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Top 10 unis for Facilities Spend 2024

Are you interested in who tops the table for Facilities Spend? Check out the Top 10 Unis in the UK for Facilities Spend in 2024.

CHOOSING A UNIVERSITY LEAGUE TABLES UNDERGRADUATE

Tamsin Mosse 13 Jun 2023

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What does Facilities Spend mean?

Facilities spend refers to the expenditure per student on staff and student facilities and is calculated using data from the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA).

How is it calculated?

A university's expenditure on student facilities like sports, careers services, health etc, is divided by the number of full-time equivalent students in the latest year. Expenditure over three years is averaged to allow for uneven costs.

This measure tends to disadvantage some collegiate universities as it mostly includes central university expenditure. For example, at Cambridge or Oxford, a significant amount of facilities expenditure is by the colleges, but this does not appear in the university’s accounts.

Who comes out on top for Facilities Spend in the UK for 2024?

Harper Adams stays number one in this top ten for 2024. There’s change in the rest of the top three, with Birmingham climbing four places to take second and Essex up one to take third.

East Anglia and Cambridge maintain the same spot in the top ten this year, but the real story is Bangor University, a new entry to this chart and up an incredible 16 places to take ninth.

1. Harper Adams University

2. University of Birmingham

3. University of Essex

4. Loughborough University

5. Heriot-Watt University

6. Liverpool Hope University

7. University of East Anglia (UEA)

8. University of Cambridge

9. Bangor University

10. University of Exeter

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Read through our subject guides to find the right course for you.
Take a look at our careers guides to see what you can achieve with your chosen course.
Use Uniselect to shortlist universities that provide your chosen course.
Find out more about your shortlisted unis with our university profiles.
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