University of Bath

The University of Bath is a public research university on Claverton Down, a hill above the city of Bath in southwest England. It received its royal charter in 1966, continuing a line of technical education in Bristol that dates to the nineteenth century. It is a campus university, with teaching and residence concentrated on one site overlooking a Georgian city listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site.

Four faculties—Engineering and Design, Humanities and Social Sciences, Science, and the School of Management—house most teaching. The university is identified with mechanical, electrical, and civil engineering, architecture, mathematics, sport and exercise science, social policy, and management. Research groups in sustainable chemical technologies, public policy, and high-value manufacturing sit alongside departmental laboratories.

Enrollment is about 19,000, with a high share of postgraduate taught students and a large international cohort from well over 100 countries. Academic staff number around 1,500. Alumni include engineers, civil servants, and Olympic athletes trained through the university's sport science programs.

Graduate study is dominated by one-year taught master's degrees (MSc, MA, MRes) and the Ph.D., with integrated MEng routes at the undergraduate and master's boundary. Doctoral work is supervisory and research-based. The academic year is organized in semesters. Students live on or near Claverton Down and go into Bath for the city; London is about ninety minutes by train.

In the Grad School Navigator directory, University of Bath lists 66 graduate programs across 27 subjects: 57 master's programs and 9 doctoral programs, with the widest choice in biology, business & management and economics. University of Bath holds rank 150 in the GSN Overall University Ranking.