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UWE Bristol is a thriving, modern university, offering a wide range of highly respected courses and employment-enhancing opportunities – in one of the UK’s most vibrant cities.
We’re a well-established university, with over 27,000 students, 250,000 alumni and 3,000 staff. Students come to study with us from all over the UK, as well as from 140 different countries around the world, making this a diverse and interesting place to come and study.
With more than 600 courses on offer, at undergraduate, postgraduate, professional and short course level, we offer a broad range of subjects across the arts, creative industries, health, science, business, law, environment and technology disciplines. We are well known for the quality of our teaching, and for our student experience as a whole.
Alongside our teaching, our academics are working on nationally and internationally-renowned research in many interesting areas – from robotics to appearance issues. As well as enriching our teaching, we ensure our research contributes to society and the economy through knowledge exchange, science communication, partnerships and supporting business innovation and growth.
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Faculty of Arts, Creative Industries and Education
The Faculty of Arts, Creative Industries and Education (ACE) brings together three highly successful and vibrant disciplines that are well-established within the University of the West of England.
It is subdivided into the following departments:
- Department of Arts and Cultural Industries
- School of Art and Design
- Department of Education
- School of Film and Journalism
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Faculty of Business and Law
The Faculty of Business and Law comprises Bristol Business School and Bristol Law School who provide a range of undergraduate, postgraduate, higher research and professional courses covering a wide variety of business and law subjects.
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Faculty of Health and Applied Sciences
- Department of Allied Health Professions
- Department of Biological, Biomedical and Analytical Sciences
- Department of Health and Social Sciences
- Department of Nursing and Midwifery
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Faculty of Environment and Technology
With over 6,000 students and 450 staff, our interdisciplinary approach to teaching, research andpartnerships creates new opportunities for our students, our staff and the communities we serve.
The Faculty has several departments:
- Department of Architecture and the Built Environment
- Department of Computer Science and Creative Technologies
- Department of Engineering Design and Mathematics
- Department of Geography and Environmental Management
The University of the West of England can trace its roots back to the foundation of the Merchant Venturers Navigation School, which was founded in 1595. Part of this institution, to which the Universities of Bristol and Bath also partly owe their origins, became a technical college which, after merger with other colleges, in turn became Bristol Polytechnic in 1970; the then-main campus was at Ashley Down, now a campus of the City of Bristol College. Like the other former polytechnics, this gained university status and its present name as a result of the Further and Higher Education Act, 1992.
The Bower Ashton site was formed in 1969 as the West of England College of Art which was formerly the art school of the Royal West of England Academy in Queens Road, Bristol. The St Matthias site (which is no longer owned by the university) was originally built in Victorian times and was a teacher training college. These campuses, together with campuses in Redland, Ashley Down, Unity Street and Frenchay became part of Bristol Polytechnic around 1976.
The Avon and Gloucestershire College of Health which is now the Glenside Campus and the Bath and Swindon College of Health Studies joined in January 1996. Hartpury campus joined in 1997. An £80 million student village located at the Frenchay campus, which includes a sports centre and rooms for 2000 students, opened in 2006. The university is a lead academic sponsor of Bristol Technology and Engineering Academy, a new university technical college.
UWE has consistently been ranked among the top ten new universities in the UK and has always scored 'excellent' in the teaching assessments carried out by the Quality Assurance Agency.
Ofsted reports have rated UWE's primary, secondary and further education initial teacher training (ITT) courses as outstanding – the top grade available. The university is also rated the fourth best university in the UK for Law according to the UK Law Society.
According to The Guardian Good University Guide 2013 Land & Property Management has been ranked 4th out of 18 other institutions and Earth and marine sciences has been ranked 4th out of 33 other institutions in the UK.
Measures to prepare our students for their future careers are built in to every course that we offer. We work with our industry partners to develop ready and able graduates who are equipped to make a positive contribution to their chosen profession or further study.
We’ve built close links with leading employers such as CERN, Rolls Royce, the NHS, Aardman Animation and the BBC to help develop the right content for our courses and to give our students exposure to diverse professional opportunities.