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21 Sep 2015
Registration begins at Loughborough University London
Loughborough University welcomed its first students onto its London campus this morning as registration opened at Loughborough University London.
More than 300 students from 33 different countries are expected through the doors over the next two days to sign onto one of 20-plus postgraduate courses, including the highly popular MSc in Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management which received over 1,000 applications.
A team of over 20 Peer Mentors – students currently studying at Loughborough University, and in London to help the new cohort settle in – were on hand to welcome the 2015 intake, giving them tours of the London campus and the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, and showing them around the local facilities.
Professor Mike Caine, Dean of Loughborough University London said:
“I am delighted to see Loughborough University London filled with students. There is a real buzz about the place.
“We have exceeded our student intake targets, which proves there is a genuine demand for the courses we are offering; Our Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management Master’s is already one of the most popular in Europe.”
A full programme of events is planned over the next 10 days to welcome students to London and introduce them to their courses content and tutors, before teaching officially begins on Thursday 1 October.
Loughborough University London is based in HereEast on the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.
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Article reference number: September News
Loughborough is one of the country’s leading universities, with an international reputation for research that matters, excellence in teaching, strong links with industry, and unrivalled achievement in sport and its underpinning academic disciplines.
It has been awarded five stars in the independent QS Stars university rating scheme, putting it among the best universities in the world, and was named University of the Year in the What Uni Student Choice Awards 2015.Loughborough is consistently ranked in the top twenty of UK universities in the Times Higher Education’s ‘table of tables’ and is in the top 10 in England for research intensity. It was 2nd in the 2015 THE Student Experience Survey and was named Sports University of the Year 2013-14 by The Times and Sunday Times. In recognition of its contribution to the sector, Loughborough has been awarded seven Queen's Anniversary Prizes.
In 2015 the University will open an additional academic campus in London’s new innovation quarter. Loughborough University London, based on the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, will offer postgraduate and executive-level education, as well as research and enterprise opportunities.