Open University

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THE World Ranking: 601

Overview

Overview

The Open University (OU) was established in 1969 as the world’s first ‘open’ university. It is a distance learning university with an open entry policy, with nearly 170,000 students interacting online from home and another 23 million learners on the OU’s open platforms, OpenLearn and FutureLearn. The administrative centre of the university is located in Buckinghamshire, UK. The faculties available at the OU include Arts, Education and Language Studies, Health and Social Care, Law, Mathematics, Computing and Technology, Science, Social Science and Business. The OU’s modules are designed by multi-disciplinary course teams made up of academics, educational technologists and media specialists. The OU has a network of more than 5,000 tutors – the largest in the UK – who mark assignments, provide detailed written feedback and offer support to students by telephone, email, or computer conferencing.

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Rankings

Hotcourses Diversity Index (What is this?)

DIVERSITY INDEX
Source: HESA

159 International student nationalities at this university

FEEL AT HOME INDEX
Source: HESA

1.03% International students from India

Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2024
Source: THE

601

OVERALL SCORE

37%

TEACHING

17.7%

INTERNATIONAL OUTLOOK

63.6%

INDUSTRY INCOME

52.6%

RESEARCH

16.1%

CITATIONS

68.7%
Academic Ranking of World Universities 2023
Source: ARWU

701

Student life in numbers

COSTS PER YEAR
LIVING COSTS

12,63,424

AVERAGE PRIVATE RENT

8,45,862

AVERAGE TUITION FEE PER YEAR

UNDERGRADUATE

6,09,602

POSTGRADUATE

6,15,919

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