Birmingham City University Profile
History
•Historical strengths in the creative and performing arts: first college of design outside London (in the year 1843) and Birmingham Conservatoire (in the year 1886).
•Amassed strengths in creative, health and technological disciplines, professional, social sciences, teacher training, and humanities, leading to university status in the year 1992.
Location and transport
•Locations in Birmingham range from the City South Campus in leafy Edgbaston to the ancient and modern city-centre buildings and the City North Campus in Perry Barr.
•Air links are also excellent through Birmingham International Airport.
Entry standards
•280 tariff points across all subjects.
•Highly competitive entry to Art, Music and Acting, Design, depending upon the standard of portfolio or performance in the audition.
•Foundation courses can provide the entry routes and degree progression for the students having lower entry qualifications.
Student mix
•The percentage of Male 39%, female 61%.
•The percentage of UK student 84%, non-UK students 16%.
Academic strengths
•High proportion of courses leads to the professional and degree qualifications with the strong emphasis on employment related and practice based education.
•Good reputation for Art, Design, Teacher Training, Media, Health Care, Music and Performing Arts and for the relevant practice-based professional education.
Student facilities, including library and computing
•Seven libraries, almost one million books and nearly 9,000 print and electronic journals.
•Virtual learning environment such as the Virtual Case Creator used in the Faculty of Health which gives complex, unstructured problems which realistically represent aspects of health practice.
Sport
•The Students’ Union runs more than 30 sports clubs. Some play against universities through the intra mural leagues while others are run on the non competitive basis.