| University TQA RAE A Lev Score 1 Cambridge 22 5* A 29.7 95.5 2 Oxford 21 5 B 29.0 84.3 3 London, UCL 20 5* A 22.0 81.2 4 London, Royal Holloway 21 5 A 19.2 80.1 5 Birmingham 22 3a A 21.3 78.6 6 Exeter 22 3a A 20.0 77.7 7 Bristol 21 3a A 25.4 76.8 8 Reading 20 5 A 21.0 76.8 9 Glasgow 22 3b A 75.6 10 Strathclyde 22 3a C 74.9 11 Edinburgh 21 3a A 74.6 12 Hull 22 3b A 20.0 74.0 13 Oxford Brookes 22 2 A 71.0 14 Lancaster 20 4 A 16.0 69.7 15 Leeds 19 5* C 21.9 69.0 16 Cardiff S 4 A 20.0 67.8 17 St Andrews 22 25.2 66.7 18 Warwick 21 2 C 24.0 66.2 19 Swansea E 3a C 9.0 66.0 20 Leicester 20 3b A 18.2 63.7 Aberystwyth S 2 A Central Lancashire 21 15.1 Coventry 21 12.8 Durham 20 28.0 Kent 19 16.0 Liverpool John Moores 19 15.3 Manchester 19 3a B 18.7 Manchester Metropolitan 21 13.5 Queens, Belfast 19 18.0 Sussex 17 4 A 17.0 Westminster 19 4 D Employment: 74.1%Further study: 12.3%Unemployment: 8.6% ONLY 31 universities offer Italian, with Cambridge well ahead of the rest. Unusually, no institution was awarded more than 22 points out of 24 for teaching quality, although Swansea was rated as excellent under the Welsh system. Cambridge was one of the eight top scorers for teaching and shared the best research record with University College London. Leeds also achieved a five-star research rating. Oxford Brookes, one of the other top scorers for teaching, is the only new university in the top 20. Student numbers are small in several of the universities: only 474 were taking the language at degree level in 1998. |
