Value for money
We spend听our income in order to transform our students鈥� lives through education, and, in doing this, to support the success of our city and region.
The breakdown below shows the costs that听we incur in order to achieve this:
- Academic departments, teaching and student facing support 鈥� includes all the teaching costs, and support based in our academic departments to our students, central student-support services, such as library and learning resources, IT help, a wide range of student support including disability support, financial advice, educational advice, extra academic support where needed, careers advice and employability projects.
- University support services - includes the departments that support the backbone of all the University's dealings with our students (IT, Academic Services, Finance, Human Resources etc)
- Estates and Facilities include all the costs involved with the Universities buildings and their maintenance.
Total university costs
The chart shows the total university costs.
| Cost | Percentage | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Academic, teaching and student support | 65% | 拢176.5尘 |
| Estates and facilities | 21.1% | 拢57.2尘 |
| Support services | 13.9% | 拢37.8尘 |
Academic, teaching and student support
The chart shows academic, teaching and student support costs.
| Cost | Description | Percentage | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| Teaching | Providing the taught learning experience | 63.2% | 拢111.6尘 |
| Research and enterprise | Delivering impact through our research and enterprise activities - both within BCU and in the wider world | 14.6% | 拢25.7尘 |
| Bursaries, scholarships and awards | Helping students achieve their full academic potential by providing additional financial support | 7.2% | 拢12.7尘 |
| Student accommodation | Investing in our student accommodation | 4.5% | 拢7.9尘 |
| Library and learning resources | Connecting students with physical books and digital resources to develop their study and research | 3.4% | 拢6尘 |
| Careers and employability | Supporting students' next steps as they put their education into practice | 2.7% | 拢4.8尘 |
| Student support services | Being their when students need additional disability, mental health, wellbeing and financial support | 2.6% | 拢4.6尘 |
| Academic services | Providing services throughout the student life-cycle, from enrolment to graduation. | 1.8% | 拢3.2尘 |
Support services
The chart shows support services costs.
| Cost | Description | Percentage | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| IT | Making sure students stay connected and have the technology they need throughout their learning journey | 34.7% | 拢13.1尘 |
| Finance and HR | Keeping our University financially secure and building a great staff team. | 25.6% | 拢9.7尘 |
| Student Recruitment, Marketing and Communications | From first contact with BCU to graduation and beyond - opening up access to higher education, supporting applicants and keeping our community engaged and up-to-date. | 22.5% | 拢8.5尘 |
| Other support services | Other support costs, from the University legal team to our leadership and governance. | 17.2% | 拢6.5尘 |
Estates and facilities
The chart shows support estates and facilities costs.
| Cost | Description | Percentage | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| Depreciation | Annual cost of capital assets such as properties and IT equipment. | 34.4% | 拢19.7尘 |
| Rent and rates | Costs for provision of our campus including academic and research space and offices for professional services staff. | 19.8% | 拢11.3尘 |
| Covid costs | The costs the University has incurred during the pandemic to provide a safe environment for students and staff. | 14% | 拢8.0尘 |
| Other estates costs | The other costs to keep the campus services running as well as possible. | 11.5% | 拢6.6尘 |
| Building maintenance | Costs for maintaining our campus. | 8.7% | 拢5.0尘 |
| Energy costs | Costs of heating and running our campus. | 7.2% | 拢4.1尘 |
| Security | Keeping our community safe across all our campuses and accommodation sites. | 4.4% | 拢2.5尘 |