Hartpury University has been ranked in the top three UK institutions for teaching by full time postgraduate students in the Postgraduate Taught Experience Survey 2024 and is a top five UK university for overall postgraduate satisfaction.
Broken down by subject, the university was ranked number one for teaching, engagement, assessment and organisation, as well as number two for overall satisfaction across its postgraduate sport degrees (96% overall satisfaction).
Hartpury University is also number two in the UK for overall satisfaction across postgraduate animal, equine and veterinary nursing degrees.
The PTES is a higher education sector-wide survey to gain insight from taught postgraduate students – master’s, postgraduate certificate and postgraduate diploma qualifications – about their learning and teaching experience.
Specific areas examined are teaching and learning, engagement, assessment and feedback, organisation and management, and skills development. The survey also considers students’ motivations for taking their programme and – where relevant – their experience of undertaking a dissertation or major project. It was developed in consultation with the sector and robustly tested the survey across diverse disciplines, institutions and students to ensure it produces valid results.
Professor Andy Collop, Vice-Chancellor, Principal and CEO of Hartpury University and College said: “We’re absolutely delighted with these results and are extremely grateful to those students who took part and provided such important feedback. We use the feedback from students, as well as our staff and employers, to strengthen our postgraduate offering and meet the needs of industry.
“We feel that there’s never been a more exciting time to study a postgraduate degree at Hartpury University. Our students continue to make a real difference whether leading community or consultancy projects in our Hartpury Sports Business Hub, or executing research and knowledge exchange activities in the various industries in which we specialise.”
Hartpury University offers undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in sport, equine, animal, agriculture and veterinary nursing subjects. New postgraduate degrees available to study from September 2024 include an MRes Animal Science (Livestock), MSc Animal Assisted Counselling and Psychotherapy, MSc Biodiversity Conservation and Master of Business Administration (MBA) Top-up.
Applications to study a postgraduate degree are open now.
A year of accolades
It’s been a strong year for Hartpury University. The latest data released by HESA’s Graduate Outcomes Survey 2024, shows that 97% of Hartpury University graduates are in employment, further study or other purposeful activity, placing the institution in the top 10% of UK universities, equal first in the South West. Hartpury also ranks eighth among UK universities and first in Gloucestershire for Academic Support, according to the results of the National Student Survey (NSS) 2024.
In September 2023, the university achieved the highest triple Gold rating in the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF).
