University of Teesside
University location and figures
The University of Teesside is situated in the city center of Middlesbrough, North-East of England. It was established in 1929 as a technical college, the Constantine College. Then it moved to Teesside Polytechnic in 1970, and finally gained its current status in 1992.
Nowadays, there are about 19,000 students enrolled, primarily in the subjects where the university is rated and recognised as excellent:
Art and Design
Computer Science and IT
History
Nursing and Midwifery
Social Policy
Administration and Social Work
Medicine (Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy and Radiography)
The last decade saw a £70m investment in facilities and buildings, the Campus 2000 development. These include the Innovation and Virtual Reality Centre, the Library Resource Center and the IT laboratories.
The university is also host of:
the National Centre for Animation
the National Centre for Computer Games
the Northern Region Film and Television Archive
Animex, an annual international festival of animation
The School of Computing & Mathematics
The SCM was created in 1958, and became a pionneer institution to offer a degree in Computer Science. It got the British Computing Society Approval in 1972 in since then taught the BCS part 1 and 2 exams.
The School of Mathematic and Computing now offer three major subjects for its degrees: Computer Science, Visualisation and Multimedia.
In addition to its international recognition, the SCM attracted many significant awards and positive reviews, amongst them:
Latest Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) Teaching Quality Assessment (TQA) exercice: top rating Excellent
One of only thirteen UK computer science departments awarded by the Higher Education Funding Councils in the United Kingdom the grade of Excellent: the others are Cambridge, Edinburgh, Exeter, Glasgow, Imperial College, Kent, Manchester, Oxford, Southampton, Swansea, Warwick and York.
The Guardian University League Table: 14th best UK university in Computer Science in 2003, 11th best UK university in 2004
The Times Higher Education Supplement: 15th best UK university.
The Sunday Times University Guide: One of the 13 universities to offer Computer Science degree courses rated excellent.
The latest British Computer Society (BCS) reports highlights “the positive approach to course delivery, innovation and student support”. All BSc(Hons) carries either full or partial exemption of the BCS exams and some partial Chartered Engineer (CEng) status.
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