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Salford, England, United Kingdom
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The University of Salford is a public university in Salford, Greater Manchester, in the north west of England. It received its Royal Charter on 10 February 1967 and traces its roots to the Pendleton Mechanics Institute of 1850 and the Salford Working Men's College of 1858. Its identity is industry-facing and practice-based: teaching and research are organised around work-ready skills, partnerships with business and public services, and impact in the Salford and Greater Manchester city region. The university community numbers over 23,000 students, 2,500 staff and 170,000 alumni.
Teaching takes place across three campuses. Peel Park, on The Crescent beside Peel Park and its river, is the main campus and lies minutes from Manchester city centre, with its own railway station on campus. Frederick Road, a short walk away, is the base for many health courses, and MediaCity at Salford Quays sits alongside the BBC, ITV and over 250 digital and media businesses. A free bus links Peel Park and MediaCity.
Academic provision is organised into four schools:
The International Foundation Centre and University English Language Teaching Centre run the International Foundation Year and a British Council accredited Pre-sessional English course.
Specialist facilities include the £55m New Adelphi building for music, performance, art, design and architecture; the Energy House Labs; the Northern Engineering and Robotics Innovation Centre (NERIC); acoustics laboratories with over six decades of research behind them; healthcare simulation suites, prosthetics and orthotics labs, gait analysis and podiatry clinics; and SILKS law clinics offering free legal advice to the community. The university leads the Greater Manchester Institute of Technology partnership, with a flagship building on campus.
Student life centres on the independent Salford Students' Union, with over 50 student-led societies and Shock Radio, the askUS student support service, the sports centre with a 25-metre pool, and the Peel Park Quarter residence for first-year undergraduates. International students come from around the world, supported by the international office, approved education consultants and a country-by-country guide to entry qualifications. The university is an owner-member of the Northern Consortium of UK universities (NCUK) and has been an exempt charity since May 1967.
For UK undergraduates in England and Wales the tuition fee cap is £9,790 for 2026/27 and £10,050 for 2027/28; tuition fee loans are available from the Student Loans Company. EU students pay the international rate, while Irish nationals living in the UK or Ireland pay the UK rate. International full-time courses starting in 2027-28 cost from £16,920 to £22,140 a year depending on course and level. Home postgraduate research fees for 2026/27 are £5,238 full-time and £2,619 part-time; international full-time research fees for 2026/27 range from £17,700 (Arts, Media and Creative Technology) to £19,240 (Science, Engineering and Environment). Home master's students may be eligible for a government postgraduate loan of up to £13,206 for courses starting after August 2026.
Healthcare students on pre-registration courses may also be eligible for the NHS Learning Support Fund.
These scholarships are awarded automatically on assessment of the application, with no separate form; the offer must be accepted and the deposit paid by the stated deadline, and only one scholarship (the highest value) can be held. Partnership awards include British Council GREAT Scholarships (India and Vietnam), NCUK scholarships, Salford/EATL Data Science and Salford/International Nursing College scholarships for students from Bangladesh, and Chevening and Commonwealth scholarships. International scholarships
A 3% prompt payment discount applies when fees are paid in full at or before enrolment, and Salford graduates can receive a 20% loyalty discount on further study.
The Doctoral School offers 10 PhD widening participation scholarships for UK candidates and 15 Research Masters scholarships covering UK fees for Salford graduates, plus a conference fund of up to £1,000. Donor-funded scholarships and bursaries for 2026-2027 are open to full-time home fee-paying students through short application forms. Undergraduate fees and funding | Donor-funded scholarships
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View scholarships for University of Salford →Most full-time undergraduate applications are made through UCAS using institution code name SALF and institution code S03 (leave the campus code blank). Accepted qualifications range from A and AS levels and BTEC awards to the International Baccalaureate; the typical offer for each course is set on its course page. Part-time courses, the BSc (Hons) Nursing Studies (top-up), single CPD modules, degree apprenticeships, the International Foundation Year and Pre-sessional English are applied for directly to the university. Some courses require interviews or portfolios, and professional courses may carry GCSE or Level 2 requirements set by regulatory bodies.
Home fee-paying applicants living in the UK who apply via UCAS for a full-time undergraduate degree or a course with a foundation year are automatically considered for a lower contextual offer if they are in Group 1 of either Multiple Equality Measure (MEM1 or MEM2) in the UCAS Modernised Contextual Data Service, are care experienced, or are seeking sanctuary. Applicants taking three A levels, a BTEC Extended Diploma or an A level/BTEC combination are considered. Eligibility does not guarantee an offer.
International applicants apply through UCAS (institution code S03). Country pages set out the qualifications accepted from each country and list approved education consultants. Applicants without the qualifications for direct entry can take the on-campus International Foundation Year, which leads to over 80 undergraduate degrees. For September 2026, undergraduate conditions had to be met by 21 August 2026, with induction from 7 September and teaching from 14 September; International Foundation Year applications closed on 1 July 2026.
Online IELTS and the IELTS One Skill Retake are not accepted, and the Oxford ELLT is not accepted from 9 October 2026. Student Route visa applicants may need a Secure English Language Test (SELT). A British Council accredited Pre-sessional English course is open to students with UKVI IELTS 4.0 or above.
Most postgraduate taught applications use the online application form, which can be saved and completed later; MA Social Work and MArch Architecture are applied for through UCAS. Supporting documents usually include a reference, transcripts or certificates and, where English is not the first language, evidence of English proficiency. Applicants with alternative qualifications or significant experience may apply through accreditation of prior experiential learning (APEL). International places are confirmed on a first-come, first-served basis once academic conditions are met and the deposit is paid; for January 2027 entry, CAS documents are due by 30 November 2026, with induction from 11 January 2027.
Research degrees include the MSc by Research, MPhil, PhD, DProf and DBA. Applications are built around a research proposal; a full-time PhD takes three years and a part-time PhD five years.
Self-funded international students on the International Foundation Year, undergraduate or postgraduate programmes pay a £5,500 tuition fee deposit before an unconditional offer is issued and the CAS process starts; the deposit is deducted from tuition fees. A CAS can be requested once an offer is unconditional, followed by the Student Visa application.
Admissions enquiries: [email protected], applications: [email protected], +44 (0)161 295 4545.
Sport: the sports centre on Peel Park has five fitness suite rooms, a 25-metre, five-lane pool with sauna and spa, a dance studio, over 30 fitness classes a week, a six-court sports hall, two squash courts and a health hub with a student-run sports injury clinic; a floodlit 3G pitch and two grass pitches are at the David Lewis playing fields.
Residences: Peel Park Quarter, run with Campus Living Villages, offers en-suite rooms in flats of 4 to 10 for first-year undergraduates, staffed 24/7 with gym, cinema room and games room, and bills and wifi included (deposit £200). John Lester and Eddie Colman Courts, also managed by Campus Living Villages near Frederick Road, offer single rooms in flats of two to four and are an option for postgraduates.
Research and teaching facilities also include Energy House Labs, NERIC, acoustics laboratories, Bodmer biomedical labs, Joule Physics Laboratories, the Centre for Medical Imaging, prosthetics and orthotics labs, gait analysis clinics, healthcare simulation suites, petroleum and gas labs, the Salford Advanced Laboratory for Testing and Materials, the Maker Space and SILKS law clinics. A new Acoustics Building and the Thrive Health and Wellbeing Centre are under development as part of the Campus Connectivity Plan.
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