Surrey And Reading Law

Accepted into both. Why have the rankings declined so much for these two universities.

A few years ago I believe they were much higher in the rankings but now fall in at #39 (reading) and #41 (Surrey)

Hi there!

Happy to hear you received offers!

You'll find rankings highly depend on which parameters are used, in addition to which organisation is doing the ranking. Student satisfaction is a big factor when ranking universities, because we're the ones paying after all, and we expect a certain quality for our money. Surrey has performed consistently well for student satisfaction in the past years.

I clicked the first three links that appeared when googling "uk uni rankings", and Surrey is at #13 (The Complete University Guide), #21 (The Guardian), and #21 (SI-UK) in the UK respectively.

Hope this helps!

Marko
Accounting and Finance BSc

Edit: Apologies! I later realised you were referring to subject-specific rankings. In that case, I stand by my above reply in that I recommend that you look at overall rankings as well. When I was applying to my course, I found subject-specific rankings to be quite volatile year-on-year because there are so many universities, and parameters used between different leaderboards vary, so I took overall rankings into account. However, I made my final decision not based on rankings, but based on how the uni treated me when I would communicate with their different departments, offer-holder events, and factored in things like modules offered, campus location, links to London, if I could see myself living in the town, etc. I made sure I got a feel for the university as a whole. It turned out well in the end