Bishop Grosseteste University

Bishop Grosseteste University (BGU) has been educating students for over 150 years in the heart of historic Lincoln, a beautiful and extremely student-friendly city. Their students are some of the happiest in the UK, they have extremely high rates of graduate employability and were recently rated amongst the very best universities in the UK for teaching excellence. BGU is set on a single-site campus, so just about everything students need is close by, whether it be their tutors, their friends, their lectures or the places in which they like to relax.

In recent years BGU has undergone an explosion of growth in many areas, remaining a small and friendly university whilst expanding and developing our portfolio of courses into more exciting new areas than ever before. They still consider themselves experts in education, but their teaching courses now sit alongside an exciting range of other disciplines. They currently educate over 2,000 students in a wide range of subjects – within their ever-expanding undergraduate portfolio, the traditional PGCE teacher training routes, work-based Foundation Degrees, Masters courses and even Doctoral study (and much more in between). At BGU, they pride themselves on being a supportive community, always striving to improve the lives of their students.

Why Bishop Grosseteste University?

• Beautiful Campus: In recent years, BGU has built upon and reimagined many elements of their campus to ensure that their students’ time with them will be as stimulating, interesting, relaxing and rewarding as possible. With places on campus to eat, drink, relax, meet friends, socialise, watch the latest films and exercise, they certainly manage to pack a lot into their campus to keep students busy!
• GOLD-Rated Teaching: BGU’s teaching has been awarded the highest possible rating in the first ever Government-led Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) assessment, a rating which was awarded to just the top 26% of universities in the UK. 
• Highly-Employable Graduates: The employability rates of BGU graduates are consistently high. In 8 of the last 10 years BGU has been top nationally for employability and further study one year after graduation – no other university in the country can boast that!
• Happy Students: BGU students are amongst the happiest in the UK – proven by the fact that they have consistently high ratings for student satisfaction in the National Student Survey. It could be down to the excellent facilities they have on campus, the support they receive from before they’ve even started studying, or the fact that they continue to receive that support up until graduation and beyond!