With a student body of around 11,000 you will get the best of all worlds at Bolton. You will be based on a modern, compact campus where no-one feels anonymous and, with small teaching groups on many courses, you can be sure you are a name, not just a number. Bolton itself is a friendly, thriving town close to the big cities of Manchester and Liverpool.Our teaching quality has consistently won the highest ratings possible from the Government’s quality control agency and we have professional accreditation for more than 30 of our teaching programmes.There are currently 192 Academic staff members of whom 130 hold PhD degrees. This represents 67.7% of PhD holders amongst the Academic staff.Our strong industry links allow us to provide a large number of professionally accredited courses through partnerships that include several Chartered Institute organisations, the British Psychological Society and the Nursing and Midwifery Council. More than 30 of our courses are professionally accredited, reflecting the industry-needs focus of our courses’ content.