Why choose ARU?
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Why ARU
University of the Year 2023
We were proud to be named Times Higher Education University of the Year 2023.
World-class facilities
Study in award-winning facilities, the result of major investment in our campuses and learning spaces.
Personal Development Tutors
Benefit from a Personal Development Tutor who's here to support you throughout your time at ARU.
Employability support from day one
Get career-ready with support from our Employability Service, while you're studying and after you graduate.
Health and wellbeing
Access support, should you need it, with our range of health and wellbeing services.
Sustainability
We're incorporating sustainability and environmental awareness into every aspect of university life.
Undergraduate
Find your future at ARU. Apply today and start your university
journey in September.
Postgraduate
Expertise matters. Study a Masters or research degree at ARU,
and take your career to the next level.
Why ARU?
Ambition
We’re not only academically ambitious for ourselves but for our students.
We’ve received a Gold award for the quality of our education in the Teaching Excellence Framework, a UK-wide review of university teaching standards.
Our graduates find success in their working lives. We’re ranked 1st in our region and 8th in the country for undergraduates working as managers, directors or senior officials within 15 months of graduating.
Excellence
We were named Times Higher Education University of the Year 2023. This prestigious award recognized our success in delivering high-impact initiatives across our campuses.
In November 2021, we were proud to receive The Queen’s Anniversary Prize for our world-leading music therapy work – and in particular our research with people living with dementia, and their families. The Queen’s Anniversary Prizes recognize outstanding work by UK universities and colleges that shows the highest levels of quality and innovation and delivers significant public benefit.
Collaboration
We’re a place where collaboration, research and scholarly activity inform everything we do. Many of our courses are recognized by industry and a large number are professionally accredited, making our students career-ready.
Each year, we also help 2,000 businesses grow with interns, training, research and collaborative programs.
Impact
We’re purposeful, challenging and curious about our world. We deliver impactful research which tackles pressing issues and makes a difference, from addressing health inequalities to enhancing public safety.*
Our community is incredibly important to us, and we’re proud of the role we play in our cities and the wider region – including the positive effect on jobs and the local economy.** Many of our facilities, activities and events are open to the wider community.
Enterprise
While our head is full of ambition, our feet are planted in the world around us. We pride ourselves on being as enterprising as we are innovative and nurture those qualities in our students, with mentorship, support and start-up funding on offer through the Anglia Ruskin Enterprise Academy.
Enthusiasm
Our sheer can-do attitude sets us apart from others. We find that enthusiasm is infectious, letting the results speak for themselves and being the only UK university to be named a global ‘rising star’.