Key Facts and Figures

Almost 40% of our full time research and teaching staff are non-British and we recruit our staff from over 60 countries. Lancaster is a welcoming community that includes students from 142 countries.

Students as full time equivalents

Home-EU
Overseas
Full-timePart-timeFull-timePart-timeTotal
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences 3,165 260 633 33 4,090
Faculty of Health and Medicine 799 77 63 34 972
Faculty of Science and Technology 3,367 90 460 7 3,924
Management School 2,287 50 1,967 13 4,317
Total 9,618 476 3,124 87 13,304

Overseas partnership students

Sunway University 5,399
BJTU 1,391
Ghana 484
Other 47
Total 7,321

Staff as full time equivalents

PercentageFTE
Academic 44% 1,323
Professional Services 56% 1,704

Nationality of academic staff

PercentageFTE
UK 62% 826
Overseas 38% 497

Staff gender - academic

PercentageFTE
Female 37% 492
Male 63% 831

Staff gender - non-academic

PercentageFTE
Female 62% 1,057
Male 38% 647