A UNIVERSITY is launching a range of courses to attract hundreds of extra students.

From next month, Teesside University will run additional full-time courses as well as courses in computing, business, science, performing arts, health and law.

For the first time, students will be able to combine their studies of media and music technology or select other subjects in major/minor combinations.

A crime scene science course will offer them a springboard to a career in crime scene investigation, and they could benefit from £1,000 bursaries on an engineering course.

A university spokesman said: "We are looking to try and add several hundred full-time places.

"We have about 8,000 full-time and 8,000 part-time students.

"These new courses will be recruiting through clearing."

While some of the courses featured in the latest prospectus are almost full, others are so new they have not yet been advertised.

The spokesman said the trend among school leavers is to wait until the last minute before choosing courses.