London South Bank University Profile


History
•Founded in 1892 as the Borough Polytechnic and amalgamated with four other colleges in 1970 to become South Bank Polytechnic.
•Historically the institution focused on providing people with relevant employment skills and supplying employers with the skilled workforce they needed. This included pioneering courses such as heating and ventilating engineering in the 1920s, petrol motor mechanics in the 1900s,  and nuclear power in 1950s, together with the UK's first engineering course for women in 1920s and one of theUK's first nursing degrees in the year 1974.

Location and transport
•Elephant and Castle tube station are within the walking distance of, Waterloo and London Bridge. LSBU is just minutes away from South Bank, West End and City.
•26 bus routes links university to the rest of London.
•The LSBU has a campus in Havering as well.

Entry standards
•The university seeks to gernerate professional opportunity for all who can benefit.
•The opportunities for undergraduates and postgraduates with the formal qualifications, several universities’ students have taken non-traditional routes into the Higher Education.

Teaching standards
•Student feedback constantly shows high levels of the student satisfaction with teaching.
•The reports by Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (QAA) have often commended the quality of teaching.

Research standards
•A growing and dynamic research culture, with a broad range of academic interests and qualified staff.
•Traditionally the university's research excellance is in engineering, applied science, social science, business and computing.

Academic strengths
•LSBU provides one of the most professionally and vocationally focused course portfolios in country.
•Areas of academic strength include Computing, Business, Health & Social Care, Design and Arts & Society, Engineering, Science and Technology.

Student facilities, including library and computing
•There is one library on each campus. There are more than 600 study spaces at the university for individual and group learning both.
•IT services for students are offered on all the campuses, with more than 400 workstations.

Sport
•Sports facilities include more than 40 station fitness suite, a dedicated exercise classes, free weights room, and a sports injury clinic.
•The university offers a large and comprehensive Sports Scholarship Scheme.