The University of Science and Technology in Manchester:
6th ranked research university in the UK
"Students who want to be snapped up by employers should head for UMIST"
(Times Educational Supplement)
the Chancellor of the Exchequer said
about UMIST in his speech:
“Let me say how pleased I am to be speaking here at UMIST.
Founded early in the nineteenth century by the business
community of Manchester, it enters the Twenty First Century a
leading centre for scientific research, its links with business
stronger than ever – promoting growth, jobs and opportunity for the
North West region and beyond.”
Professor John Garside
Vice Chancellor
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| Top 10
Universities |
1999/2000 |
1998/1999 |
| UMIST |
1 |
3 |
| Cambridge |
2 |
1 |
| (L) Imperial |
3 |
2 |
| Manchester |
4 |
4 |
| Bristol |
5 |
11 |
| Birmingham |
6 |
6= |
| Oxford |
7 |
5 |
| Aston |
8 |
18= |
| Brunel |
9= |
6= |
| Warwick |
9= |
6= |
Employers Vote for UMIST Course
A recent survey of employers, by the 1999 GTI IT
Business Journal, placed UMIST’s Department of
Computation – along with respective departments at
Imperial, Manchester and Cambridge – at the head of
the table of preferred UK universities for computing
graduates. The survey involved top telecommunications
firms, hardware manufacturers, IT consultancies,
software houses and major IT users.
Nearly 50% of the employers surveyed target particular
degree courses and universities. Demand for IT
graduates has increased by 8% from last year, with 57%
of employers planning to increase their recruitment
intake over the next few years. The top three skills
most valued in graduates by employers were technical
aptitude, communication skills and problem solving
ability. The good news is that universities are
delivering graduates with these abilities, with 8 out
of 10 employers who expressed a preference
acknowledging that today’s graduates were as good or
better than their predecessors of a few years ago.
The Department of Computation regularly features as
one of the employers’ top 3 favourites producers of IT
graduates among the UK’s 87 computing departments.
This success is underpinned by the Department’s use of
assessed modules covering personal and professional
development in all three years of its undergraduate
courses and in its postgraduate courses, as well as
making extensive use of these in more technical
modules.
The GTI IT Business Journal also contains a number of
articles by UMIST graduates, and two by Computation
staff: on opportunities for masters conversion courses
(by Thierry Scheurer, MSc Computation Course Tutor)
and research in IT (by John Keane, Research
Co-ordinator). These articles, together with UMIST’s
excellent reputation with employers is strong
testament to the hard work putting into UMIST’s IT
courses by academic staff, industrial input and the
students themselves.
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