Loughborough retains 5th place in 2020 Times Higher Education 'Table of Tables'

Loughborough has retained its 5th place ranking in the latest Times Higher Education (THE) ‘Table of Tables’, released on 30 October.

The 2020 ‘Table of Tables’ ranks the UK’s top 30 universities based on the combined results of the three main domestic university league tables – the Times and Sunday Times Good University GuideThe Guardian University Guide, and the Complete University Guide – to provide a snapshot of how universities are viewed by national newspapers.

Loughborough is in the top ten of every national university league table, as well as being ranked first in the Midlands.

Speaking about Loughborough’s performance in the 2020 ‘Table of Tables’, the University’s Vice-Chancellor, Professor Robert Allison, said: “Our 5th place ranking in the ‘Table of Tables’ underlines our position as one of the country’s very best universities.

“Our continued success in the league tables is due to the hard work and dedication of staff and students across our campuses in Loughborough and London, as well as the Students’ Union. I am incredibly proud of what we have achieved.”

The full ‘Table of Tables’ is as follows:

Institution 

2020 rank 

University of Cambridge 

University of Oxford 

University of St Andrews 

Imperial College London 

Loughborough University 

Durham University 

Lancaster University 

University of Bath 

London School of Economics and Political Science 

University of Warwick 

10 

University of Exeter 

11 

University of Leeds 

12 

UCL 

13 

University of Birmingham 

14 

University of Glasgow 

15 

University of Bristol 

16 

University of Nottingham 

17 

University of Southampton 

18= 

University of Manchester 

18= 

University of Edinburgh 

20 

University of York 

21 

Royal Holloway, University of London 

22 

Nottingham Trent University 

23= 

University of East Anglia 

23= 

University for the Creative Arts 

25= 

Harper Adams University 

25= 

Coventry University 

27 

Lincoln University 

28 

University of Surrey 

29 

Newcastle University 

30