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Another university league table

Here’s yet another university league table. This is based on the same methodology as https://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/showthread.php?t=6176018 except the REF2014 research score has been replaced with more current HESA data (see note below). Throwing it out there because I’m a bit bored at the moment and I’ve become a tad obsessed with this stuff - not because I love league tables but because I don’t (if that makes any sense?!).

1 Cambridge 98.7%
2 Oxford 95.8%
3 Imperial College London 92.3%
4 University College London 83.4%
5 St Andrews 82.5%
6 Edinburgh 80.4%

=7
Durham 79.4%
Glasgow 79.0%
Bristol 79.0%

10 Manchester 78.0%

=11
Dundee 77.5%
Bath 77.5%
Warwick 77.3%
Aberdeen 77.3%
King's College London 77.0%

=16
Exeter 76.5%
Leeds 76.3%
Sheffield 76.3%
Southampton 76.0%
London School of Economics 76.0%

=21
Birmingham 75.3%
Nottingham 75.3%
Newcastle 75.3%
York 75.0%
Loughborough 75.0%

=26
Lancaster 74.8%
Strathclyde 74.7%
Heriot-Watt 74.4%
Queen's, Belfast 73.9%
Cardiff 73.8%
Surrey 73.7%
St George's, University of London 73.3%
Stirling 73.3%
Liverpool 73.0%

=35
Queen Mary, University of London 72.8%
East Anglia (UEA) 72.1%


Note:
The research score is based on the total income from funding body grants, research grants and contracts (2017-18 accounts data taken from the HESA website, 2019). This has been divided by the total number of students (also HESA data), expressed as a score between 2.50 and 5.00, and then each university’s score is expressed as a percentage of the maximum score. The student satisfaction and entry standard scores have not changed from https://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/showthread.php?t=6176018.

Data source: The Complete University Guide (University League Table 2020), HESA (2019).
(edited 4 years ago)
Student satisfaction scores are not particularly reliable. They fluctuate widely dependent on how students mark their university. This can be affected by issues like the race issue in Exeter or the sexism case elsewhere. Also students have different expectations and it tends to be that those in higher rated universities expect higher standards than those in lower universities hence places like Imperial come out badly in student satisfaction rates. Also subject rankings fluctuate more as the numbers are lower and a small amount of dissatisfied can have a disproportionate effect.

The research findings do not have any effect on undergraduate students.
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Imperial beats UCL so this ranking is quality :cool:
I don't agree that research has no impact on university quality for undergraduates. The main point about being an undergraduate at university is that you're taught by experts who are at the forefront of their field.
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