University of the West of England

The University of the West of England is a public university in Bristol, England. It descends from nineteenth-century Merchant Venturers’ technical schools, operated as Bristol Polytechnic from 1970, and received university status in 1992. Its main site is the Frenchay campus in north Bristol, with Glenside for health, Bower Ashton for creative arts, and additional buildings in the city centre.

Faculties cover business and law, health and applied sciences, environment and technology, and arts, creative industries and education. Graduate students use Bristol Business School, health simulation facilities at Glenside, and engineering and robotics laboratories at Frenchay. Applied research in robotics, health, the built environment, and creative industries is the usual profile.

Enrollment is about 35,000 students, including a large postgraduate taught cohort and international students from more than 100 countries. Staff number in the thousands. Alumni work in British public services, media, and industry around Bristol.

Graduate study is known for taught master’s degrees (MSc, MA, MBA, LLM) and professional doctorates as well as Ph.D. work by supervision. Taught programs combine coursework and a dissertation; research degrees follow the British thesis model. The year is two semesters. Students live on or near Frenchay or in Bristol neighborhoods, in a regional English city with aerospace employers at Filton.

In the Grad School Navigator directory, University of the West of England lists 1 master's program, in human resources.