University League Table 2012

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Rank within Selection	CUG Rank		University Name	Entry Standards Entry Standards The average UCAS tariff score of new students entering the University. Click here to read more	Student Satisfaction Student Satisfaction A guide to how satisfied students are with the quality of teaching they receive. Maximum score: 5.00 Click here to read more	Research Assessment Research Assessment The average quality of the research undertaken in the University. Maximum score: 4.00 Click here to read more	Graduate Prospects Graduate Prospects A guide to the employability of graduates on completion of their courses at the University. Maximum score: 100.0 Click here to read more	Student-Staff Ratio Student-Staff Ratio The average staffing levels at the University. Click here to read more	Academic Services Spend Academic Services Spend A guide to how much the University spends on supporting services such as libraries and IT. Click here to read more	Facilities Spend Facilities Spend A guide to how much the University spends on supporting facilities such as the careers service, health and counselling services and sport facilities. Click here to read more	Good Honours Good Honours The percentage of graduates achieving a first or upper second class honours degree – the class of degree achieved can impact a graduate’s employment prospects. Maximum score: 100.0 Click here to read more	Degree Completion Degree Completion The proportion of students expected to successfully complete their studies and gain a degree from the University. Maximum score: 100.0 Click here to read more	Overall Score Overall Score The total score calculated by our independent and trusted methodology, comprising the four measures listed in the University League Table together with Teaching Standards, Employment Prospects, Good Honours, Staff–Student Ratio, Academic and Facilities Spend, Degree Completion and Green (listed in the University Profiles). Maximum score: 1000 Click here to read more
Rank within Selection	2012	2011	University Name
1	42	20	Buckingham	273	4.38		87.5	8.9	571	295	43.6	90.8	639
2	2	1	Oxford	536	4.18	2.96	85.0	10.8	2,768	293	91.2	97.9	992
3	1	2	Cambridge	559	4.15	2.98	85.5	11.7	2,013	690	88.3	98.7	1000
4	6	6	St Andrews	485	4.14	2.72	76.3	13.3	1,463	427	86.7	93.8	854
5	19	21	Loughborough	390	4.13	2.62	69.2	17.1	899	525	69.6	89.3	749
6	15	24	Exeter	439	4.12	2.62	70.3	19.0	1,094	471	82.8	96.4	768
7	23	22	Leicester	399	4.11	2.45	71.5	14.7	1,260	506	66.8	92.7	740
8	27	28	East Anglia	386	4.11	2.58	66.1	14.9	1,091	459	69.6	90.1	728
9	49	47	Aberystwyth	298	4.11	2.48	55.1	18.1	871	367	58.5	86.3	596
10	19	19	Sussex	380	4.10	2.61	69.3	16.1	1,001	355	82.7	91.7	749
11	12	10	York	437	4.07	2.78	68.2	14.9	1,203	527	75.6	95.4	790
12	21	26	Glasgow	408	4.04	2.59	72.1	14.5	1,264	599	73.7	86.9	748
13	44	43	Keele	310	4.02	2.41	67.5	14.5	753	368	61.6	90.2	619
14	56	53	Chichester	290	4.02	1.96	54.4	16.6	704	410	54.0	88.7	555
15	5	4	Durham	487	4.02	2.72	80.4	15.3	1,233	840	79.4	96.7	890
16	10	12	Bath	459	4.01	2.71	77.9	16.1	1,113	452	76.6	96.4	800
17	45	52	Stirling	305	4.00	2.41	66.2	19.3	846	257	63.6	86.6	613
18	62	56	Hull	309	4.00	2.37	64.6	20.1	835	321	52.0	83.4	534
19	109	110	Greenwich	215	4.00	1.90	54.7	23.3	795	339	46.7	79.8	413
20	78	63	Bangor	288	4.00	2.43	59.7	20.7	742	213	57.1	81.1	498
21	43	45	Dundee	353	3.99	2.54	68.9	14.3	1,039	286	68.5	81.9	628
22	24	29	Newcastle	410	3.98	2.63	75.4	15.3	1,202	423	75.5	94.2	738
23	34	38	Kent	329	3.98	2.60	67.3	14.4	821	378	61.9	88.6	684
24	36	39	Queen Mary	387	3.98	2.73	71.7	13.6	1,049	445	64.4	89.4	683
25	8	7	Warwick	480	3.98	2.80	72.5	14.1	1,456	430	80.7	95.5	822
26	26	25	Sheffield	426	3.98	2.72	73.6	14.9	1,081	357	73.1	94.1	729
27	33	30	Royal Holloway	381	3.98	2.67	63.1	15.7	964	402	68.8	92.3	693
28	98	88	Edge Hill	260	3.97	1.50	63.2	18.5	951	153	51.1	79.1	453
29	9	8	Lancaster	407	3.97	2.71	71.8	13.8	1,167	547	73.6	93.8	820
30	38	37	Essex	307	3.97	2.77	58.6	15.6	913	507	59.3	86.7	668
31	67	71	Lincoln	289	3.97	1.90	55.9	19.7	812	263	57.7	86.1	525
32	46	44	Aberdeen	332	3.96	2.57	69.4	15.8	977	261	67.4	80.7	604
33	7	9	University College London	477	3.96	2.84	81.1	9.7	1,743	220	83.2	94.9	842
34	90	105	Teesside	271	3.96	1.99	61.9	19.5	820	268	52.6	78.0	466
35	22	23	Birmingham	421	3.96	2.64	71.8	15.4	1,393	436	72.9	93.9	742
36	34	40	Reading	370	3.95	2.53	66.3	15.5	922	293	67.3	91.0	684
37	102	78	York St John	282	3.95	1.40	51.8	21.2	840	315	58.3	82.0	439
38	46	50	Oxford Brookes	314	3.95	2.20	62.0	18.1	749	449	67.1	88.5	604
39	17	18	Nottingham	428	3.95	2.67	77.9	14.2	1,037	424	73.0	94.5	753
40	58	67	Huddersfield	273	3.94	2.10	69.5	18.4	994	296	56.1	77.7	548
41	38	34	Heriot-Watt	335	3.94	2.48	68.8	19.1	945	529	68.0	85.4	668
42	81	89	Portsmouth	283	3.94	2.24	56.7	20.5	923	195	51.4	84.5	488
43	92	-	Trinity Saint David	251	3.93	2.11	59.7	18.7	719	392	48.8	79.8	463
44	65	72	Central Lancashire	260	3.92	1.96	59.6	18.4	1,010	491	52.8	80.9	530
45	81	65	De Montfort	259	3.92	2.32	52.8	17.5	773	247	49.8	81.8	488
46	105	100	Northampton	238	3.92	1.69	52.9	22.9	883	187	60.9	83.0	429
47	40	35	Strathclyde	394	3.91	2.45	73.0	18.0	1,226	298	76.2	83.3	665
48	11	16	Bristol	467	3.90	2.72	77.7	13.5	1,622	343	80.8	96.0	794
49	75	62	Gloucestershire	264	3.90	1.72	57.8	20.6	907	317	63.0	84.2	510
50	14	14	Southampton	427	3.90	2.72	70.8	13.6	1,347	459	75.3	93.1	779
51	16	13	King's College London	447	3.90	2.69	82.6	12.0	1,492	329	75.3	93.8	758
52	87	77	Queen Margaret	309	3.90	1.37	61.8	21.7	907	132	68.7	80.7	469
53	95	98	Abertay Dundee	252	3.90	1.83	57.7	19.4	921	349	51.0	74.3	460
54	112	-	West of Scotland	241	3.90	1.84	58.3	20.1	1,062	142	43.1	67.8	362
55	25	17	Aston	370	3.90	2.43	74.8	17.1	954	634	66.0	91.8	735
56	99	80	Staffordshire	241	3.90	1.62	60.7	21.7	749	349	52.4	79.5	452
57	91	93	Sunderland	246	3.89	1.86	54.8	15.8	637	362	49.8	78.6	465
58	51	51	Robert Gordon	295	3.89	2.06	76.7	19.0	939	302	60.2	82.2	575
59	80	81	Chester	273	3.89	1.74	63.4	17.2	696	259	57.9	79.2	489
60	106	102	Worcester	271	3.89	1.54	60.8	21.9	710	126	54.4	84.3	421
61	48	41	Hertfordshire	244	3.89	2.40	59.7	18.5	650	822	62.1	83.9	597
62	68	59	UWIC, Cardiff	267	3.88	1.88	55.3	20.7	846	419	55.3	84.7	524
63	60	64	Northumbria	300	3.88	2.15	68.0	20.3	853	288	58.6	81.8	539
64	37	41	Cardiff	406	3.88	2.69	73.6	15.0	1,040	281	68.5	93.0	672
65	89	89	University of Wales, Newport	252	3.88	2.42	54.5	22.5	592	420	49.3	79.5	467
66	83	86	Glamorgan	279	3.88	2.04	54.3	20.2	898	344	57.6	74.4	485
67	54	60	Swansea	314	3.88	2.43	60.3	16.5	826	288	57.7	89.3	559
68	114	112	Bolton	222	3.88	1.75	45.4	20.4	367	223	45.7	66.2	301
69	28	33	Surrey	388	3.87	2.58	76.4	19.0	1,105	457	66.0	91.5	715
70	76	79	Glasgow Caledonian	302	3.87	2.01	57.3	20.9	1,025	156	68.4	79.4	504
71	41	47	City	361	3.87	2.48	70.6	17.6	1,105	382	64.5	88.0	646
72	70	76	Winchester	280	3.87	2.16	54.0	17.7	611	285	60.5	83.9	519
73	111	111	Southampton Solent	266	3.87	1.49	46.2	21.5	697	345	42.7	74.3	384
74	73	61	Bradford	268	3.87	2.34	69.4	17.5	857	314	57.5	78.5	513
75	32	27	Leeds	408	3.87	2.72	65.8	14.9	855	483	76.7	92.1	702
76	31	35	Queen's, Belfast	362	3.87	2.56	69.4	14.8	1,174	610	71.8	85.2	710
77	104	92	Glyndwr	231	3.87	1.69	65.5	22.5	1,006	396	49.4	76.1	430
78	4	5	London School of Economics	513	3.86	2.96	84.1	11.8	1,905	376	79.0	95.7	928
79	30	32	Liverpool	401	3.86	2.54	70.3	13.2	1,575	352	71.5	90.8	712
80	108	104	Derby	250	3.86	1.96	52.3	20.5	1,053	234	50.1	73.1	414
81	68	73	Brighton	290	3.85	2.37	55.5	18.8	625	315	61.4	82.5	524
82	18	15	SOAS	423	3.85	2.60	68.7	11.1	1,593	222	75.0	86.9	751
83	85	83	Bath Spa	293	3.85	1.89	46.5	21.1	546	222	69.0	89.1	481
84	3	3	Imperial College London	519	3.84	2.94	86.7	10.9	3,089	681	76.2	91.2	940
85	52	54	Ulster	266	3.84	2.48	53.9	17.0	1,008	404	60.4	84.4	572
86	57	57	Goldsmiths College	327	3.84	2.58	53.8	17.6	680	189	66.5	82.8	551
87	71	97	Middlesex	207	3.83	2.18	57.8	21.0	1,640	446	55.8	72.4	517
88	116	114	London South Bank	201	3.83	2.24	49.3	23.3	841	174	33.9	76.1	295
89	61	68	West of England, Bristol	278	3.83	2.20	61.4	20.7	776	414	62.2	82.1	538
90	84	74	Edinburgh Napier	296	3.83	1.83	69.3	21.6	879	188	61.3	75.5	484
91	13	11	Edinburgh	442	3.83	2.75	72.4	14.4	1,713	449	81.3	92.5	782
92	53	65	Plymouth	297	3.82	2.18	64.3	16.4	850	326	61.4	84.9	560
93	97	96	Salford	280	3.82	2.36	55.1	23.8	664	267	55.3	86.4	459
94	62	68	Sheffield Hallam	289	3.82	2.05	61.8	19.8	744	239	61.6	84.0	534
95	88	84	Kingston	243	3.82	2.04	52.3	19.9	724	358	61.9	80.4	468
96	100	106	Canterbury Christ Church	247	3.82	1.79	63.3	18.6	692	227	54.5	84.4	447
97	55	49	Nottingham Trent	287	3.81	2.16	60.6	19.7	810	500	54.8	84.1	557
98	72	75	Coventry	298	3.81	1.85	59.9	15.7	747	303	61.4	77.7	514
99	103	101	Bedfordshire	187	3.79	2.09	61.2	10.7	477	572	44.4	76.2	438
100	62	55	Bournemouth	297	3.79	2.18	61.1	23.6	986	210	60.9	87.1	534
101	101	102	Liverpool John Moores	263	3.78	2.15	50.5	20.9	892	227	59.2	80.8	442
102	95	85	Leeds Metropolitan	267	3.78	2.05	55.5	20.6	611	340	52.9	82.6	460
103	73	87	Roehampton	259	3.77	2.20	59.9	18.8	1,069	253	54.7	82.1	513
104	50	46	Brunel	325	3.76	2.32	59.3	20.2	919	550	65.7	87.8	594
105	66	58	Birmingham City	263	3.76	2.31	67.7	20.9	846	571	53.7	78.7	526
106	29	31	Manchester	422	3.75	2.82	70.4	15.4	1,219	456	70.6	93.6	714
107	86	81	Cumbria	263	3.75	1.23	66.2	15.3	1,078	246	55.8	84.8	474
108	113	113	East London	200	3.75	2.24	48.6	23.3	719	246	44.4	74.5	335
109	93	89	Manchester Metropolitan	271	3.74	2.16	57.1	20.6	809	276	57.0	78.7	462
110	110	106	Anglia Ruskin	254	3.71	2.07	55.5	22.7	745	198	56.9	82.4	412
111	77	94	Westminster	273	3.70	2.23	55.1	17.1	835	254	56.1	79.6	502
112	107	108	Buckinghamshire New	212	3.69	1.67	48.8	22.3	671	636	49.3	81.8	416
113	93	95	West London	220	3.68	1.67	52.8	14.2	1,194	397	50.2	72.4	462
114	79	109	University for the Creative Arts	269	3.60	1.90	50.8	21.6	1,179	343	53.3	85.2	494
115	115	115	London Metropolitan	221	3.59	1.84	45.5	19.7	739	150	49.8	68.2	296
116	59	70	University of the Arts, London	276	3.56	2.49	53.1	20.2	909	164	64.8	89.0	545

Please note that some Universities have missing data. Where the table is ranked by a single measure, the institutions with no data for that measure appear at the bottom.

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Maximum scores:
Student Satisfaction	5.00	Facilities spend	N/A
Research Assessment	4.00	Good Honours	100.0
Entry Standards	N/A	Graduate Prospects	100.0
Student Staff Ratio	N/A	Completion	100.0
Academic Services Spend	N/A	Overall Score	1000.0

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