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The University of Westminster Reviews

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Source: All About Law

Founded in 1838 as Britains first Polytechnic Institution, the University of Westminster has come a long way. The University has campuses spread all across Central and North-West London, boasting diversity in location and people. Westminster University likes to be recognised as a leading developer of technologies and such of its kind.

It manages to prove this in a variety of ways, starting with opening the first ever Photographic Studio in Europe. It continues to apply this innovation and enthusiasm to its ongoing research enabling the University of Westminster to pose as the leading post-1992 university for research in a variety of subjects including Law.

Although the University of Westminster is not the highest ranking university in the country, squeezing in at the tail end of the top 100, this doesnt reflect the true reputation of the Law School. In comparison to its overall ranking as per the national university league tables, the School of Law is placed securely within the top 50 in the UK for post graduate job prospects.

This gives an idea of how the Law School compares with the rest of the Schools at Westminster. The status of the university as a whole is on the rise, and fast too, and being a relatively young university it must be one of few to receive such a blinding review in The Sunday Times.

Source: Times Online

Westminster has completed a ten-year modernisation of its four sites, costing 130 million, and has since added new gym facilities, a 1-million venue and a vast underground exhibition space.

The 33-million transformation of the former Harrow College, in north London was Europes largest university construction project and the redevelopment of one of the three central sites, opposite Madame Tussauds, was even more costly.

The large business school acquired a cloistered environment creating more space for teaching and research. The last phase saw the redevelopment of the New Cavendish Street site, near the BT Tower.

The greenfield Harrow campus boasts a high-tech information resources centre with good facilities for the highly rated media studies courses. Computing and design are also based on a site designed for 7,500 students.

Source: The Sunday Times

As inclusive and cosmopolitan as London itself, Westminster has an established record in promoting participation and diversity in higher education with almost everyone from state education backgrounds, virtually a third of the intake mature learners and about one in five of its students from overseas.

Westminsters scholarship programme pays out 4.3m a year. There are 30 gold scholarships worth 4,000 awarded each year, generally paid to students with AAB at A-level or equivalent. A further 100 silver scholarships of 2,000 per annum are handed out in return for BBB at A-level or equivalent. Fifty more awards of 3,000 are made to students progressing from years one to two. The university has also extended the upper income level for bursary eligibility from 25,000 to 60,000, which means most students are entitled to a cash award of 310 this year.

To educate for professional life is Westminsters mission statement, and recent investment shows it is paying more than just lip service to this. P3, a vast new underground exhibition space, opened last year at the universitys Marylebone hub and has already hosted London Fashion Week events and the launch of Architecture Week, as well as student degree

shows. Then theres the three-year programme of events, Ambika at P3, that aims to bring together artists, architects and creative practitioners from across the capital.

About 6,000 businesses on the universitys database supply a range of employment opportunities to students, as well as access to key personnel for talks, mentoring and coaching. ( Read this article in full )

Sources: HotCourses

Founded in 1838, the University of Westminster has superb locations in central London and Harrow well-served by transport links. It earned very high ratings for courses in Arabic, building, housing and surveying, Chinese, communication and media (including music), French, integrated health, politics and international relations, psychology, subjects allied to medicine and tourism. More than 22,000 students study at Westminster, with 75 per cent at undergraduate level.

There are also over 5,000 international students from more than 150 countries at the University. Opportunities for work placements to enhance employment prospects are available to all students.

Main subject areas include architecture and the built environment, biosciences, business and management, complementary therapies, computing, electronic engineering, English literature and linguistics, informatics, languages, law, media, arts and design, psychology and social sciences, for more details please see www.westminster.ac.uk/courses

From high quality IT labs, to extensive library and online learning resources. There are a wide range of support services and facilities, such as accommodation, careers, disability support, health, sports and the Students' Union. The University is close to excellent transport links. Administration is handled locally at each teaching site. Most teaching is likely to be on one site, with library and IT facilities on hand, and open late into the evening for the added convenience of our part-time students. Students are free to use services at other sites. ( Read this article in full )

More reviews of our Postgraduate LLM courses from Hotcourses

Source: The Guardian

If you want to be right at the heart of London, you could do worse than Westminster. Three of its campuses are bang in the middle of town; Harrow is slightly further flung, though still on the tube. In London, everything you could want is within easy reach. As the country's first polytechnic (in 1838), Westminster has a longstanding commitment to equal opportunities; lots of courses can be studied part-time and the student body is fantastically diverse. It puts careers at the centre of its mission and it's diligent about preparing students for their chosen profession.

Fees: 3,145 a year for all full-time undergraduate courses in 2008-9.
Bursaries: Bursaries at 310 a year for those receiving a grant. The university's scholarship programme is the largest of its kind in the UK, with 4.3m being awarded annually to over 500 students.
Accommodation: There are around 1,400 beds available to students across six halls in Harrow, Hoxton, Highgate, Victoria, Marylebone (refurbished for 2008) and Lambeth. Priority is given to those living more than 25 miles from campus, and the university runs a housing advice service to help applicants find alternative housing in the private sector. Halls cost between 85.40 and 138 a week.
Facilities: Recently revamped gym facilities and there's a 45-acre sports ground by the river in Chiswick. Libraries on all sites, with 24-hour access in Harrow and Marylebone. The student union boasts a 1m venue and an underground exhibition space; the student radio station is award-winning.
Transport: Three of the four campuses are in central London with excellent links. The fourth, in Harrow, is a 20 minute Tube ride away, or there's a 24-hour bus service. ( Read review in full )

Source: Education UK

University of Westminster is a forward thinking and dynamic place to study. The Institution was founded in 1839 and gained university status in 1992. It is one of the most diverse and international universities in the UK. Over 3,000 international students from more than 150 countries come to the University of Westminster every year.

The University of Westminster offers a very generous scholarship scheme for international students, making more than 120 awards each year. The scholarships vary in type and size, ranging from part tuition fee waiver to full fee waiver plus accommodation and return air fare. Some have very specific qualifying criteria - restricted to applicants from a particular country for example - whilst others are open to applications from all international students.

Three of Westminsters four sites (Cavendish, Marylebone and Regent) are very close to each other in the centre of London, rubbing shoulders with some of the city's most famous landmarks. Regent's Park, Oxford Street, Madame Tussaud's, the BBC, the British Library and Marble Arch are just some of these, all only a few minutes walk away. At Westminster students really do have a wealth of historical, cultural and intellectual treasures on their doorstep.

The fourth Westminster site is in Harrow, only a twenty-minute underground train journey from the city centre. Set in an area of green parkland close to the famous Harrow School, it offers a quieter pace of life whilst having all the attractions of the city centre just a short journey away.

Getting to the University of Westminster by public transport is easy. All sites are very close to at least one underground line and numerous bus routes, and all are within an hour's journey of the UK's main airports: Gatwick and Heathrow. ( Read review in full )

Source: Prospects.ac.uk

Westminster is now recognised as the leading modern university for research of international standing in the fields of Asian studies, communication, cultural and media studies, law and linguistics. Our research profile - a strong indication of levels of innovation and intellectual challenge - further underlines our status as a world leader in many subjects.

History: The University of Westminster has a long and distinguished history, from the founding of the Royal Polytechnic Institution in 1838, to the present day, it has provided high quality professional education in the heart of central London. A long-held emphasis on accessibility and practical knowledge, has led to a present day commitment to 'educating for professional life'.

Quality: The University is rightly proud of its achievements against teaching and research quality benchmarks. Recently described by The Sunday Times newspaper as 'unsurpassed in the modern university sector', the University gained 'excellent' ratings for 42% of the subject areas tested, and two subjects - Psychology and Tourism - were awarded the maximum possible score.

Our students: The University of Westminster teaches over 22,000 students studying degrees, Masters, research, professional programmes and short courses. Over 25% of our students are postgraduates, many studying part-time during the day or evening. There are students from over 140 countries at Westminster, making it a truly international study experience.

Support services: We believe that students will get the most from their studies, and the social aspects of university life with a full range of support services. The University can offer advice and guidance on a wide number of issues, from finding part-time work, to organising social events or financial advice. Services include:

Careers service
Counselling and Advice
Disability service
Health and chaplaincy
Housing service
International Office
Library and IT
Sports and recreation
Students' Union

( Read review in full )

Source: The Independent

Age: 169
History: The university is the former Polytechnic of Central London. Founded as Britain's first poly in 1838 to teach science and engineering, it was taken over in 1882 by philanthropist Quintin Hogg. Within a year his Polytechnic Young Men's Christian Institute had 5,000 students.
Address: Regent Street is the HQ. Three other campuses, one on Marylebone Road opposite Madame Tussaud's, another in New Cavendish Street and at Harrow.
Ambience: Three central London campuses are close together but have little to do with one another. Regent St has a listed marble foyer. Marylebone has had a 9.5m redevelopment; Cavendish St houses science and complementary therapies and has recently received a 35m redevelopment; Harrow boasts high-tech facilities for students of communications, design and media, management and computer science.
Vital statistics: A top-rated former poly with a decent reputation for research, it was the only new university to get a 5 (top rating) in the first research assessment exercise - for media and communications, the jewel in its crown. Achieved another top grade in the 1996 RAE. More than 23,000 students, of whom three-quarters are undergraduates. A diverse student body: around 4,000 international students come from more than 160 different countries. ( Read review in full )

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