ASUC Competitors

At London Metropolitan University we place students at the centre of everything we do. We’re constantly reviewing our courses to respond to the demands of the job market and give you a diverse choice. We offer most of our courses on both a full-time and part-time basis, and we’re committed to providing you with the best possible support and resources. Our dedicated careers and employability team will support and advise you both during and after your studies. We run a mentoring scheme, which can put you in touch with a professional from your chosen sector, as well as a graduate internship scheme, which offers around 30 paid internships each year. Many courses include work placement modules that count towards your final degree and many are accredited by professional bodies, which will give your qualification extra weight. Our facilities include a £30 million Science Centre, a state-of-the-art mock courtroom and newsroom, specialist art and design workshops, and some of London’s most advanced computer labs. Continued investment in IT facilities sees the installation of new PCs, for example in our Holloway Road Learning Centre, which also hosts a world-renowned research library. We’re dedicated to supporting you throughout your studies. Our Student Services department is accredited by Matrix and has been awarded the Buttle Quality Mark for Care Leavers. We’re currently investing millions of pounds in creating a single campus in Islington, which is developing a more connected community. We have strong links with the local area and are committed to environmental sustainability, installing LED lights, solar panels and energy-efficient air conditioning. As a result of this effort we’ve been named England’s number-one university for carbon reduction.

The Southbank Centre is the UK’s largest arts centre and the heart of London’s cultural life. We exist to present great cultural experiences that bring people together and we achieve this by providing the space for artists to create and present their best work and by creating a place where as many people as possible can come together to experience bold, unusual and eye-opening work. We want to take people out of the everyday, every day. Occupying a prominent riverside location that sits in the midst of London’s most vibrant cultural quarter on the South Bank of the Thames, our site has an extraordinary creative and architectural history stretching back to the 1951 Festival of Britain. The Southbank Centre is made up of the Royal Festival Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Purcell Room and Hayward Gallery as well as being home to the National Poetry Library and the Arts Council Collection. It is also home to six Resident Orchestras (Aurora Orchestra, Chineke! Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, London Sinfonietta, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and Philharmonia Orchestra).

Students’ Union UCL is an organisation that exists to make more happen. We are the representative body for University College London’s (UCL) students, one of the most diverse student communities in the world. UCL students have the potential to do anything, and the Union plays an essential role in helping them to achieve things they may have never thought possible. As a charity we employ over 80 career staff and deliver a wide range of services and representative functions for students. We work in partnership with UCL towards a fantastic experience for all our 48,000 students and to ensure that university life enables them to develop the skills, experience and confidence to become the leaders of the future. Our Finance team works to ensure that the Students’ Union is a financially sustainable and growing organisation. It aims to support the growth of income and efficient use of resources to ensure departments and student groups are well resourced and able to deliver on our mission. The team plays an essential role in our aim to become one of the best students’ unions in the UK and the world, and the best possible students’ union for our 48,000+ members.