University of Bolton

The University of Bolton is a public university in Bolton, Greater Manchester, England. It has approximately 6,000 students across all sites and courses, with 700 academic and professional staff. Around 70% of its students come from Bolton and the North West region.

The University of Bolton is a Teaching Intensive, Research Informed Higher Education Institution whose distinctive high quality, student-focused, undergraduate and postgraduate programmes attract applications from all over the world. It will offer an exciting and challenging student experience with high levels of proactive student support and with excellent facilities which match the quality of its academic provision.

It will be a local resource, a regional asset and a national and international centre of excellence as well as a byword for exemplary vocationally focused undergraduate and postgraduate programmes delivered in Bolton and across the world.

Where appropriate,  students will study in an environment which reflects as closely as possible, the working environment which they are likely to enter, with industry standard equipment. All students will be offered work-based learning through placements, internships or ‘sandwich’ gap years.

They aim to provide a high-quality, teaching-environment that provides individualised support and unique opportunities to develop the skills and interests of each and every one of our students, offering a friendly and supportive atmosphere and small class sizes to enhance learning.

The University is one of Bolton's largest employers, and is a major contributor to the  town

•14,000 students across all sites and courses, with 700 academic and professional staff

•University’s teaching quality has consistently won the highest ratings possible from the  Government's quality control agency

•Professional accreditation for more than 30 of the teaching programmes