Industry links
The University of Bath is one of the UK’s leading universities, with an international reputation for research and teaching at the highest academic standard. It has a small, friendly campus near the UNESCO World Heritage city of Bath.
We have a distinctive approach that emphasises the education of professional practitioners and the promotion of original inquiry, as well as innovation in partnership with business, the professions, public services and the voluntary sector.
In the annual university league tables in 2007, the University was ranked top ten in the: The Daily Telegraph, The Sunday Times and The Guardian.
The University has had close links with industry since it began, and the majority of its courses have a placement year in which students work in one of more than 2,500 public, private and voluntary sector organisations.
It is part of the SETsquared Partnership with the universities of Bristol, Southampton and Surrey. The collaboration, the largest of its kind in the UK, was established to encourage enterprise and to work more effectively with industry.
The Bath Ventures Innovation Centre provides practical support and expertise to local technology enterprises, and companies that emerge from the University’s student and academic research base.
For more information please email Simon Bond, Director of Incubation and Networks or call +44 (0) 1225 388682.