THE TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES UNIVERSITY OF THE YEAR

BATH IS THE TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES UNIVERSITY OF THE YEAR

OXFORD RANKS TOP IN THE LEAGUE TABLES

DURHAM IS SPORTS UNIVERSITY OF THE YEAR

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The University of Bath has been named The Times and The Sunday Times’ University of the Year, according to The Good University Guide 2023.

Ranking eighth in the overall league tables, up from ninth in 2021, Bath wins this year’s coveted University of the Year award on account of its strength across the board. As the fourth-highest institution for student satisfaction and fifth-highest for graduate prospects, it comes as no surprise that Bath has received record numbers of applicants in the 2021 and 2022 admissions cycles. Exeter was runner-up for University of the Year, having nearly doubled its enrolments over the past decade, while Birmingham, Oxford and Surrey were also shortlisted.

Oxford may have missed out on University of the Year, but it did top the league tables – its first No 1 position in 12 years. The prestigious university performed superbly across all academic measures and demonstrated by far the lowest student-to-staff ratio (10.5:1).

Durham has been named the Sports University of the Year. As third in the British University and Colleges Sport league for 2021-22, Durham’s collegiate structure encourages high participation rates throughout the university.

The new edition of The Times and The Sunday Times Good University Guide 2023, a free 96-page supplement, will be published this weekend in The Sunday Times (September 18). It provides the definitive rankings for UK universities and the most comprehensive overview of higher education in Britain. It includes profiles on 135 universities and the definitive UK university rankings, making use of the latest data published in the past two months. A fully searchable website with university profiles and 70 subject tables will be published at https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/good-university-guide-in-full-tp6dzs7wn today (September 16) for subscribers to The Times and The Sunday Times.

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National rank	University	Last year’s national rank	2022 National student survey teaching quality (%)	2022 National student survey student experience (%)	Graduate prospects (% in high-skilled jobs or graduate-level study)	Completion rate (%)
1	University of Oxford	2	n/a	n/a	91.6	99
2	University of St Andrews	1	84	80.5	86.9	95.9
3	University of Cambridge	3	n/a	n/a	92.6	99
4	London School of Economics and Political Science	5	74.5	73.3	89.1	96.7
5	Imperial College London	4	74.9	77.2	95.2	97.9
6	Durham University	6	74.9	70.8	87.3	97.2
7	University College London	7	73.8	73.8	86.4	94.8
8	University of Bath	9	76.7	79.7	90.9	96.2
9	University of Warwick	8	77	75.1	86.3	95.6
10	University of Edinburgh	13	68.6	67	84.6	94.3
11	Loughborough University	10	75.7	79.2	85.4	93.4
12	Lancaster University	11	77.6	76.6	82.6	94.1
13	University of Exeter	21	75.3	75.5	83.8	94.9
14	University of Glasgow	12	73.3	71.7	81.4	89.9
15	University of Bristol	14	71.2	69	84.7	95.9
16	University of Southampton	16	75.4	74.1	80.7	93.3
17	University of York	19	75.9	73.6	82	93.9
18	University of Strathclyde	17	76.7	75.1	83.8	91.1
19	University of Aberdeen	20	79.4	78.6	79.9	89.9
20=	University of Birmingham	25	71.3	70.4	84.2	95.4
20=	University of Sheffield	22	76.3	75	80.1	93.1

The Times and The Sunday Times Good University Guide 2023 provides students and their parents with an invaluable first reference point on the path to finding a university place. It contains full profiles of all universities. The academic league table is made up of nine indicators including student satisfaction with teaching quality and their wider student experience, research quality, graduate prospects, entrance qualifications held by new students, degree results achieved, student/staff ratios, service and facilities spend, and degree completion rates.

Expanded coverage with 70 subject tables and full interactive tables on all the league table components, and additional features, are available to Times and Sunday Times subscribers at https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/good-university-guide-in-full-tp6dzs7wn

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