Loughborough only Midlands university to feature in top ten of The Complete University Guide 2020

The fountain lawn and Hazlerigg building

Loughborough is the only university in the Midlands to feature in the top ten of The Complete University Guide 2020, published today (Wednesday 1 May 2019).

Loughborough is the only university in the Midlands to feature in the top ten of The Complete University Guide 2020, published today (Wednesday 1 May 2019).

The league table is based on ten measures: Entry Standards, Student Satisfaction, Research Quality, Research Intensity, Graduate Prospects, Student-Staff Ratio, Spending on Academic Services, Spending on Student Facilities, Good Honours Degrees, and Completion, and includes 131 institutions. Loughborough is ranked eighth in the national table.

In the guide’s subject tables, Loughborough has risen to 4th place for Sport Science and 8th for Human Biology (Anatomy & Physiology).    

Speaking about the 2020 guide Professor Robert Allison, Loughborough’s Vice-Chancellor, said: “Loughborough’s continued presence in the top ten of The Complete University Guide, the only university in the Midlands to feature, underlines our position as one of the very best universities in the country.

“This does not happen by chance. Staff across the University and the Students’ Union work tirelessly to ensure our students get the very best out of their university years. Our top ten ranking is testament to this.”

The top ten universities in The UK Complete University Guide 2020 are: 

  1. Cambridge
  2. Oxford
  3. St Andrews
  4. London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
  5. Imperial College London
  6. Durham
  7. Lancaster
  8. Loughborough
  9. Bath
  10. University College London

The full league table can be viewed at TheCompleteUniversityGuide.co.uk.