University

Score

1=

Cambridge

E

5*

B

100.0

1=

Oxford

E

5*

B

28.6

100.0

3

Newcastle

E

5

A

98.7

4

Edinburgh

E

5

A

23.5

95.4

5

Leeds

E

5

A

23.2

95.2

6

Liverpool

E

5

B

20.2

90.4

7

Durham

E

4

B

23.9

89.3

8

London, UCL

E

4

B

22.1

88.1

9

Manchester

E

4

A

17.7

87.2

10

London, Royal Holloway

E

4

B

16.7

84.3

11

London, Imperial

E

4

C

20.5

83.3

12

Southampton

E

3a

B

19.9

82.8

13

Birmingham

E

3a

C

21.2

80.8

14

Bristol

S

5

A

23.9

80.7

15

Reading

E

4

B

11.0

80.3

16

Glasgow

E

3a

B

16.0

80.1

17

Queens, Belfast

E

3b

C

17.8

75.5

18

Cardiff

S

4

A

19.2

73.3

Aberdeen

HS

3b

B

14.5

Anglia

S

9.6

Derby

E

2

D

10.3

Exeter

S

15.0

Greenwich

S

2

C

8.8

Keele

S

3a

B

Kingston

E

3b

C

10.4

Leicester

S

4

A

14.4

Luton

S

2

B

6.3

Oxford Brookes

S

2

C

11.1

Plymouth

E

12.9

Portsmouth

S

3b

B

12.7

St Andrews

HS

2

A

22.4

Staffordshire

S

10.8

Sunderland

S

2

D

9.6

Employment: 56.5% Further study: 31.4% Unemployment: 6.2% OXFORD and Cambridge's equal scores for excellence in teaching and research ensure that they share top place. They were the only universities in this group considered internationally outstanding in the last research assessment exercise. Excellent teaching was recorded at all the top 20 departments with the exception of Bristol and Cardiff, where it was satisfactory. Three new universities, Derby, Kingston and Plymouth, also achieved excellent ratings. The assessment of teaching in England is dated, but even in 1995 departments were complimented on their "robust" links with industry.