Students and Student Life
As of 2009/10 the university had around 14,000 students, of which 3900 were postgraduates. Students represented 120 different countries with about 46% men, 54% women. Of all of undergraduates, 19% were mature students (i.e. aged 25 years or more). The university has more than 590 different undergraduate degree programmes and more than 110 postgraduate taught programmes.
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