| University TQA RAE A Lev Score 1 London, Imperial 22 5* A 27.2 95.5 2 Cambridge 23 5 A 95.3 3 UMIST 22 5 B 25.3 87.9 4 Sheffield 21 5 A 21.0 82.6 5 Loughborough 22 4 B 22.2 82.2 6 Bath 20 5 A 23.0 79.5 7 London, UCL 20 5 B 23.3 77.3 8 Birmingham 21 5 C 22.5 77.2 9 Queens, Belfast 21 3a A 22.8 76.4 10 Newcastle 21 3a B 22.4 74.5 11 Swansea E 3a B 12.5 71.8 12 Nottingham 21 3b C 22.8 69.5 13 Edinburgh 19 3a A 23.3 67.7 14 Bradford 20 3a B 10.2 61.0 15 Leeds 19 3b A 16.2 58.7 16 Surrey 18 3a A 17.1 58.6 17 Strathclyde 20 2 C 56.9 18 Heriot-Watt 19 3b B 14.8 56.5 19 Aston 19 16.6 48.2 20 South Bank 18 2 D 10.3 42.5 Teesside 17 1 B 10.6 Employment: 74% Further study: 13.6% Unemployment: 7.2% THERE is little to separate Imperial College and Cambridge at the top. Imperial is fractionally ahead as the only institution with a five-star rating for research, although Cambridge boasts the best score for teaching quality. With little more than 4,000 full-time undergraduates and tiny numbers taking part-time or sub-degree courses, this is one of the smaller branches of engineering. Average entry grades are the highest for any engineering subject. This helps produce engineering's largest proportion of firsts and upper-seconds. |
