20 Sep 2019
Loughborough remains fifth best university in the UK in The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2020
Loughborough University has maintained its top five ranking for a second successive year in The Times and The Sunday Times Good University Guide 2020 and remains the top university in the Midlands.
The guide ranks universities on nine indicators – teaching quality, student satisfaction, research quality, graduate prospects, entrance qualifications held by new students, degree results achieved, student/staff ratios, service and facilities spend, and degree completion rates.
In the 2020 guide Loughborough is ranked fifth out of 134 universities and is first in five subject areas: Building; Communication and Media Studies; Criminology; Librarianship and Information Management; and Sport Science.
This success follows on from Loughborough being named The Times and Sunday Times University of the Year for a second time in the 2019 guide.
Speaking about its latest ranking, Vice-Chancellor Professor Robert Allison said: “Yet again this league table demonstrates that Loughborough is truly one of the country’s best universities. But this doesn’t happen by chance. The Loughborough family is incredible, working tirelessly to ensure that every student, both here at the Loughborough campus and at our campus in London, gets the very best out of their university years.
“I would like to thank everyone for their hard work and commitment and congratulate them on being part of a hugely successful top five UK university.”
The full Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2020 can be viewed here.
The UK’s top ten universities are:
|
University
|
National rank |
|
University of Cambridge |
1 |
|
University of Oxford |
2 |
|
University of St Andrews |
3 |
|
Imperial College London |
4 |
|
Loughborough University |
5 |
|
London School of Economics and Political Science |
6 |
|
Durham University |
7 |
|
Lancaster University |
8 |
|
University College London |
9 |
|
University of Warwick |
10 |
The top universities in the East Midlands are:
|
University |
Regional rank
|
|
Loughborough |
1 |
|
Nottingham |
2 |
|
Nottingham Trent |
3 |
|
Leicester |
4 |
|
Lincoln |
5 |
|
De Montfort |
6 |
|
Derby |
7 |
|
Bishop Grosseteste |
8 |