University of Northampton - Academic Profile

Academic Profile

The university has approximately just under 14,000 students spread across its two campuses. It is divided into six schools:

• The Arts
• Science and Technology (formerly Applied Sciences)
• Education
• Health
• Business
• Social Sciences

There is a separate business centre, the Sunley Management Centre. This is a dedicated centre for management training and development that also provides a large amount of the university's conference facilities.

The university offers a wide range of undergraduate degrees with over 250 courses as well as foundation degrees, diplomas and a variety of postgraduate opportunities up to PhD level. It is one of only a handful of universities in the UK able to offer two-year fast-track degrees (currently for management and marketing and law) though it also offers four-year extended degrees with a year in industry. The university is internationally renowned for Waste Management education and research. Other centres of excellence include Centre for Children and Youth (childhood and Children's Geographies), Transpersonal Psychology, leather technology and lift engineering. Degree programmes in Environmental Science subjects offer overseas fieldwork trips for undergraduate students to locations such as North America and the Canary Islands.

The annual summer fashion show attracts international attention, particularly the summer 2012 show, which for the first time was held at Silverstone Circuit.