CUG Rank

University Name

Entry Standards

Student Satisfaction

Research Quality

Graduate Prospects

Overall Score

2016

2015

1

1

Cambridge

601

4.18

3.33

88.3

1000

2

2

Oxford

571

4.17

3.34

81.9

989

3

3

London School of Economics

532

3.95

3.35

83

953

4

6

Imperial College London

566

4.1

3.36

89.9

943

5

5

Durham

521

4.16

3.14

79.5

926

5

4

St Andrews

516

4.25

3.13

78.5

926

7

7

Warwick

480

4.12

3.22

77.6

909

8

12

Surrey

424

4.24

2.98

81.2

885

9

11

Lancaster

434

4.1

3.15

78.1

882

10

10

Exeter

463

4.22

3.08

79.4

876

11

8

Bath

476

4.24

3.17

85.1

874

11

13

Loughborough

397

4.19

2.95

79.9

874

13

9

University College London

500

3.96

3.22

81.3

873

14

16

Southampton

408

4.05

3.15

77.7

842

15

18

Bristol

486

3.99

3.18

80.2

834

16

15

East Anglia

406

4.19

3.11

70.1

828

17

14

York

436

4.06

3.17

73.6

824

18

17

Birmingham

425

4.08

3.07

84

823

19

23

Leeds

430

4.09

3.13

74.5

821

20

21

Edinburgh

482

3.86

3.18

77.9

818

21

38

Sussex

385

4.05

3.01

74.9

812

22

22

Kent

359

4.13

2.95

75.2

811

23

28

King's College London

453

3.95

3.23

79.6

805

24

19

Leicester

386

4.08

2.93

73.6

799

25

23

Nottingham

426

4.05

3.09

79.2

795

26

20

Newcastle

425

4.13

3.09

78.7

791

27

26

Sheffield

427

4.07

3.17

76.9

786

28

28

Manchester

433

4.02

3.16

75.5

785

29

37

Reading

371

4.1

3.03

71.5

783

30

30

Glasgow

465

4.11

3.1

79.9

782

31

23

Cardiff

425

4.05

3.27

81.5

777

32

27

Aston

368

4.12

3.05

76.6

771

33

36

Queen Mary, University of London

408

4.04

3.18

69.4

760

34

33

Royal Holloway, University of London

398

4.12

3.09

62.2

759

34

39

Essex

309

4.2

3.05

64.2

759

36

31

Queen's, Belfast

380

4.1

2.99

74.9

755

37

33

Heriot-Watt

411

4.15

3.06

73.2

753

38

41

Strathclyde

473

4.02

3.04

77.6

748

39

31

Liverpool

403

3.97

3.06

72.8

747

40

44

Aberdeen

445

3.95

2.97

74.2

733

41

40

City

377

3.99

2.95

73.7

725

42

49

Dundee

398

4.13

3.03

70.3

716

43

35

SOAS, University of London

407

3.97

2.82

62.6

713

43

46

St George's, University of London

419

3.91

2.99

89.4

713

45

42

Swansea

325

4.01

3.09

78.7

711

46

43

Keele

358

4.22

2.88

71.9

704

47

45

Stirling

371

3.98

2.96

70.1

700

48

51

Coventry

309

4.27

2.67

70.8

690

49

47

Brunel University London

351

4.14

2.67

59.5

687

50

50

Goldsmiths, University of London

352

3.98

2.9

55.4

680

51

55

Lincoln

334

4.09

2.54

67.4

664

52

62

University for the Creative Arts

325

3.95

2.72

49.3

657

53

52

Nottingham Trent

309

4.09

2.59

63.3

655

54

71

De Montfort

305

4.08

2.67

68.7

651

54

65

Bournemouth

327

3.89

2.72

62.9

651

54

48

Oxford Brookes

345

4.1

2.66

66.7

651

57

57

Arts University Bournemouth

318

4.08

2.3

65.9

650

58

64

Bangor

323

4.19

2.99

66.1

647

59

63

Portsmouth

306

4.08

2.75

66.2

642

60

84

Harper Adams

331

4.11

2.66

67

637

60

58

Northumbria

360

4.01

2.71

61.7

637

62

53

West of England, Bristol

324

3.97

2.7

68.2

633

63

77

Bradford

312

3.97

2.95

72.1

632

63

66

Hull

326

4.11

2.7

63.1

632

63

54

Robert Gordon

382

4.05

2.35

80.2

632

66

93

Roehampton

284

4.1

2.83

56.3

625

66

84

Ulster

308

4.09

2.91

56.5

625

68

81

Liverpool John Moores

342

4.07

2.79

61.1

624

69

61

Buckingham

299

4.26

75.3

623

70

69

Bath Spa

315

4.11

2.52

55.4

622

70

55

Falmouth

307

4.07

2.04

69.8

622

72

66

Sheffield Hallam

317

4.02

2.76

59.2

619

73

73

Manchester Metropolitan

345

3.99

2.74

60

618

74

70

Huddersfield

324

4.12

2.65

69.2

613

75

60

Hertfordshire

316

3.92

2.61

67.9

612

76

73

Brighton

315

4

2.84

64.4

608

77

76

Chichester

306

4.14

2.5

56.8

604

78

80

Queen Margaret

340

4.03

2.65

62.4

603

79

98

Cardiff Metropolitan

314

4.03

3

58.2

601

80

91

Gloucestershire

312

4.06

2.38

57.9

595

80

66

University of the Arts, London

311

3.85

3.12

54.5

595

82

89

Edge Hill

317

4.16

2.22

58.2

592

83

72

Glasgow Caledonian

370

3.93

2.67

67.9

591

83

73

Northampton

281

4.18

2.09

59.3

591

85

83

Royal Agricultural University

306

3.81

1.4

71.6

579

86

87

Aberystwyth

310

3.92

2.84

52.6

570

86

59

Winchester

305

4.09

2.32

51.1

570

88

82

Birmingham City

298

4.04

2.64

62.4

568

89

94

Middlesex

271

4.07

2.58

56.4

565

90

79

Plymouth

308

4.03

2.74

57.4

561

91

90

Central Lancashire

311

4.04

2.51

58.6

560

92

101

Edinburgh Napier

333

4.02

2.52

61

555

93

78

Chester

299

4.13

2.08

65.3

554

94

87

Derby

288

4.12

2.07

54

541

95

91

Abertay

334

3.95

2.16

60.5

536

96

84

Salford

328

3.93

2.54

56

534

97

-

Liverpool Hope

302

4.01

2.21

52

531

98

96

Teesside

303

4.09

2.58

57

529

99

95

York St John

291

4.03

2.04

64.4

528

100

96

Westminster

309

3.96

2.74

50.1

525

101

113

Leeds Trinity

281

4.15

2.01

65.1

519

102

100

South Wales

319

3.96

2.51

54.6

513

103

105

Staffordshire

268

4.04

2.2

54.7

512

104

107

Kingston

297

3.9

2.7

53.8

511

105

104

Worcester

296

3.98

2.08

60.4

509

106

103

Canterbury Christ Church

270

4.03

2.38

59.8

507

107

99

Greenwich

309

4.08

2.33

48.6

505

108

110

West London

257

4

1.92

67.1

492

109

-

St Mary's, Twickenham

287

4.07

1.98

62.9

486

110

117

Bedfordshire

227

4.04

2.52

59.3

484

111

112

Cumbria

292

4.11

2.13

61.2

475

112

109

St Mark and St John

313

4.11

63.5

470

113

115

Buckinghamshire New

256

3.88

2.19

52.8

467

114

102

Leeds Beckett

284

3.93

2.16

55.2

460

115

116

Anglia Ruskin

249

4.1

2.37

58.3

453

116

108

Sunderland

293

4.02

2.12

50.5

440

117

118

Bishop Grosseteste

282

4.12

1.96

66.8

435

118

119

West of Scotland

297

3.96

2.36

57.9

430

119

120

London South Bank

244

3.94

2.52

48.6

429

120

106

Newman

291

4.07

2.13

56.2

425

121

121

Bolton

282

4.03

2.04

57

424

122

114

Southampton Solent

272

3.91

1.63

50

412

123

110

Glyndwr

243

4.07

2.15

63.3

407

124

122

East London

273

4.06

2.71

49.9

406

125

-

Trinity Saint David

263

4.06

2.39

50.2

405

126

123

London Metropolitan

220

3.86

2.44

44.6

327