| Sex ratio (M:F): 34:66 |
Full-time undergraduates: 6,661 |
Applications per place: n/a
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Points range: 40-240 |
| Flunk rate: 16.6% |
Unemployed after 6mths: 9.7% |
Booze Index: £1.66
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Av. housing cost per week: £58.53
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| Av. debt per year: £7,677 |
Access fund: £479,612 |
Cost of living: ££
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Deep in the rolling countryside of near-Midland territory and unnervingly close to Milton Keynes, Northampton’s large enough to be a city without actually being one or having the snap-happy tourist responsibility. The University (which dropped its college status with admirable panache) is a couple of miles out of town on two tasteful, landscaped sites, linked by a shuttle bus...more detail The larger Park campus is the geekier of the two, while a mile away, the artier Avenue (see the pattern here?) is, indeed, fartier. Healthcare courses are upping the ante and gold stars also go to Education, Business and Art & Design...more on academic Lager louts and cider swiggers have a ten minute bus ride to pint o'clock...more on entertainment, but the Union, independent from NUS, dishes out bar-fulls of ents and eardrum splitting music extravaganzas...more on the SU Sport’s finally seeing some results, thanks to outside sponsorship and some strong women’s teams...more on sports With 1,400 rooms on campus, all freshers with Northampton as their first choice get beds, although some have to share (rooms, not beds although it may seem differently in freshers' week)...more on housing Disability support is excellent – they even have guide dog pens...more on welfare
Woohoo: Disability support as impressive as a cartwheeling hamster
Boohoo: Sports facilities a javelin throw off the mark
Tel: (0800) 358 2232
E-mail: study@northampton.ac.uk
Website: www.northampton.ac.uk