Aston University is a vibrant, welcoming and cosmopolitan campus university in the heart of Birmingham, the UK’s second largest city. It was founded in 1895 and was chartered as a university by Queen Elizabeth II in 1966. The campus has five faculties (Business, Engineering and Applied Sciences, Language and Social Sciences, Life and Health Sciences, and School of Medicine) offering undergraduate, undergraduate, graduate, and research programs. Aston has over 11,000 undergraduate students and her over 2,000 postgraduate students from over 120 countries.

Aston consistently ranks high in various international rankings. Highlights include the world’s top 100 “golden age” universities (Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2017), the world’s top 200 (2018 QS Graduate Employability Rankings) and Europe’s top 200 (Times Higher Education European University Rankings). included. ). 2018).

Whichever undergraduate course you study, you can choose between French, German, Spanish, Mandarin and Arabic as an elective module within the course or as an extra-curricular option to study at Aston. The university offers more than 30 joint honors degrees, allowing you to study two separate subjects at the honors level but in a way that integrates the two disciplines.

For international students, Birmingham Airport is 20 minutes by train from Birmingham New Street Station, and London is 90 minutes by train or 2 hours by car. Our multicultural campus is just a 10 minute walk from the city’s major shopping and entertainment centres. The 2015 Mercer Quality of Living Report ranked the city of Birmingham as having the highest quality of life among non-capital UK cities. Aston University was ranked #1 for student quality of life in his 2010, and FHM and Virgin Student ranked it the friendliest university in the country.