ABOUT US
Our strengths n Committed to research excellence: Ranked 19th in REF 2014 for research quality by The Times, nine departments are ranked in the top 25: Politics ranked 1st, Economics 5th, Art History 10th, Sociology 12th, Sport 13th, Philosophy 14th, Law 17th, History 21st, Essex Business School 24th. n World leader in the social sciences: The REF 2014 result ranked the University in the top four of universities for social sciences in the UK. The University has two ESRC-funded centres based in our Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER): the Research Centre on Micro-Social Change and the UK Longitudinal Studies Centre. ISER hosts Understanding Society, the UK longitudinal study of 40,000 households, which is the largest household panel survey in the world. The ESRC Business and Local Government Data Research Centre is based in Essex Business School. In addition the UK Data. n Students at the centre of our thinking: In our 2015 QAA Higher Education Review (HER) we met all standards and were commended for our student focus, confirming our commitment to excellence in providing our students with high-quality learning, supported by strong extra-curricular opportunities. The 2015 National Student Survey (NSS) results placed Essex 2nd for overall student satisfaction. Alongside a prestigious Investors in People Gold Award in 2011, the University of Essex Students’ Union was in an elite group of only ten students’ unions to win an NUS Students’ Union Evaluation Initiative Award for the quality of its services and in December 2011 it won the NUS/UK Council for International Students award for Democracy and Representation. n International outlook: Essex is one of the world’s most internationally diverse campus universities, with 40% of our students from outside the UK, representing 130 countries. We take pride in being globally recognised, being ranked 22nd in the Times Higher Education’s own ‘Top 100 under 50’ and 31st in the world for global outlook. n Strong financial performance: with a turnover of £200m we are already generating strong surpluses and aim to generate cash surpluses of 5.5% by the Academic Year 2016-17.
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