University

Score

1=

Cambridge

E

5*

A

1=

Oxford

E

5*

A

29.5

3

London, Imperial

E

5

A

27.7

4

Edinburgh

E

5

A

24.8

5

Bristol

E

5

A

24.6

6

Durham

E

5

B

25.7

7

Nottingham

E

5

B

25.2

8

Leeds

E

5

A

19.7

9

Southampton

E

5

B

23.1

10

Strathclyde

E

4

B

27.1

11

St Andrews

E

4

A

22.2

12

Leicester

E

4

A

18.9

13

Manchester

E

4

B

20.2

14

Glasgow

E

3a

B

24.0

15

Hull

E

4

A

14.4

16

Cardiff

E

3a

A

17.7

17

Sheffield

S

4

A

24.6

18

Birmingham

S

5

B

22.0

19

Bangor

E

3b

B

14.0

20

York

S

4

A

23.0

Aberdeen

HS

3b

B

Bath

S

4

A

22.0

Exeter

S

4

B

18.9

Keele

S

3a

A

Liverpool

S

4

B

18.7

London, UCL

S

4

A

22.2

Newcastle

S

3a

A

19.6

Reading

S

4

A

16.3

UMIST

S

4

B

21.7

Warwick

S

3a

A

21.2

East Anglia

S

3a

A

16.8

Heriot-Watt

HS

3a

B

10.5

London, Kings

S

3a

B

19.2

Loughborough

S

3a

B

16.4

Nottingham Trent

E

2

D

11.7

Queens, Belfast

S

3b

A

21.8

Salford

S

3a

A

13.7

Surrey

S

3b

A

17.5

Sussex

S

5

B

12.0

Swansea

S

3a

B

18.4

Abertay Dundee

HS

1

F

Bristol, West of England

S

2

C

De Montfort

S

3b

C

8.3

Dundee

S

19.3

Essex

S

2

C

Kent

S

3b

B

13.0

Lancaster

S

19.8

London, Queen Mary

S

3b

A

14.5

Paisley

HS

1

D

Robert Gordon

E

6.0

Anglia

S

16.0

Aston

S

14.5

Bradford

S

17.5

Brunel

S

2

C

11.0

Derby

S

1

D

Huddersfield

S

2

C

9.3

North London

S

2

C

10.3

Northumbria

S

2

C

9.6

Plymouth

S

15.0

Sunderland

S

2

C

11.8

Central Lancashire

S

2

E

7.2

Coventry

S

1

C

9.7

Glamorgan

S

8.0

Greenwich

S

7.5

Hertfordshire

S

9.8

Kingston

S

10.2

Liverpool John Moores

S

1

D

10.8

Manchester Metropolitan

S

1

D

5.6

Portsmouth

S

10.3

Sheffield Hallam

S

8.9

Staffordshire

S

1

D

8.2

Teesside

S

1

D

10.1

Wolverhampton

S

1

F

7.6

MORE than 70 universities offer chemistry, but none seriously challenges Oxford and Cambridge, which are locked together at the top of the table. Both were among the 19 institutions rated as excellent for teaching quality and they registered the only five-star grades for research. Imperial College, London, remains the nearest challenger, as one of the seven universities on the next rung of the research ladder, and with the highest entry grades outside Oxbridge. Only Nottingham Trent represents the former polytechnics in the first 40 places. It and Robert Gordon were the only new universities rated excellent at teaching.