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Introduction to University

What is Higher Education (HE)?

– 1000s of different courses available in the UK – 100s of different places to study

Why go to University?

Prepare for a particular career Study a subject you enjoy Taught by experts Personal challenge Job

• pportunities

Transferable skills Flexibility/ choice Independent study Excellent resources/ facilities Potential to earn more Unique

• pportunities

New friends Freedom Social life

Name a University

Campus University – Leeds

City University – University College London

Collegiate University – Cambridge and Oxford

Choosing a course

• 1. The best way to get a good job is to get a good

degree from a good university.

• 2. Students do well at university in subjects that

genuinely interest them: they enjoy themselves, get good results, and tend not to drop out.

• 3. Apply to do a subject you will enjoy and do well

in – remember a good degree gets you a good job!

Course choice and career prospects

• Some careers require a specific degree, e.g. Architecture;

Engineering; Medicine; Veterinary Medicine

• Some jobs in the commercial or business world (~5% of the total)

also require particular degree subjects: typically, Mathematics or Languages

• The majority of top jobs don’t specify a degree subject – they ask for

a good degree (Class I or II.1) from a good university, in any subject (and if necessary professional training follows) Law Business Teaching IT Journalism and publishing Public administration Accountancy and finance

Banking & investment recruits

Legal training recruits

Russell Group Universities

Why choose a Russell Group University?

• Challenging, stimulating courses
• Top-rated education and teaching
• Superb facilities and resources
• Great social life
• Supportive environment
• Excellent career prospects

Job prospects

Source: Graduate Employment and Earnings, 1994 Group (2008)

Graduates from RI universities are more likely to get graduate level jobs

Earning potential

Source: Graduate Employment and Earnings, 1994 Group (2008)) Graduates from RI universities are likely to earn more

Christ’s Churchill Clare Clare Hall Corpus Christi Darwin Downing Emmanuel Fitzwilliam Girton Gonville and Caius Homerton Hughes Hall Jesus King’s Lucy Cavendish Magdalene Murray Edwards Newnham Pembroke Peterhouse Queens’

Robinson

• St. Edmund’s

Selwyn Sidney Sussex

• St. Catharine’s
• St. John’s

Trinity Trinity Hall Wolfson

The University of Cambridge

Courses at Cambridge

• Anglo-Saxon, Norse and

Celtic

• Architecture
• Asian and Middle

Eastern Studies

• Classics
• Economics
• Education
• English
• Geography
• History
• History of Art
• Human, Social and

Political Sciences

• Land Economy
• Law
• Linguistics
• Management Studies
• Modern and Medieval

Languages

• Music
• Philosophy
• Theology and Religious

Studies

• Chemical Engineering
• Computer Science
• Engineering
• Manufacturing

Engineering

• Mathematics
• Medicine
• Natural Sciences
• Psychological and

Behavioural Sciences

• Veterinary Medicine

Student life

PARTY PARTY PARTY! All work and no play? What is it like?

Academic life

• Small-group teaching – supervisions
• Lectures, classes, seminars, practicals, field trips
• Independent study
• Assessment
• Director of Studies – academic progress
• Tutor – welfare

A Medic

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A Historian

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However…

Social life

Sport, music and drama at every level University and College clubs and societies

College life

College life

Common facilities include:

• accommodation
• JCR
• library and computing

facilities

• dining hall and bar
• sports facilities

Where would you like to live?

Differences include:

• subjects offered
• size / number of students
• location
• specific facilities
• appearance

The application process

Choose course and College UCAS application

(Cambridge Extenuating Circumstances Form))

Submit by 15 October Result of application Choose ‘firm’ and ‘insurance’ choices Exam results/ confirmation Written work / tests Start university Complete

• nline SAQ

(Cambridge)

Interview

What information is used in selection?

GCSE grades Any available A2 module scores AS module scores (UMS marks) School or college reference Submitted written work (if requested) UCAS Personal Statement Tests taken at or before interview (if required) The interview SAQ Extenuating Circumstances Form (if submitted)

CAMBRIDGE

Predicted grades

What are top Universities looking for?

• Evidence of enthusiasm for and depth of interest in the

course

• Do you have the relevant knowledge, subject skills and

qualities?

• Are you well-informed and curious?
• Have you read around the subject?
• Are you logical, analytical, keen and quick to learn,

determined, self-disciplined?

• Organised, motivated, adaptable & flexible?
• Well suited to the course and system
• Fun to teach

What can you do now?

• Magazines
• Journals
• Broadsheet newspapers
• BBC website
• Radio 4
• Podcasts
• Documentaries
• University websites
• Local library

Read around your subject (outside the A-Level syllabus)

Finding out more

• Undergraduate prospectus
• College prospectus
• University/College websites
• Open days
• Outreach activities
• Contact a department or a College

admissions office

Useful links

www.ucas.ac.uk www.russellgroup.ac.uk www.suttontrust.com www.study.cam.ac.uk/undergraduate/ www.becambridge.com