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About our University | www.essex.ac.uk About our University We received our Royal Charter in 1965 and are now one of the UK’s leading academic institutions, rated ninth nationally for research excellence. 4 | Postgraduate Prospectus 2012
www.essex.ac.uk | About our University Academically outstanding In the last national Research Assessment Exercise (RAE, December 2008), our University of Essex was ranked ninth out of 159 universities in the UK for the quality of our research, with most departments, schools and centres rated as ‘internationally excellent’. The RAE is a peer review exercise to evaluate the quality of research in UK higher education institutions undertaken by the four UK higher education funding bodies. The ratings are a strong indicator of the number and quality of our research-active staff and the extent to which we create a supportive infrastructure for research. The RAE provided quality profiles for research in each submission of research activity made by institutions. Profiles indicate the proportion of research activity within a submission in each of the five quality levels: 4* = ‘world-leading’; 3* = ‘internationally excellent’; 2* = ‘internationally recognised’; 1* = ‘nationally recognised’; and unclassified = ‘below nationally recognised work’. However, we also scored strongly in other fields, featuring in the UK’s top ten in half of our 14 subject areas submitted. This included being second in the UK for History and for Essex Business School (Accounting and Finance subject area), ninth for Art History and tenth for Philosophy. More detailed information about our RAE results is at: www.essex.ac.uk/about/rae and further information about the RAE process is at: www.rae.ac.uk. Exceptional experience In 2011 we took part in the Postgraduate Taught Experience Survey. Of all our taught postgraduates who responded to the survey, 85 per cent said their teaching and learning with us had met or exceeded their expectations, while 90 per cent said that their overall experience as a postgraduate with us had met or exceeded their expectations. We also took part in the Postgraduate Research Experience Survey which revealed that over 82 per cent of our research students who took part said their overall experience with us had met or exceeded their expectations. For more information on both surveys, please visit the Higher Education Academy’s website at: www.heacademy.ac.uk. Academic diversity We have four faculties: Humanities and Comparative Studies; Law and Management; Science and Engineering; and Social Sciences. Our departments and schools each fall within a faculty and are: n Biological Sciences n Computer Science and Electronic Engineering n East 15 Acting School n Economics n Essex Business School n Government n Health and Human Sciences n History n International Academy n Language and Linguistics n Law n Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies n Mathematical Sciences n Philosophy and Art History n Psychology n Sociology Our staff were submitted either within a departmental submission or within a cross-departmental submission. The results of the RAE showed that of our research activity: n n n 22 per cent is rated as ‘world-leading’; 63 per cent is rated as at least ‘internationally excellent’; and 93 per cent is rated as at least ‘internationally recognised’. Our last RAE also re-confirmed our place as the UK’s leading university for the social sciences, with Government top, Sociology joint top, Economics third and Linguistics fourth nationally. Our highest proportion of world-leading research was in Government and in Economics with 45 per cent and 40 per cent respectively classed as 4-star, while 35 per cent of research in Sociology was classed as 4-star. Postgraduate Prospectus 2012 | 5
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