| University TQA RAE A Lev Score 1 Oxford 23 5* A 29.2 95.8 2 Cambridge 23 5* A 94.8 3 London, Imperial 24 5 A 21.8 91.2 4 Sheffield 22 5* A 20.6 85.8 5 Swansea E 5* A 17.9 83.9 6 Manchester 21 5* A 19.3 80.7 7 Liverpool 21 5* A 13.0 76.4 8 Birmingham 20 5* A 19.0 76.4 9 UMIST 20 5* A 18.5 76.0 10 Loughborough 21 4 A 19.1 73.1 Employment: 57.8% Further study: 31.3% Unemployment: 4.7% FEW subjects can match the research strength of materials technology, where eight of the 20 universities assessed in 1996 were considered internationally outstanding and all but four finished in the top three categories out of seven. For teaching quality, only two universities scored less than 20 out of 24. Ironically, the only English institution to record top marks for teaching, Imperial College, was also the only one of the top nine to miss out on a five-star rating for research. Oxford pips Cambridge to first place in the table with average entrygrades close to three As at A level - by far the highest for geology. |
