Average full economic cost (to the university) of an undergraduate degree in engineering

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Dear City University London,

Please provide the average full economic cost (to the university) of an undergraduate degree in engineering at the University. Please include all costs directly and indirectly associated with the activity e.g. including staff pension costs and IT costs. Please include all costs that can be reasonably attributed to the degree using the data that you have

Please break down your answer in two ways (a) by the seven UCAS classifications of engineering degrees (b) by cost type (e.g. payroll, IT, equipment etc) please break this information down into its natural and principal cost categories giving as much detail as is feasible.

FYI – UCAS classify engineering degrees into seven categories as follows
1. General engineering
2. Civil engineering
3. Mechanical engineering
4. Aerospace engineering
5. Electronic and electrical engineering
6. Production and manufacturing engineering
7. Chemical, process and energy engineering

This is not a strange or unusual request but is merely requesting what is a key management metric i.e. the cost per degree. Since Universities are required to be run in a financially astute manner, this information should be routinely provided to university course leaders, and should be a key factor in the decision to continue or discontinue providing courses and in the setting of undergraduate fees.

If you do not have the complete information, please provide as much as possible.

Yours faithfully,

Dr Jim Partridge

Sesay, Saidu, City, University of London

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Dear Dr Jim Partridge,

Thank you for your request for information (see below) received
on 27/01/2017.

 

Your request is being dealt with under the terms of the Freedom of
Information Act 2000 and will be answered within twenty working days.

Please contact me if you have any queries, quoting reference number
2017/019.

 

Dear City University London,

 

Please provide the average full economic cost (to the university) of an
undergraduate degree in engineering at the University. Please include all
costs directly and indirectly associated with the activity e.g. including
staff pension costs and IT costs. Please include all costs that can be
reasonably attributed to the degree using the data that you have

 

Please break down your answer in two ways (a) by the seven UCAS
classifications of engineering degrees (b) by cost type (e.g. payroll, IT,
equipment etc) please break this information down into its natural and
principal cost categories giving as much detail as is feasible.

 

FYI – UCAS classify engineering degrees into seven categories as follows

1.            General engineering

2.            Civil engineering

3.            Mechanical engineering

4.            Aerospace engineering

5.            Electronic and electrical engineering

6.            Production and manufacturing engineering

7.            Chemical, process and energy engineering

 

This is not a strange or unusual request but is merely requesting what is
a key management metric i.e. the cost per degree. Since Universities are
required to be run in a financially astute manner, this information should
be routinely provided to university course leaders, and should be a key
factor in the decision to continue or discontinue providing courses and in
the setting of undergraduate fees.

 

If you do not have the complete information, please provide as much as
possible.

 

Yours faithfully,

 

Dr Jim Partridge

 

 

Yours Sincerely,

 

Saidu Sesay

Information Compliance Officer, IT

City, University of London

Northampton Square

London EC1V 0HB

T: +44 (0)20 7040 8224

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Dear Dr Jim Partridge,

 

Please find attached our response to your information request.

 

 

Yours Sincerely,

 

Saidu Sesay

Information Compliance Officer, IT

City, University of London

Northampton Square

London EC1V 0HB

T: +44 (0)20 7040 8224

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