Keele was the first UK University of the 20th Century and is the UK’s largest integrated campus university. Located at the heart of the UK, Keele is easily accessible from anywhere in the country. Set in over 600 acres of parkland, the University is within an hour’s drive of Manchester and Birmingham, and under two hours by train from London. Keele is dedicated to helping students make the most of their potential. Keele offers a safe and friendly community atmosphere, with some 62% of undergraduate students living on campus, along with many postgraduate students and staff.Keele also has a small academic campus at the University Hospital of North Staffordshire, which houses both educational activities and research.
A key strategic aim of the University is to promote a campus environment that embraces and promotes sustainability, and aspires to become a sustainable community.
Keele was one of the first Higher Education Institutions to be awarded the Carbon Trust Standard in 2008. The Carbon Trust Standard was developed to encourage good practice in carbon measurement and reduction by private businesses and public sector organisations.
Local buses run between campus, the hospital site and surrounding towns every 10-20 minutes.
Three-year degree courses ask for between (AAB–BBC). Students entering Keele are required to have, as a minimum, three A-level passes or the equivalent in other qualifications and GCSE grade C (minimum) in English Language and Mathematics or a Science subject. Some subjects require GCSE Mathematics for entry, sometimes at grade A or B. If you do not have GCSE Mathematics or Science at grade C or above, please contact the Admissions Office for advice. It may be that we can accept other qualifications you have in lieu of the GCSE requirement.
Local students 30%.
Male : Female 45% : 55%.
UK+EU : Overseas 88% : 12%.
State : public school 9 : 1.
Course Flexibility
Keele prepares its students for their future careers by providing opportunities to study two subjects at degree level. The choice of dual honours degree subject combinations allows students to both prepare for their chosen careers or to broaden their future career prospects if they are undecided on their choice of career when they begin their studies. Keele also provides a range of vocational and professional courses at undergraduate and postgraduate level, for example in Medicine, Pharmacy, Health, Social Care, Education, Law, and the Sciences. Keele’s undergraduate programmes will enable students to develop their intellectual, personal and professional capabilities. These capabilities are known as the ten Graduate Attributes and they include independent thinking, synthesizing information, creative problem solving, communicating clearly, and appreciating the social, environmental and global implications of your studies and activities.
Keele’s educational programmes and learning environment are designed to help Keele students become a well-rounded distinctive graduates who are capable of making a positive and valued contribution in a complex and rapidly changing world. Keele graduates are highly prized for their flexibility of thought and the maturity of their social skills. The University has one of the best graduate employment rates in the UK, ensuring that our students achieve their potential. Keele remains in the UK top ten for student employability, with 93.8% of students who graduated in 2010 finding full-time employment within a year. On campus there is the opportunity to experience a truly international flavour as the diversification of Keele’s student population now sees more than 100 countries represented . Nearly all undergraduate students get the opportunity to spend a semester abroad as part of their studies and the University has more than 50 partner universities worldwide.
Keele students are among the most satisfied in the country. The University is in the top ten of UK universities for student satisfaction as confirmed by the National Student Survey 2011. The annual survey which began in 2007 has shown that 90% of Keele students were satisfied with their course compared to an average of just 83% nationally. Subject areas scoring highly included Anatomy, Physiotherapy, Nursing, Pharmacy, Geology Mathematics, Human and Social Geography, Physics and Astronomy.
Some 85% of Keele University's research is now classified as world leading and of international importance as a result of the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise (RAE). Some 11% of the university's research submitted for assessment was judged to be world leading. This compares to 6% achieving the top grade in the previous RAE in 2001. Keele research has been rated world class in terms of originality, significance and rigour in Primary Care, Physics, Applied Mathematics, Business and Management, Law, Politics, Russian, English Language and Literature, History, Music and General Engineering. Keele also performed particularly well in Music, Applied Mathematics, Social Policy and Administration and History. Keele is a leading world player in many research areas, including primary healthcare, especially around arthritis and muscular skeletal problems, secondary healthcare, including stroke medicine, and health-related research on insect-borne diseases in the Tropics; in environmental science, astrology and the life sciences; and in areas of the humanities and social sciences, including music, history and English Literature.