Key Facts and Figures

Almost 40% of our full time research and teaching staff are non-British and we recruit our staff from over sixty countries. Lancaster is a welcoming community that includes students from 142 countries.


Student as full time equivalents

Home-EU
Overseas
Full-timePart-timeFull-timePart-timeTotal
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences 2,815 248 635 35 3,749
Faculty of Health and Medicine 755 136 77 42 1,015
Faculty of Science and Technology 2,966 101 494 7 3,568
Management School 2,025 69 1,958 18 4,217
Total 8,562 555 3,163 102 12,549

Overseas partnership students

COMSATS 173
Goenka 129
Sunway University 3,896
Ghana 522
BJTU 505
Total 5,225

Staff as full time equivalents

PercentageFTE
Academic 44% 1,248
Non-academic 56% 1,594

Nationality of academic staff

PercentageFTE
UK 61% 757
Overseas 39% 491

Staff gender - academic

PercentageFTE
Female 36% 455
Male 64% 793

Staff gender - non-academic

PercentageFTE
Female 62% 992
Male 38% 602