About us

Student profile 2010-11*

Total number of students: 8,836
Undergraduate: 6,136
Postgraduate: 618
Work-based foundation degree: 765
Part-time professional and short courses: 1,317
Female: Male (per cent): 57:43

We welcome significant numbers of mature students, with two-thirds of the student population being over the age of 21.

*Figures at December 2010

Did you know?

According to research reported in Times Higher Education in 2011, Bucks New University features in the top 30 universities throughout the United Kingdom in order of value-added ranking, based on graduate salary. This shows our strength in graduates' employability and the quality of our career focused and innovative courses.

Bucks New University has seen a huge increase in our applications for full-time undergraduate honours degree courses over the last three years making us one of the top ten most popular English universities based on percentage increase in applications. UCAS Digest 2011

The University was named 'Enterprising Educator of the Year 2010' by the Bucks Economic & Learning Partnership.

In 2010, Bucks was ranked number one for education provision in Child Nursing, second for Adult Nursing and third for Mental Health Nursing, putting us in the top three for all categories in which we have provision, in the NHS London Contract Performance Management Results.

Bucks Students’ Union won a Best Bar None Gold Award for one of the best Students' Union venues in the UK (2009).

Bucks was nominated for Times Higher Education Awards for its student support package, the Big D£al in the 'Outstanding Support for Students' category (2009).

Bucks became a Fairtrade university in 2009.

The University was a founding member of 4C, an organisation that brings together socially responsible businesses with voluntary sector requirements.

Bucks was ranked number one in The Halifax-Times Higher Education quality of life index, designed to measure the quality of life of academic staff at 121 higher education institutions in the UK.