University

TQA

RAE

A Lev

Score

1

Bath

5*

B

26.1

90.5

2

London, Imperial

22

5*

B

28.9

88.8

3

Nottingham

24

4

A

21.2

87.2

4

UMIST

5

A

22.1

83.1

5

Loughborough

23

4

B

22.6

82.0

6

Bristol

22

4

B

27.5

81.2

7

Queens, Belfast

21

5*

B

23.2

80.7

8

Southampton

21

5

B

27.5

80.4

9

Cranfield

22

5

C

76.9

10

Cardiff

5

A

16.4

75.2

11

Glasgow

4

B

24.3

74.7

12

Liverpool

20

5

B

20.6

71.4

13

Bradford

4

A

19.0

71.3

14

Manchester

20

4

C

24.6

67.5

15

Birmingham

20

3a

B

19.9

64.3

16

Hull

3a

A

18.9

63.7

17

Brunel

20

4

C

17.5

62.6

18

Kingston

24

2

E

9.0

62.3

19

London, Queen Mary

4

C

18.4

59.7

20

London, Kings

5*

D

17.5

58.5

Central England

19

10.8

City

19

2

A

17.4

Coventry

18

2

E

15.0

De Montfort

3b

C

16.0

Hertfordshire

22

3b

F

11.9

Salford

3b

A

12.5

Sheffield Hallam

21

3b

E

11.1

Strathclyde

3b

C

25.0

Sunderland

19

3b

F

11.0

Swansea

4

C

11.0

Anglia

19

10.5

Bournemouth

18

6.0

Derby

3b

E

12.8

East London

18

1

F

11.5

Huddersfield

3b

E

10.0

Leeds Metropolitan

17

8.5

Lincolnshire & Humberside

18

11.0

Liverpool John Moores

2

D

10.3

Middlesex

1

C

12.0

Northumbria

3a

E

9.8

Nottingham Trent

3b

D

11.7

Plymouth

2

B

11.4

South Bank

17

3b

E

9.2

Staffordshire

3b

E

11.6

Teesside

1

C

15.3

Employment: 26.0% (aeronautical), 22.8% (production) Further study: 70.0% (aeronautical), 66.7% (production) Unemployment: 4.0% (aeronautical), 7.0% (production) SOME of these courses have a mechanical title but none covered in the earlier assessment of mechanical engineering was revisited. Bath and Imperial are rated internationally outstanding for research, as are Queen's University, Belfast, and King's College, London. Nottingham and Kingston were the only institutions with maximum points for teaching quality.