University of Huddersfield is the place to learn and live

Now is a fantastic time to be a student at Huddersfield .

It's a successful, innovative, modern university that's going from strength to strength in academic achievements and levels of student satisfaction.

Time and again, university's students and graduates tell them that they are happy with Huddersfield's courses and delighted with the careers they've moved onto.

University of Huddersfield is in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, within easy reach of Leeds and Manchester. Both are just 45 minutes by road with Leeds 20 minutes and Manchester 40 minutes by rail. There is a regular service of up to four trains an hour.

University of Huddersfield offer high quality teaching with a strongly vocational emphasis. They have nearly 300 pre-degree and undergraduate degree courses and over 60 postgraduate courses.

They are among the UK's top five providers of 'sandwich courses' where students benefit a paid work placement in industry or commerce. University have a strong research profile and excellent grades for teaching quality.

Quality Counts

• In 2004 Huddersfield gained the highest possible ratings available in an institutional review by the Quality Assurance Agency (QAA).

• All seven academic areas assessed by the Government's Teaching Quality Agency since 2000 achieved among the highest grades possible. University Of Huddersfield Top For Teaching

• In the 2005 Times Higher Education Supplement 'League Table', Huddersfield scored higher than any other post-1992 university in the North of England.

Research Strengths

• Over 25% of research staff work in world-class Grade 5 research groups.

• Over 75% are rated as nationally excellent.

• History, Social Work, Music, Materials (Chemistry) and Mechanical Engineering all gained high grades (4 and 5) in the most recent Research Assessment Exercise. In six subjects the University gained the highest grades of any post-1992 university in Yorkshire and Lancashire.