University of Greater Manchester
Bolton · Higher Education Institution
The sponsor holds Student Sponsor status with a track record of compliance — the standard standing for an established provider.
University in Bolton, Greater Manchester, UK
- Founded:
- 1982
Background from Wikidata and Wikipedia, not part of the register record. Sources and corrections →
The Home Office does not publish this sponsor’s visa refusal rate, enrolment rate or course completion rate. Those go to the sponsor in a letter; only the resulting standing reaches the register, and nothing on this page is derived from them. What a sponsor has to hit →
OfS quality assessment
Retrieved 2026-08-13Following consideration of the assessment report, we found that the University of Bolton had breached our requirements for resources, support and student engagement (condition B2). We believe that the actions that the university is taking will address the concerns, if implemented effectively. We will continue to monitor the institution.
OfS decision: breach of condition B2
Assessment report →Regulatory case report →
The Office for Students assesses individual providers only where it decides to. This is separate from the Home Office register above, and from the compliance flag it carries.
Published evidence
At a glance
A reading aid, not a ranking. Each measure keeps its own source and population.
These figures are not all from the same year, and no source publishes them together. students 2024/25, outcomes 2016–2019, survey 2026, TEF 2023. A card that looks worse than another may simply be older. Detailed cohorts, definitions, benchmarks and caveats appear in the sections below.
Home Office register record
Snapshot 7 Sept 2026- Sponsor name
- University of Greater Manchester
- Status
- Student Sponsor - Track Record
- Routes
- Student
- Immigration compliance
- No entry recorded
- Town / city
- Bolton
- Additional locations
- —
- Sponsor type
- Higher Education Institution (HEI)
Read directly from the Register of Licensed Student Sponsors, snapshot of 7 Sept 2026. The Home Office does not publish per-sponsor visa refusal, enrolment or completion figures.
Office for Students record
- UKPRN
- 10006841
- Registration category
- Approved (fee cap)
- University title
- Yes
- Degree-awarding powers
- ResearchAwarded 1995
- Fee limit
- Higher
- TEF 2023
- SilverStudent experience: Gold · Student outcomes: Bronze
- Specific conditions
- B3https://www.officeforstudents.org.uk/media/3fa7c13f-b0cc-454c-816e-d9e357a0e845/university-of-bolton-specific-ongoing-conditions-of-registration.pdf
- Monetary penalty
- None recorded
- Registration suspended
- None recorded
Source: OfS Register, retrieved 3 Sept 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Standing over time
34 snapshotsThis provider’s standing at every register snapshot we hold, oldest to newest. Gaps mean the provider was not listed on that date.
Recorded register changes
1 recordedChanges are derived by comparing register snapshots. Dates are observation dates — the change occurred at some point in the interval shown, not necessarily on the later date. Check this entry against the live Register of licensed sponsors: students, or against an archived copy in the UK Government Web Archive.