Aston University

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Aston University
Shield of Aston University.svg
Arms of Aston University
Other name
Aston
MottoForward
Type Public
Established1895 – The Birmingham Municipal Technical School
1927 – Birmingham Central Technical College
1951 – College of Technology, Birmingham
1966 – gained university status by royal charter [1]
Endowment £1.47 million (2022) [2]
Budget £197.7 million (2021–22) [2]
Chancellor Sir John Sunderland
Vice-Chancellor Aleks Subic
Students15,500 (2017–18) [3]
Undergraduates 11,935 (2017–18) [4]
Postgraduates 3,565 (2017–18) [4]
Location
Birmingham
,
England, United Kingdom

52°29′10″N1°53′22″W / 52.4860°N 1.8895°W / 52.4860; -1.8895
Campus Urban
60 acres (24 hectares) [5]
Colours Black and Red
   
Affiliations ACU
EQUIS
EUA
Universities UK
AACSB
M5 Universities
AMBA
MascotCyril the Squirrel (now deceased [ citation needed ])
Website www.aston.ac.uk
AU Birmingham logo Purple RGB.png

Aston University (abbreviated as Aston. for post-nominals) is a public research university situated in the city centre of Birmingham, England. Aston began as the Birmingham Municipal Technical School in 1895, evolving into the UK's first college of advanced technology in 1956. [6] Aston University received its royal charter from Queen Elizabeth II on 22 April 1966.

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Aston pioneered the integrated placement year concept over 50 years ago, [7] [8] [9] and more than 73% of Aston students take a placement year, the highest percentage in the UK. [10] The annual income of the institution for 2021–22 was £197.7 million of which £19.3 million was from research grants and contracts, with an expenditure of £219.4 million. [2]

In 2020, Aston University was named "University of the Year" by The Guardian, [11] and the newspaper also awarded Aston Students' Union its "Buildings That Inspire" award. [12] The Times Higher Education Awards named Aston University as its "Outstanding Entrepreneurial University" in 2020. [13]

In September 2021, Aston was shortlisted for University of the Year in the Times Higher Education Awards 2021. [14]

History

Predecessor institutions

The origins of Aston University are a School of Metallurgy formed in the Birmingham and Midland Institute in 1875. The Birmingham Municipal Technical School separated from the Institute in 1895, teaching chemistry, physics, metallurgy and electrical engineering; it expanded and by 1917 was also teaching botany and other subjects to trainee teachers. In 1911, commercial classes were introduced and grew into an independent School of Commerce by 1916. [15] The school changed its name in 1927 to the Birmingham Central Technical College, [15] to reflect its changing approach to teaching technology.

The Birmingham Municipal Technical School in Suffolk Street, founded in 1895. The Birmingham Municipal Technical School.jpg
The Birmingham Municipal Technical School in Suffolk Street, founded in 1895.
Queen Elizabeth II opening the Main Building at Gosta Green in 1955. The Queen opening the Main Building at Gosta Green in 1955.jpg
Queen Elizabeth II opening the Main Building at Gosta Green in 1955.

In 1951, the Technical College was renamed the College of Technology, Birmingham, [15] and work began on the Main Building at Gosta Green. In 1956, it became the first elite designated college of advanced technology and underwent a major expansion. [15] It moved into buildings that were constructed between 1949 and 1955 to a design by Ashley & Newman. Princess Margaret laid one of the first foundation stones at the base of the new building in 1951. The building is one of Europe's largest freestanding brick buildings. [18] [ unreliable source? ] In 1955, the College of Advanced Technology was opened by Her Majesty The Queen. [19] The college expanded again to a design by the City Architect of Birmingham Alwyn Sheppard Fidler between 1957 and 1965. [20]

University status

It officially became the University of Aston in Birmingham on receipt of its royal charter on 22 April 1966, and the first chancellor of the university, Lord Nelson of Stafford, was installed on 10 May. The charter of the university outlines objectives appropriate to a technological university: "to advance, disseminate and apply learning and knowledge by teaching and research, for the benefit of industry and commerce and of the community generally: and to enable students to obtain the advantage of a university education, and such teaching and research may include periods outside the University in industry or commerce or wherever the University considers proper for the best advancement of its objects." The emphasis given to the sandwich course system, and the maintenance of strong links with industry, arises naturally from the institution's history. The motto of the university is the same as that of the City of Birmingham – Forward. [21]

The main building with water sculpture Tipping Triangles by Angela Conner. The building is one of Europe's largest freestanding brick buildings. Astonmainbuilding.jpg
The main building with water sculpture Tipping Triangles by Angela Conner. The building is one of Europe's largest freestanding brick buildings.

In 1983, Aston University, in partnership with Birmingham City Council and Lloyds Bank, established Birmingham Technology Ltd., which manages the Aston Science Park adjacent to the university site. The establishment of the Aston Science Park and Aston University's contribution to the city of Birmingham was fully recognised when the area was granted its own postal address "The Aston Triangle" in 1984, emphasising the campus as an official district of Birmingham. The logo of the establishment takes from the shape of the area. [22]

2000 to present

Aston University hosted the British Science Festival in September 2010, said to be Europe's largest public science event.[ citation needed ]

Since May 2011, Sir John Sunderland has been the Chancellor of Aston University.

The university is a lead sponsor of Aston University Engineering Academy, a university technical college (UTC) which opened in September 2012. The UTC is for students aged 14 to 19 wishing to pursue further study and careers in engineering, and is located at the edge of the Aston University campus. [23]

In October 2014, Aston announced plans to launch Aston Medical School in October 2015. [24] The university also announced a £35 million cash injection for a major upgrade of the campus, including a new £19 million revamp of Aston Business School and improvement work to the Aston Institute of Photonic Technologies and the School of Languages and Social Sciences. [25]

In February 2017, Aston University launched its online programme website. Four of their MSc programmes are offered 100% online to students in the UK and worldwide, including the Aston Business School's MBA.[ citation needed ]

In July 2017, Aston became the first University in the UK to have degree apprenticeship graduates. [26] [27] Aston began working in close partnership with Capgemini, to create the first degree apprenticeship: Digital and Technology Solutions in 2012. [28]

In 2021, the university announced plans to close its Department of History, Languages and Translation, focusing instead on health, engineering, and business. This decision led to protests from members of the university, as well as humanities scholars broadly. [29] [30] Professional groups, including the Royal Historical Society and the American Historical Association, condemned the move, and public figures, including Sir Keith Burnett and Shadow Education Secretary Kate Green criticised the university leadership. [31] [32] [33] [34] [35] Facing public opposition and protests from staff and students, university officials reversed their position and agreed to save the History programme, although cuts to language instruction would continue. [36]

Campus

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Aston's self-contained green campus, in the city centre of Birmingham
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Aston University Library.

Established in 1895 as the Birmingham Municipal Technical School, [37] The university is situated on a 60-acre campus at Gosta Green, in the city centre of Birmingham, England. [38] As well as being home to over 3,000 students, the Aston University campus has the following amenities available: sports centres, swimming pool, 120 station gym, library, cafés, restaurants, pubs, shops, travel centre, hairdresser, health centre, dentist, places of worship, opticians, a bank, automated teller machines and plenty of outside space.

Aston University Library is on four floors and contains over 250,000 books, 800 current printed periodicals and has over 700 reader places. It provides online access to over 40 electronic databases and more than 3,400 electronic journals. The library is open 24 hours a day to Aston students and staff during exam time, and on average, around 12 hours a day during term time.

Around the campus there are also various open-access IT suites, offering computer and internet access 24 hours a day, seven days a week. They offer access to a range of software packages, database systems and computer-aided learning materials.

Sports

The Aston's sports facilities include a 25 m swimming pool, sauna and steam room, two sports halls, 120-station gym, weights and fitness rooms, two-storey dance studio and 35 sports clubs. The campus also has two 3G floodlit sports pitches. Clubs train and compete, many in the British Universities and Colleges Sports (BUCS) Leagues. Off campus the university manages a 40-acre sports ground with floodlit pitches, pavilion for all outdoor sports.

Organisation and administration

During 2020, Aston restructured its schools into three colleges, notably merging the School of Languages and Social Sciences with Aston Business School, and Aston Medical School with the School of Life and Health Sciences. The resulting colleges, schools, and departments are as follows:

College of Business and Social Sciences

College of Engineering and Physical Sciences

College of Health and Life Sciences

Coat of arms

The university's arms were granted on 18 March 1955 by Garter, Clarenceux and Norroy and Ulster kings of Arms to the Birmingham Corporation, for use by the former College of Technology. They were designed to show the college's connection with the city and with the teaching of technology. The arms consist of a shield and crest. The shield has two sections – the field (the main background) which is coloured blue and a chief (the broad band across the top of the shield) of silver. On the field is a diagonal line of five gold diamonds joined one to the other, similar to the first quarter of the Arms of the City of Birmingham and incorporated in the Arms of the college to show its connection with the city. This was adopted by the family of Birmingham which derived its name from the then hamlet of Birmingham, and provided the Lords of the Manor from the fourteenth to the sixteenth centuries. On the chief is depicted an open book bound in red placed between two black hammers, showing the connection of the university with technology, the book representing learning and the hammers engineering and allied trades.

The crest is also designed to stress the pursuit of knowledge. It consists of a red torch held erect by a forearm between two branches of gold laurel. Having been originally worn on the helmet of a fully armed person, the crest is always placed on the top of the helm. The method of joining the crest to the helm was usually concealed by decoration and, in the university's arms, this is effected by the use of a wreath and a crown. The wreath is silver, red and black, these colours being taken from the shield. It is surmounted by a mural crown (resembling a wall), which is reserved in modern grants for persons and organisations connected with public corporations. The cloth mantling which hangs down from the top of the helm is the survival of the cloak which was originally worn to protect the armour, coloured in the two principal colours of the shield, blue and gold. [39]

In 2016, to mark the 50th anniversary of the university, Her Majesty's College of Arms granted the favour of supporters to Aston University's arms, following a request from the Vice-Chancellor, Julia King, the Baroness Brown of Cambridge. On 29 September, during a service at St Phillips Cathedral, The Letters Patent was formally presented to Aston University by the York Herald, Michael Peter Desmond O'Donoghue Esq.. The arms are supported by a Canada goose and a red squirrel. The Canada goose represents the family of geese living on the university campus. The squirrel is the crest of the arms of Aston Manor and is a rebus. (The picture is a pun on the persons name. The owners of Aston Manor were the Holte family and a squirrel's nest is called a holt). This explains the ancient connection between the squirrel and Aston. The animal also appears on the university mace and on the chancellor's chain of office. This chain was originally the property of the mayor of Aston Manor. The gorse around the animals' necks is a reference to Gosta Green. During the 18th century, it was known as Gostie Green, this combined the name of the landowner (William de Gorsty) with the local plant called 'gorse' [40]

Academic dress

The Chancellor's Lake at the heart of the campus with triangular fountain in 2010. Aston University Lake 2010.JPG
The Chancellor's Lake at the heart of the campus with triangular fountain in 2010.
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Aston University Main Building.
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Aston Brain Centre.

The academic dress for graduates of the university is as follows:

Academic profile

Rankings and reputation

Rankings
National rankings
Complete (2024) [41] 41
Guardian (2024) [42] 25
Times / Sunday Times (2024) [43] 38
Global rankings
ARWU (2023) [44] 701–800
QS (2024) [45] 446=
THE (2024) [46] 401–500
Aston University's national league table performance over the past ten years Aston 10 Years.png
Aston University's national league table performance over the past ten years

Aston University has been ranked in the top 25 of UK institutions in the 2022 Guardian University Guide. [47]

Aston University holds an overall Gold rating as part of the UK Government's 2023 Teaching Excellence Framework. The framework evaluates universities on criteria including teaching quality, learning environment and student outcomes, taking into account factors such as student satisfaction, retention rates and employment. [48]

Many factors make up the overall League Table rankings; Aston prides itself on consistently strong performances for the metrics related to student outcome successes. For example, in the 2021 Guardian University Guide Aston are ranked 11th in the UK for ‘Continuation’ [49] which measures the proportion of students that drop-out of university following their first year. The 2021 Guardian Guide also ranks Aston joint 24th in the UK for ‘Value Added’ [50] which compares student University grades against their expected grades based on entry qualifications.

In addition to this, the 2021 Times/Sunday Times Good University Guide ranks Aston University 31st in the UK for the proportion of students achieving a 1st or 2:1 degree classification, [51] and the same publication ranks Aston 30th in the UK for ‘Graduate Prospects’, [51] based on the proportion of graduates in a professional level job or further study within 15 months of graduation.

In addition to these immediate successes of Aston's students and graduates, there is also evidence of strong long-term benefits of Aston degrees, as the 2020 Longitudinal Education Outcomes study found that Aston graduates had the 15th largest median salary of all UK institutions 5 years after graduation. [52]

Research

In the latest 2021 Research Excellence Framework, which assesses the quality of research in UK higher education institutions, Aston is ranked joint 58th by GPA and 56th for research power (the grade point average score of a university, multiplied by the full-time equivalent number of researchers submitted). [53] In the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise (RAE), 88% of Aston academic staff were submitted for research assessment, one of the highest proportions in the UK. According to the RAE, the university's strengths include Business and Management, General Engineering, Subjects Allied to Medicine (Optometry, Biology, Pharmacy and Psychology), Languages and European Studies. [54]

Admissions

UCAS Admission Statistics
20222021202020192018
Applications [lower-greek 1] [55] 23,68520,23018,73017,12014,140
Accepted [lower-greek 1] [55] 3,2503,5203,5853,4653,000
Applications/Accepted Ratio [lower-greek 1] 7.295.755.224.944.71
Offer Rate (%) [lower-greek 2] [56] 70.881.781.082.582.7
Average Entry Tariff [57] ——133124126
  1. 1 2 3 Main scheme applications, International and UK
  2. ↑ UK domiciled applicants

New students entering the university in 2020 had an average of 133 points (the equivalent of ABB-AAB at A Level). [57] According to the 2023 Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide, approximately 3% of Aston's undergraduates come from independent schools. [58]

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The EBRI building.

Aston Business School

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Aston Business School

Founded in 1947 [59] Aston Business School (ABS) is one of the largest and oldest business schools in the UK. [59] [60] The school was ranked 8th in the UK and 33rd in the world by QS in 2012 and it is among the top 60 of business schools in the world to hold triple accreditation. [61] ABS was the first UK business school to be awarded the prestigious EQUIS accreditation, in 1999. [62] ABS is the first institution in the UK to be allied with Beta Gamma Sigma by establishing a BGS Collegiate Chapter. In 2006 it opened a new £22m extension including new study rooms and two new lecture theatres. [63]

Aston University is currently top 100 in the World for Business and Management in the 2020 QS World Subject Rankings [64] and top 200 for Accounting and Finance [65] in the same publication.

The business school's Masters Management course was ranked by the Financial Times in 2012 as 5th in the UK, 33rd in Europe and 36th in the world. [66] The paper also ranked Aston Business School as 4th in the world for careers in 2011. [67] In the school's most recent Research Assessment Exercise in 2008, all research areas submitted ranked in the top 9 in the UK. 45% of the research submitted was judged to be "excellent" or "world-leading". [68] Top 1% of Business Schools Worldwide with Triple Accreditation from AMBA, AACSB and EQUIS World Top 100 Universities for Business and Management Studies by QS Ranking (2019). [69]

Aston is 2nd in the UK for developing marketing professionals and 7th in the UK for finance professionals, based on the career outcome data of more than 313+ million LinkedIn members. The university was also 23rd in the UK for accounting professionals. [70] According to the Complete University Guide 2016, Aston is ranked 6th for marketing, 22nd for accounting and finance, 22nd for economics and 23rd for business and management studies in the UK.

Student life

The Adrian Cadbury Building, Aston Students' Union new home since 2019. The Adrian Carbury Building.jpg
The Adrian Cadbury Building, Aston Students' Union new home since 2019.
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The William Murdoch and James Watt residences.
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Part of the Lakeside student residences.
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Aston Student Village completed in August 2013.

Students' Union

Aston Students' Union (SU) (formerly Guild) is a non-profit, independent charity set up with the aim of representing and supporting its members who are primarily current students at Aston University. The SU operates a number of commercial and non-commercial services including; the Advice & Representation Centre (ARC), the Aston Athletic Union which supports the university sports clubs, the Aston Societies Federation which supports a large number of non-sporting societies, the SU Shop, Copyshop and B4 Bar. The SU is funded by grant income from Aston University and by funds raised by the SU's commercial services.[ citation needed ] The SU is led by a Trustee Board consisting of elected students and external trustees. Day-to-day management is by a team of permanent staff and by an elected student team called the Executive Committee. The SU building consists of 5 floors and is located in the centre of the Aston University Campus. The Union received a block grant of over £2.1 million from the university in 2022

On 29 November 2006, the students voted to disaffiliate the Guild (now Union) from the National Union of Students, but voted to re-affiliate on 26 November 2014. [71]

Student housing

All of the student housing that Aston owned was sold to UNITE Students in 2016. In the 1970s, three tower blocks containing student accommodation were constructed on Aston University campus; Dalton, Lawrence and Stafford Towers. In April 2007, Aston University submitted a planning application for demolition of the three 1970s towers and to replace them with new student accommodation blocks as well as apartments for tutors, retail units and administrative offices. Lawrence and Dalton Towers were demolished on 8 May 2011. [72] Stafford Tower, Gem Sports Centre and Lakeside Conference Centre were demolished on 27 April 2014 to make way for a new entrance to Aston University and a five-acre green space. The new landscaped area includes a new walkway into the university from the city centre and a pavilion, to be used for teaching and as a catering facility for outdoor events. The new buildings are named the William Murdoch, the James Watt, the Harriet Martineau and the Mary Sturge Residences. [73]

Another addition to Aston University student dwelling stock is the Lakeside complex on campus which was completed in August 1999.

Notable people

List of chancellors

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Geoffrey Vernon Ball

List of vice-chancellors

Lecturers

Alumni


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Paul Drayson, Baron Drayson
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Kevin Warwick

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Politics

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