Each year UK university rankings are published, focusing on teaching, research, among other factors. With millions of students graduating, undertaking research and publishing scientific papers annually from universities in the United Kingdom, these rankings play an important role in affirming the quality of the learning process. Times Higher Education used 13 carefully calibrated performance indicators to provide the most comprehensive and balanced comparisons, trusted by students, academics, university leaders, industry and governments.
The performance indicators are grouped into five areas:
- Teaching (the learning environment)
- Reputation survey
- Staff-to-student ratio
- Doctorate-to-bachelor’s ratio
- Doctorates-awarded-to-academic-staff ratio
- Institutional income
- Research (volume, income and reputation)
- Reputation survey
- Research income
- Research productivity
- Citations (research influence)
- International outlook (staff, students and research)
- Proportion of international students
- Proportion of international staff
- International collaboration
- Industry income (knowledge transfer)
Here are the top 10 best universities in the United Kingdom.
Overall score: 95.6%
Teaching score: | 91.3% |
Research score: | 99.6% |
Citations score: | 98.0% |
Industry income score: | 68.7% |
International outlook score: | 96.4% |
2. University of Cambridge
Overall score: 94.0%
Teaching score: | 90.3% |
Research score: | 99.2% |
Citations score: | 95.6% |
Industry income score: | 52.1% |
International outlook score: | 95.7% |
3. Imperial College London
Overall score: 89.4%
Teaching score: | 82.3% |
Research score: | 88.2% |
Citations score: | 97.2% |
Industry income score: | 69.6% |
International outlook score: | 97.4% |
4. UCL
Overall score: 86.9%
Teaching score: | 76.6% |
Research score: | 89.4% |
Citations score: | 96.2% |
Industry income score: | 42.1% |
International outlook score: | 96.5% |
5. London School of Economics and Political Science
Overall score: 81.4%
Teaching score: | 68.5% |
Research score: | 82.5% |
Citations score: | 94.3% |
Industry income score: | 34.1% |
International outlook score: | 92.8% |
6. University of Edinburgh
Overall score: 79.4%
Teaching score: | 67.2% |
Research score: | 74.7% |
Citations score: | 96.0% |
Industry income score: | 38.7% |
International outlook score: | 94.6% |
7. King's College London
Overall score: 76.1%
Teaching score: | 57.3% |
Research score: | 72.4% |
Citations score: | 96.6% |
Industry income score: | 43.6% |
International outlook score: | 95.4% |
8. University of Manchester
Overall score: 70.9%
Teaching score: | 57.1% |
Research score: | 66.5% |
Citations score: | 85.6% |
Industry income score: | 49.2% |
International outlook score: | 91.7% |
9. University of Warwick
Overall score: 65.3%
Teaching score: | 46.7% |
Research score: | 53.8% |
Citations score: | 90.1% |
Industry income score: | 41.6% |
International outlook score: | 94.0% |
10. University of Bristol
Overall score: 63.0%
Teaching score: | 40.3% |
Research score: | 48.6% |
Citations score: | 95.6% |
Industry income score: | 39.8% |
International outlook score: | 88.2% |
