Academic Quality
The UK national Quality Audit of University of Bolton 2005 reports that "broad confidence can be placed in the soundness of the current management of the quality of its programmes and in the university's institutional-level capacity to manage effectively the security of its awards."
In 2006 the university was awarded the highest level of recommendation by the government's quality control agency for universities, the Quality Assurance Agency (QAA). The university was also ranked top in the North West region for student satisfaction by the Times Good University Guide 2008, coming in the top 15 of all UK universities. The same survey also found the university was within the region's top five universities for the number of students who found graduate-level jobs or carried on with their education six months after graduation. In the Education Guardian one report ranked Bolton first in the "Fastest Growing University" category. Its course in Building Studies is also ranked No. 1 in the UK by students.
As well as offering research opportunities, Masters and PhD degree, it is known for its vocationally focused and industry-relevant taught degree programmes. Among its most popular courses are its Business and Media programmes. The Times states: ‘The university is not research-driven, but engineering, architecture and the built environment, social work and social policy all contained some ‘world-leading’ research in the 2008 assessments’
| 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Times Good University Guide | 108th | 108th= | 111th | 93rd | 88th | 98th | ||||||
| Guardian University Guide | 116rd | 114th | 117th | 110th | - | 67th | 102nd | 62nd | 86th | |||
| Sunday Times University Guide | 121st | 119th | 119th | 120th | 120th= | 121st | 115th | 107th | 108th | 97nd= | 111th | 116th |
| The Complete University Guide | 112st= | 112th | 112th= | 91st= | ||||||||
| The Daily Telegraph | 91st= |
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