have been classified as an International student for tuition fees purposes.

The tuition
fee for this course in the academic year 2013/2014 for International students will be
£13,000, and will remain the same for every year of study. The tuition fee stated is
only valid for 2013/2014 entry. All students are bound by the University's Ordinances
and Regulations on the payment of fees and the consequences of non-payment.

Please let me know whether you wish to accept this offer by logging in to
www.manchester.ac.uk/track using your University of Manchester User ID shown at
the top of this letter. Your password is your date of birth in the format DDMMYYYY.

General terms and conditions relating to this offer can be found in the attached PDF.

Please note that this is an academic offer of a place on the above programme and is
not an offer of funding. You must make separate arrangements for the payment of
fees and living costs.

A copy of our Accommodation Guide will be sent to you soon, and in the meantime
further information about fees, funding, living costs and accommodation can be found
at www.manchester.ac.uk/postgraduate.

If you have any queries relating to your offer, please do not hesitate to contact me,
and meanwhile we look forward to welcoming you to The University of Manchester.

Yours sincerely

Laura Dobson
Recruitment & Admissions
School of Environment & Development
Dear Bayes

Congratulations on your offer to study at the School of Environment and

Development of the University of Manchester.

Access to postgraduate programmes at the University of Manchester is highly selective,

and I hope you will take advantage of this opportunity by accepting the offer and
joining us in September for your programme of study.

The School of Environment and Development (SED) encompasses the disciplines of

Architecture, Planning and Landscape, Geography, and the subjects represented within
the Institute for Development Policy and Management (IDPM). SED is a new multi-
disciplinary School with exciting opportunities to work across traditional disciplinary
boundaries. The School has over 80 academic staff (within a total staff complement of
125) and over 800 undergraduates and 600 postgraduate students, of whom 100 are
research students.

SED is committed to providing high quality postgraduate training and education

based on excellence in academic and applied research. The international quality of the
School's activities in both teaching and research has been validated by external
assessment, and confirms SED’s position as one of the UK's leading university-based
centres for environment and development studies.

The School is particularly delighted with the results of the recent 2008 Research
Assessment Exercise (RAE), in which all areas of our research have shown significant
growth and increased quality. The School entered 77 staff and the RAE assessed two
thirds of their research activity to be at the level of international excellence, with 20%
judged to be world leading.

Research at IDPM contributed to the University of Manchester being ranked the

number one UK university in the area of Development Studies based upon ’research
power’. IDPM’s research was assessed as ‘world-class’, and in significant areas is
viewed as ‘world-leading’. This means that not only is IDPM contributing at a global
level to debates about poverty and development, but in many areas is setting the
pace. With the government having previously awarded its highest possible rating for
the quality of IDPM’s postgraduate teaching, IDPM has now achieved national
recognition as the UK’s leading centre for development research and teaching.

SED hosts a number of elite, externally funded research centres. Amongst these is
the Brooks World Poverty Institute (BWPI), a cross-faculty institution devoted to
research on the different dimensions of poverty, chaired by Nobel Prize winner
Professor Joseph E. Stiglitz. In addition to this, the UK Department for International
Development (DFID) funds another important centre for research on poverty, the
Chronic Poverty Research Centre (CPRC). Other key research centres hosted by the
School include the Centre for Urban Policy Studies (CUPS), the Centre for Urban
Regional Ecology (CURE), the Global Urban Research Centre (GURC), the Centre for
Development Informatics (CDI), the Centre for Organisational Development (COD),
and the Manchester Architecture Research Centre (MARC).

2009 also saw the launch of the SED-led research initiative Eco Cities: The Bruntwood
Initiative for Sustainable Cities at the University of Manchester. Eco Cities is a joint
initiative between the University of Manchester and commercial property provider
Bruntwood, which draws on the expertise from across the University, including the
Manchester Architecture Research Centre, the Centre for Urban Regional Ecology and
the Brooks World Poverty Institute. The project seeks to provide a climate change
adaptation blueprint for the Manchester city region by the end of 2011.
I believe you will you find the School of Environment and Development offers
unrivalled opportunities to develop as a postgraduate student, both because of the
quality of our teaching and research and the facilities we and the University offer, and
because of the opportunities to work in an environment that encourages innovative
and cross-disciplinary initiatives. The creation of the University of Manchester in
October 2004, combining the Victoria University of Manchester and UMIST with an
unprecedented £300 million capital programme to enhance research and teaching
facilities, has provided further opportunities for strengthening and developing the
training of postgraduate students.

International students at the University of Manchester will also be in the position to

take advantage of the University’s Accommodation Guarantee for International
Students, whereby international students are guaranteed University managed
accommodation for the duration of their programme of study.

You will find more information on accommodation facilities and the guarantee
at:

www.accommodation.manchester.ac.uk

I look forward to welcoming you to Manchester in September. Your programme

director will be in contact shortly with more information about your programme of
study.

I wish you every success in your study and your future career.

With regards,

Prof. Simon Guy

Head of School
School of Environment and Development