Overview: Northumbria University is a popular University in New Castle in United Kingdom well known for providing multi cultural learning with excellent prospects for future learning for higher education industry and commerce in UK, Europe and all over the world. The University specializes in courses for arts and social sciences. The campus has outstanding facilities and an excellent international reach enabling students all over the world to benefit from its.....Continuing reading courses.
Location: Northumbria University is located in New Castle upon Tyne, North East England, New castle is well known for being one of the best student friendly city. Moreover, the city is centrally located giving ample opportunities for recreational activities. Northumbria University has excellent international reach. The transport links via sea, air and road connect the city to major places like Central London, Edinburg and North Ireland.
Established In: Northumbria University was established in 1984 as Rutherford College of Technology. Later in 1992 it acquired the University status. Today the University caters to the needs of 36,000 students and additional category of 4000 students coming from outside UK. The college offers as large as 32 programs catering to the needs of different students.
Established By: Nirthumbria University was founded by Dr John Hunter Rutherford in 1984.
Specialty: Northumbria University specializes in fields of Arts and Social Sciences including : Business, Arts and Design Computing, Environmental Science Built Environment applied healthcare sports science and psychology Teacher education and Clinical courses in Law.
Study Centre: Northumbria University is divided as two campuses; City Campus East and City Campus West. City Campus East consists of Schools of Law, Design and the Newcastle Business School (NBS). NBS and Law are under one building, and the School of Design is across a courtyard. City Campus East is a Newcastle landmark since opening in September 2007, winning awards from The Journal newspaper and the Low Carbon New Build Project of the Year accolade. City Campus West is noted for course in arts and social science, computer engineering and information science and life sciences. Also on this campus is located the University Library, Student’s Union building and Sports Central, a sports facility for students, staff and the community which opened in 2010.
Another campus is located 2.6 miles (outside of Newcastle, on Coach Lane, and is known as the Coach Lane Campus at Cochrane Park). The Coach Lane Campus is home to School of Health, Community and Education Studies. A free shuttle bus runs between the two campuses. One of the unique feature of the University is the 24/7 library centre with over 50,000 books, 30,000 journals and database available at any point of time. The excellent computing system at the campus allows students to marinating personal information, view class schedules, make online payments and perform varied functions just using as single system personalized for each student. Study material is available on the e-learning facilties; Notes, notifications from colleges, discussions, live news etc.
Hostel: Accommodation facilities are available on Campus as well as private hostels outside the university in near by areas. Northumbria University - Newcastle gives priority to new most new UK undergraduates and new overseas students. Second and third year students live in private houses which are numerous in New Castle. Those students who wish to continue to stay in the hostel can continue doing the same.
Infrastructure: The Campus East accommodates 9000 staffs and Students from school of Business, Design and law. The School of Health, Community and Education Studies is based at Coach Lane campus provides a full fledged learning concluding a library, clinic centre, sports facilities and seminar rooms. The Desktop ANYWHERE initiative enables students to access their emails and files from potentially anywhere in the world. An out-of-hours IT helpline and online support is available 24/7. The Student union has its own building, spacious for learning and recreational activities like sports. The building also has bars, clubs and a special room for performing arts and live music centre.
Faculty: Northumbria University - Newcastle is known for its excellent teaching staff. University of Northumbria has been awarded five National Teaching Fellowships for its excellent teaching facilities. Primary and secondary initial teacher education programsof University of Northumbria are rated as outstanding by OFSTED. Northumbria University believes that staff is essential for its long term success. The University recruits and retains the best staff with the necessary skills to support the achievement of the institutions mission and embrace it’s aims and objectives.
Accreditation: Accredited programmes essentially help an education institution to achieve quality standards. This is done by the assessment of the programs that fall under different criteria. The university is periodically visited by representatives of these professional bodies to ensure that the programmes adhere to their criteria. Privy Council accredits the University. Besides this, the University also has accreditations for individual courses.
Northumbria is a Public University continually involved in Public Engagement programs to involve universities throughout the nation to improve communication and understanding between institutes offering same programs. Being a Public University, the university also offers courses in Public administration.....Reading in short