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Royal Northern College of Music

Scores

• Student satisfaction                  3.76
• Research assessment             2.20
• Student/staff ratio                    11.30
• Completion                              83.90
• Good honours                         64%
• Graduate prospects               84%
• Entry standards                    328.00
• Academic services spend  594.00
• Facilities spend                      43.00

What do these scores mean?

History 

• Created in 1973 from a merger of the Royal Manchester College of Music (founded in 1893 with Sir Charles Hallé as Principal and renowned for the New Manchester Group of composers including Maxwell Davies and Birtwistle which emerged in the fifties) and the Northern School of Music. 

Location and Transport

• Situated on Oxford Road, Manchester's cultural corridor, 1.6km (1 mile) south of Manchester city centre and on ‘the busiest bus route in Europe'.
• Manchester is at the centre of the most comprehensive motor and rail network in the UK. It is a major motorway hub and recent improvements on the West Coast mainline plus a rebuilt Piccadilly station mean that rail travel to and from the city is now a pleasure.

 Accommodation 

• 316 places available in College's own Hall of Residence. Costs in the 2008–09 academic year are £90.50 per week inclusive of utility costs. Additional catering package available for purchasing meals through RNCM's own catering outlets. Local rents range between £60 and £120 a week.
• Manchester is a city in which you can live relatively cheaply. Living costs are comparable with other major UK cities in the North and considerably lower than in London and the South.
• For more information on accommodation at the Royal Northern College of Music, click here.

Entry standards 

• A high level of performing/compositional ability.
• Passes at GCE A level (A2) in a minimum of two subjects, normally including music, and passes in three different subjects at GCSE level (Grades A, B or C) or acceptable qualification equivalents.
• For more details of entry standards at the Royal Northern College of Music, click here.      

Student mix

• 2007–08, 663 students;
• 373 female and 290 male registered students;
• 25% of students are international, with over 40 countries represented.

Fees and bursaries 

In receipt of full Maintenance Grant £1,075
In receipt of partial Maintenance Grant  £329
Academic achievement   Scholarship

• Tuition fees (2010): £3,290.
• Scholarships are available to students who demonstrate outstanding ability and potential at audition.
• Nineteen per cent of additional fee income to be earmarked for bursaries.
• For more information on bursaries and scholarships at Royal Northern College of Music, click here.

Course flexibility 

Teaching standards 

• Achieved its own taught degree-awarding powers in January 2007.

Research standards  

• Rated 4 out of 5  for music in the 2001 research assessment exercise.

Academic strengths 

• The college is renowned internationally for its chamber music tuition. Also much imitated for its preparation of its students for the real world, giving them wide variety of practical experience.

Student facilities, including Library and Computing 

• Library with over 87,000 books and items of printed music, and more than 20,000 sound recordings, 20 listening stations and 24 IT workstations.
• Terminals situated around the main building, including an air-conditioned IT Studio which houses 11 PCs, all with the latest copy of Sibelius (composition) software installed.
• Over 120 pianos, more than half of them grand pianos.
• 80 tutorial spaces and individual practice rooms.
• 4 large public performance spaces including opera theatre and concert hall.

Disability service

• For information on the disability service at Royal Northern College of Music, please contact the Disability Officer.

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