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26 Apr 2017

Loughborough top ten again in national ranking of 129 universities

Loughborough has consolidated its position as one of the best universities in the country with another top ten ranking in TheCompleteUniversityGuide.co.uk 2018.

‌The league table is based on ten measures: student satisfaction, research quality, research intensity, entry standards, student to staff ratio, spending on academic services, spending on student facilities, good honours degrees achieved, graduate prospects and completion. It includes 129 institutions.

Loughborough has been ranked tenth in the UK, and remains the top ranked university in the East Midlands. In separate listings covering 70 subjects, Loughborough features in the top ten for 14 of the 29 subjects it teaches, finishing first for Librarianship and Information Management.

Speaking about the 2018 guide Professor Robert Allison, Loughborough’s Vice-Chancellor said: “It is great to get independent confirmation of the fantastic environment we have created here at the campus. This top ten ranking reinforces Loughborough’s position as one of the best universities in the country, and that yet again we are the best in the region.”

The top ten universities in The UK Complete University Guide 2018 are:

  1. Cambridge
  2. Oxford
  3. St Andrews
  4. London School of Economics
  5. Imperial College London
  6. Durham
  7. University College London
  8. Warwick
  9. Lancaster
  10. Loughborough

To see the table in full click here