Glasgow Caledonian University

Overview

  • • Glasgow Caledonian University was formed in 1993 by the merger of The Queen’s College. Glasgow (founded in 1875) and Glasgow Polytechnic (founded in 1971).

    • In June 2017, the university’s New York partner institution, which was founded in 2013, was granted permission to award degrees in the state, the first higher education institution founded by a foreign university to achieve this status.

    • The university is comprised of three academic schools – Glasgow School for Business and Society, School of Computing, Engineering and Built Environment, and School of Health and Life Sciences. The university has a campus in London as well.

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Things you should know

• GCU is the top modern university in Scotland for research power (REF 2014 rankings).According to the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) UK Performance Indicators in Higher Education.

• GCU has a completion rate of 80.9 per cent, above the sector average of 80.6 per cent for Scotland.

• 97% of GCU graduates are in work or further student six months after graduation, according to HESA.

• The Times Higher Education 2018 UK Student Experience survey named GCU as the second most improved university in the UK for student experience, up from 99th to joint 67th.

• It is also a member of the Association of Commonwealth Universities, the European University Association, Universities UK, Universities Scotland, the Florence Network, the Talloires Network, the Erasmus+ Programme, and the Santander Universities Network.

Alumini

Of Glasgow Caledonian University

• Sikandar Raza, cricketer, Zimbabwe Cricket

• Hassan Rouhani, President of Iran

• Anna Sloan, curling bronze medallist at the 2014 Winter Olympics

• Gregor Virant, Minister of the Interior and Public Administration of Slovenia

• Sean Michael Wilson, comic book writer

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