University of Kent Profile
History
•Royal Charter granted in the year 1965; First students enroll at Canterbury campus.
•Opening of Tonbridge Centre in the year 1982.
•Brussels campus launched in the year 1999.
Location and transport
•Campuses in Canterbury and Medway and specialist centers in Paris, Brussels, and Tonbridge.
•The Canterbury campus is lively, friendly and cosmopolitan, about 20 minutes walk from the Canterbury city centre.
Entry standards
•Kent accepts a wide variety of qualifications and tries to judge applications on basis of the academic potential.
•The university considers your alternative qualifications, experience, and other information provided on application form.
Student mix
•The ratio of male and female: 47:53.
•The ratio of home (UK) to international student is 79:21.
•The ratio of home to overseas is 88:12.
Teaching standards
•National Teaching Fellowships awarded to Kent staff three years' running.
•Kent scored 82 per cent for teaching quality in the year 2006 National Student Survey, ranking 22nd form 128.
Academic strengths
•University of Kent provides a wide range of excellent courses, spanning the sciences, arts, social sciences, and humanities
•History, English, Drama, Engineering and Digital Arts, Statistics, Mathematics, and Actuarial Sciences, Forensics, Business, Biosciences, Economics, Social Policy, Law, Psychology, to name a few.
Student facilities, including library and computing
•Academic faculties include around 1.3 million books and periodicals, more than 2,000 computer terminals, superb laboratories and studios and a learning advisory service.
•Social facilities include bars, nightclub, cafes, theatre and cinema.
Sport
•Canterbury has facilities for more than 30 different sports ranging from a dance studio to football pitches and the climbing wall.
•Medway has growing several sports teams for serious athletes and beginners and launched an annual inter university boat race.