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Your support makes all the difference.Institution Final Rank Percentage of
staff entered
University of Oxford 6.68 91.3
University of Cambridge 6.49 98.0
London School of Economics 6.28 97.6
Imperial College, London 5.99 90.2
University College London 5.83 91.2
UMIST 5.61 86.7
University of Bath 5.56 89.5
University of Warwick 5.51 98.4
Lancaster University 5.5 91.6
University of York 5.47 91.3
University of Essex 5.45 89.2
University of Edinburgh 5.35 94.4
University of Sussex 5.35 87.8
University of Bristol 5.34 86.0
University of St Andrews 5.23 87.5
University of Wales, Cardiff 5.22 86.3
University of Durham 5.22 88.2
University of Sheffield 5.21 85.0
Cranfield University 5.2 46.5
University of Southampton 5.2 83.1
Royal Holloway, London 5.2 83.1
School of African and
Oriental Studies 5.19 88.5
King's College London 5.16 85.2
University of Manchester 5.12 91.3
University of Birmingham 5.10 86.4
University of Leeds 5.07 87.9
Goldsmiths College, London 5.04 81.1
University of East Anglia 4.97 88.2
University of Surrey 4.97 78.3
University of Nottingham 4.96 88.3
Loughborough University 4.92 81.9
Birkbeck College 4.87 92.8
University of Reading 4.85 88.1
University of Glasgow 4.79 76.4
Aston University 4.77 69.2
Heriot-Watt University 4.77 69.5
University of Liverpool 4.75 82.0
University of Salford 4.75 67.8
University of Newcastle
upon Tyne 4.72 86.7
University of Stirling 4.7 76.3
University of Leicester 4.68 89.6
Queen Mary and
Westfield College 4.6 82.8
University of Dundee 4.59 76.4
University of Strathclyde 4.58 73.9
Open University 4.57 49.6
University of Exeter 4.55 80.9
University of Wales, Swansea 4.54 73.8 The Queen's University
of Belfast 4.51 73.7
University of Bradford 4.44 88.4
Keele University 4.34 88.6
University of Kent at Canterbury 4.33 82.4
University College
of North Wales, Bangor 4.31 67.7
Brunel University 4.27 75.9
University of Aberdeen 4.21 91.5
University of Ulster 4.17 54.9
University of Hull 4.04 88.3
University of Wales,
Aberystwyth 3.99 86.8
City University 3.92 63.7
Sheffield Hallam University 3.56 27.6
University of Wales, Lampeter 3.55 93.4
University of Westminster 3.31 29.3
Nottingham Trent University 3.22 30.9
University of Greenwich 3.2 26.6
University of Hertfordshire 3.16 27.7
University of Portsmouth 3.12 43.9
South Bank University 3.12 22.3
University of Plymouth 3.1 44.8
Napier University 3.08 17.0
University of Brighton 3.04 44.9
Oxford Brookes University 2.96 48.1
University of West
of England, Bristol" 2.93 27.8
Manchester Metropolitan
University 2.87 34.4
University of Sunderland 2.86 29.2
Robert Gordon University 2.83 32.6
University of Glamorgan 2.77 17.5
Liverpool John Moores
University 2.77 36.4
University of East London 2.72 36.3
University of Northumbria
at Newcastle 2.69 26.0
University of North London 2.69 37.3
Middlesex University 2.68 43.1
De Montfort University 2.67 52.3
University of Central Lancashire 2.63 21.9
Glasgow Caledonian University 2.63 31.5
Leeds Metropolitan University 2.63 22.7
Thames Valley University 2.63 10.0
University of Lincolnshire
and Humberside 2.6 20.7
University of Huddersfield 2.53 44.5
Kingston University 2.53 33.3
Coventry University 2.48 34.2
University College
of Wales, Newport 2.35 19.4
Staffordshire University 2.21 38.4
London Guildhall University 2.2 36.0
University of Paisley 2.19 19.4
University of Derby 2.19 25.9
Anglia Polytechnic University 2.08 23.2
University of Abertay Dundee 1.99 35.5
Bournemouth University 1.97 18.8
University of Central England
in Birmingham 1.97 34.4
University of Wolverhampton 1.79 27.3
University of Teesside 1.74 32.1
University of Luton 1.72 28.0
The university rankings are based on the average points scored by each researcher entered for the exercise.
The points score has been calculated from the scores awarded to universities by the Higher Education Funding Council. There are seven grades from 1 through 2, 3a, 3b, 4, 5 to 5*.
The number of researchers scoring each grade has been calculated, added and divided by the total number of researchers entered.
The table also shows the percentage of university staff put forward by each university.
The more specialised institutions and the colleges of higher education have been omitted.
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