About University of St Andrews
Overview
- • It is a public university in St Andrews, Fife, Scotland.
- • It is the oldest of the four ancient universities of Scotland and, following Oxford and Cambridge universities, the third-oldest university in the United Kingdom and English-speaking world.
- • St Andrews was founded in 1413.
- • The student body is notably diverse: over 145 nationalities are represented with 45% of its intake from countries outside the UK. There are 18 academic schools organized into four faculties.
- • It is 10 miles (16 km) southeast of Dundee and 30 miles (50 km) northeast of Edinburgh.
- • St Andrews is also known worldwide as the "home of golf".
- • This is in part because of The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews, founded in 1754.
- • Six Nobel Laureates are among St Andrews' alumni and former staff: two in Chemistry and Physiology or Medicine, and one each in Peace and Literature.
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Reputation
Things you should know
- • In 2017, St Andrews was named as the university with the joint second highest graduate employment rate of any UK university (along with Warwick) with 97.7 per cent of its graduates in work or further study three and a half years after graduation.
- • St Andrews is placed 7th in the UK (1st in Scotland) for the employability of its graduates as chosen by recruiters from the UK's major companies.
- • It has been twice named "University of the Year" by The Times and Sunday Times' Good University Guide one of only two UK universities to achieve this.
- • In 2019, St Andrews had the third-highest entry standard of undergraduate admission in the UK after Oxford and Cambridge and attained an average UCAS Entry Tariff of 207 points.
- • The Guardian ranks the Schools of Classics, Economics and Finance, Geography and Sustainable Development, History of Art, International Relations and, Physics and Astronomy first.
- • In a ranking conducted by The Guardian, St Andrews is placed 5th in the UK for national reputation behind Oxford, Cambridge, Imperial & LSE.
- • THE Times Higher Education World Universities Ranking names St Andrews among the world's Top 50 universities for Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities.
- • St Andrews has consistently held the highest student satisfaction scores amongst all multi-faculty universities in the United Kingdom.
- • The 2014 Research Excellence Framework ranked St Andrews 14th in the UK and first in Scotland, amongst multi-faculty institutions for the research quality (GPA) of its output profile.
- • According to the Complete University Guide 2020, students at the University of St Andrews are the most satisfied in the UK. Based on the quality of teaching, St Andrews scored 4.26 out of a maximum score of 5.00.
- • The University has one of the best first-year retention rates in Scotland for 2016-2017 entrants: around 97% of our students continue in their studies at St Andrews; less than 1% transfer to other universities, and less than 2% drop out of higher education altogether.
- • An independent report conducted by Swedish investment firm, Skandia found that despite its small undergraduate body, St Andrews is the joint-5th best university in the UK for producing millionaires.
- • A study by High Fliers confirmed this by reporting that the university also features in the top 5 of UK universities for producing self-made millionaires.
- • According to a study by the Institute of Employment Research, St Andrews has produced more directors of FTSE 100 companies in proportion to its size than any other educational institution in Britain.
- • In the 2019 Complete University Guide, 24 out of the 25 subjects offered by St Andrews rank within the top 10 nationally, making St Andrews one of only three multi-faculty universities (along with Cambridge and Oxford) in the UK to have over 95% of their subjects in the top 10.
Alumni
Of Middlesex University
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• Prince William, Duke of Cambridge.
• Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge.
• Alex Salmond - First Minister of Scotland.
• Thomas Chalmers – Scottish Minister.
• James Wilson - a signer of the Declaration of Independence., Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) Alex Younge.
• John Napier – Scottish Landowner known as mathematician.
• Hugh Cleghorn- "the father of scientific forestry in India".
• James Black- Nobel Prize winner for Medicine.
• John Pringle-Father of Military medicine.
Courses In Middlesex University
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Gender Studies
Global Social and Political Thought
International Development Practice
Sustainable
Development
International Political Theory
International Security Studies
MECCA Security Studies
Strategic Studies
Terrorism and Political Violence
Banking and Finance
Finance and Management
Human Resource Management
International Business
Management
Marketing
Applied Statistics and Datamining
Mathematics
Statistical Ecology
Statistics
Health Psychology
Comparative Literature
German and Comparative Literature
Photonics and Optoelectronic Devices
Evolutionary and Comparative
Neuroscience
Psychology (Conversion)
Research Methods
Anthropology, Art and Perception
Social Anthropology with Latin and Caribbean
Social Anthropology
Social Anthropology with Pacific Studies
TESOL
TESOL-Teaching Young Learners
TESOL-Technology for Teaching
TESOL-with a Specialism in English Medium Instuction
TESOL-with a Specialism in English for Academic Purposes
TESOL-with a Specialism in Assessment and Evaluation
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