although Glasgow also makes a strong pitch for students from the rest of the UK. Unlike its rivals, Glasgow offers degrees to non-Scottish students at the same price (£27,750) as degrees in England, waiving the final year of tuition fees on its four-year courses to these students. The university is based on two principal sites in Glasgow. The main Gilmorehill campus lies in the heart of Glasgow’s fashionable West End with outdoor sports facilities, veterinary medicine students and the catered Wolfson Hall student accommodation based on the Garscube campus some four miles away. Three undergraduate programmes – environmental science and sustainability, health and social sector leadership, and primary education with teaching qualification – are based on the Dumfries campus, 85 miles distant. Applications are booming, hitting just under 42,000 for admission last September, a 20% rise from before the pandemic.
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Paying the bills
More than 80% of British students at Glasgow pay no tuition fees as they live in Scotland and their fees are covered by the government. For students recruited from the rest of the UK, the RUK Access Bursary provides substantial financial support. For students from homes with an annual household income of less than £25,000, it is worth £3,000 in the first year and £2,000 in the two subsequent years of study. This drops to £2,000 and £1,000 respectively when income is between £25,001 and £35,000. No bursary is paid in the fourth year as the £9,250 tuition fee is waived for RUK students in their final year to keep tuition fees at the same level as they would be elsewhere in the UK. This differentiates Glasgow from Scotland’s two other high-tariff universities – Edinburgh and St Andrews – which both charge RUK students for the extra year of tuition. RUK excellence scholarships pay students £1,000 per year for achieving AAA at A-level or equivalent (except for medicine, dentistry, and veterinary medicine applicants). About 50 Talent Scholarships are offered to Scottish students who can show academic excellence (typically AABB to BBBB at Higher) and financial need. They are worth £1,500 per year, as are the two William Wilson Scott Scholarships paid to female students from Scotland or the rest of the UK studying computer science or engineering who can show academic excellence and financial need. A stock of about 4,000 residential rooms owned by the university or held for Glasgow students by private operators begin at £4,461 for a self-catered shared room in Cairncross House, 15 minutes from the main university campus, rising to £8,307 for a premium studio in Blackfriars in Merchant City. Catered accommodation costs from £7,527 to £8,321 in Wolfson Hall, close to the Garscube sports complex.
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What’s new?
Glasgow is well into a £1 bn upgrade of its facilities which has seen several flagship projects completed in the past two years. By the time next year’s intake arrive, the Clarice Pears Building should have opened at a cost of £50m on the main Gilmorehill campus. It will bring staff from the school of health and wellbeing together in one multidisciplinary centre who are currently spread across ten sites. Also under construction is the new Adam Smith Business School and postgraduate taught hub. The James McCune Smith Learning Hub opened in April 2021. With a capacity of more than 2,500 students, it combined flexible study and social spaces with multi-styled and technology-enabled teaching spaces. The largest of all the projects, completed in April last year, is the Mazumdar-Shaw Advanced Research Centre. The university’s flagship research facility houses about 600 academics and researchers working across five themes – creative economies and cultural transformation; digital chemistry; global sustainable development; quantum and nanotechnology; and technologies touching life.
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Admissions, teaching and student support
The university runs outreach initiatives across Scotland with a particular focus on Glasgow and west of the country. Pre-entry programmes include a widening participation summer school for prospective applicants from backgrounds under-represented on campus, a university taster week and a Sutton Trust summer school. Successful completion of one of these programmes can lead to an adjusted offer. Once enrolled at the university, students with widening participation characteristics are well supported. A recent study of 30,000 students over the past 16 years who took part in Glasgow’s Top-Up programme showed that students recruited from some of the most deprived areas in Scotland were just as likely to graduate with a first class degree as those drawn from affluent areas. Glasgow’s counselling and psychological services team supports students with mild to moderate needs, helping them to manage their mental health and build strategies to help them complete their studies. As part of that, it runs a series of masterclasses over Zoom for students offering advice on improving sleep, managing anxiety, overcoming perfectionism and low mood, while a team of peer wellbeing supporters helps students with mild mental health issues. These services are additional to providing blocks of therapy where needed, wellbeing consultations and psychoeducation and group work.