THE UNIVERSITY OF HUDDERSFIELD SUCCESSFUL, GLOBAL AND MODERN – WELCOME TO THE UNIVERSITY OF HUDDERSFIELD
WHY DO NEARLY 20,000 STUDENTS CHOOSE TO STUDY AT HUDDERSFIELD?
Excellence The University of Huddersfield is a growing centre of research and excellence and we always push the boundaries of knowledge. • The University of Huddersfield achieved a Gold Teaching Excellence and Student Outcomes Framework (TEF) award in June 2017. This award expired in June 2021 and the scheme is currently being revised. We look forward to being reassessed when the awards are re-opened in 2023. • We won the first Global Teaching Excellence Award recognising the University’s commitment to world-class teaching and its success in developing students as independent learners and critical thinkers (Higher Education Academy, 2017). • Our academic staff are continually rated as providing high- quality teaching in an exciting and stimulating environment. In fact, Huddersfield is joint first in England for professionally qualified teaching staff (HESA 2021). • We are joint second for National Teaching Fellowships which mark Britain’s best lecturers in Higher Education, winning a total of 18 since 2008 (2021 data). • We’ve world-leading applied research groups in biomedical sciences, engineering and physical sciences, social sciences and arts and humanities. • The University of Huddersfield became the Times Higher Education University of the Year in November 2013. Judges highlighted the University’s outstanding record for student satisfaction and employability with the University placed in the top ten in the country in both categories. We asked our staff and students why they thought the University of Huddersfield won the University of the Year award.
Whatever you aim to do in life, it pays to get a good education. And with high standards of teaching and learning and excellent facilities that’s exactly what our students can expect from the University of Huddersfield. Based right in the town centre and at the heart of the local community, we help thousands of people, from school leavers to those returning to education after a gap, achieve their goals each year.
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