| University TQA RAE A Lev Score 1 Sheffield 24 5 A 23.7 92.2 2 Cambridge 22 5 A 29.7 87.9 3 St Andrews 22 4 A 25.2 81.2 4 Bangor E 4 A 80.2 5 London, SEES 23 4 B 19.0 79.1 6 Nottingham 19 5* A 25.6 76.4 7 Birmingham 23 3a A 17.2 76.2 8 Oxford 21 5 C 27.7 76.0 9 Bristol 20 5 A 24.0 75.8 10 Strathclyde 22 3a A 75.6 11 Glasgow 22 3a B 73.6 12 London, Queen Mary 23 5* D 15.0 73.1 13 Durham 20 3a A 28.0 71.0 14 Edinburgh 21 3a A 70.4 15 Keele 20 4 A 69.8 16 Leeds 20 4 A 19.0 68.7 17 Heriot-Watt 21 24.7 58.4 18 Wolverhampton 22 17.0 57.3 19 Exeter 20 3b C 17.3 56.8 20 Sussex 17 3a A 17.0 51.1 Coventry 21 12.8 Liverpool John Moores 19 15.3 Manchester 16 3a A 22.0 Nottingham Trent 17 15.7 Portsmouth 18 5 D 15.7 Surrey 18 25.0 Swansea S 4 D 6.0 Employment: 71.4%Further study: 16.7%Unemployment: 6.0% AS THE only university in England or Scotland awarded maximum points for teaching quality, Sheffield tops the Russian table, despite average entry standard three grades below those at second-placed Cambridge. Neither earned one of the two five-star research grades, which went to Nottingham and Queen Mary and Westfield College, London. Most of the 27 institutions in the ranking are old universities, but Wolverhampton makes the top 20 with a teaching-quality grade bettered by only four universities in England. Bangor scored maximum points in Wales. Outside the top institutions, grades are modest. |
