2009 Guardian University League Table

It’s that time of year again, when everyone is producing their league tables. So, now the Guardian one is out. And there are some pretty extraordinary results in here with, for example, Bournemouth and Nottingham Trent both appearing above Liverpool and Newcastle. The top 20 features less than half of the Russell Group. Not entirely clear what the reasons for these results are.

The top 45 are listed below:

University ranking
Tariff band Guardian score/100
1 Oxford 100.0
2 Cambridge 92.9
3 London School of Economics 84.3
4 Warwick 81.5
5 St Andrews 78.3
6 Imperial College 78.0
7 UCL 76.6
8 SOAS 74.2
9 Edinburgh 73.4
10 Loughborough 72.7
11 York 72.5
12 Lancaster 71.7
13 University of the Arts, London 71.2
14 Bath 71.0
15 Exeter 70.8
15 Leicester 70.8
17 Durham 69.1
18 Dundee 67.8
19 Aston 67.1
19 Nottingham 67.1
21 Glasgow 67.0
22 King’s College London 66.4
23 Surrey 66.3
24 Aberdeen 66.1
25 Manchester 65.9
26 Southampton 65.7
27 City 64.9
27 Leeds 64.9
29 Kent 64.7
30 Strathclyde 64.2
31 Birmingham 64.0
32 Bristol 63.7
33 Stirling 62.9
34 Cardiff 62.6
35 Sussex 62.3
36 Essex 62.0
36 Royal Holloway 62.0
38 Sheffield 61.8
39 Bournemouth 61.5
40 Reading 61.3
40 UEA 61.3
42 Nottingham Trent 60.8
43 Goldsmiths 60.6
44 Newcastle 60.3
45 Liverpool 60.1