Friday, 20 September 2024
The University of Nottingham has been ranked in the Top 30 UK universities by the Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2025.
Nottingham has risen two places to secure joint overall 30th place in the league table and associated guide, which provides prospective students and their families with essential information for making informed higher education choices, evaluating aspects from teaching quality and student experience to degree completion rates and graduate employment prospects.
The Times and Sunday Times says Nottingham’s two-place rise in the main academic ranking is driven by significantly improved rates of student satisfaction, with its analysis of the latest National Student Survey showing growing contentment with the wider undergraduate experience and teaching quality.
In its graduate outcomes analysis, Nottingham secures a top 20 result, based on 83.3 per cent being in highly skilled jobs or further study within 15 months, and is ranked 22nd for research quality based on the latest Research Excellence Framework (REF 2021) and its strong reputation in research areas such as MRI and its work to establish a new £29.1 million national facility housing the UK’s most powerful MRI scanner which will give researchers and doctors unprecedented insights into brain function.
More than 20 subjects at the University of Nottingham were featured in the Top 10 of the subject rankings including Building (2nd), East and South Asian Studies (3rd), Social Work (4th) and American Studies, Animal Science, Chemical Engineering and Liberal Arts (5th), with more than 35 subjects appearing in the Top 20 this year.
A fully searchable website with 70 subject tables, full interactive tables and additional features is now online on The Times and The Sunday Times: https://www.thetimes.com/uk-university-rankings A 96-page supplement will also be included with The Sunday Times on September 22.
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About the University of Nottingham
Ranked 32 in Europe and 16th in the UK by the QS World University Rankings: Europe 2024, the University of Nottingham is a founding member of the Russell Group of research-intensive universities. Studying at the University of Nottingham is a life-changing experience, and we pride ourselves on unlocking the potential of our students. We have a pioneering spirit, expressed in the vision of our founder Sir Jesse Boot, which has seen us lead the way in establishing campuses in China and Malaysia - part of a globally connected network of education, research and industrial engagement.
Nottingham was crowned Sports University of the Year by The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2024 – the third time it has been given the honour since 2018 – and by the Daily Mail University Guide 2024.
The university is among the best universities in the UK for the strength of our research, positioned seventh for research power in the UK according to REF 2021. The birthplace of discoveries such as MRI and ibuprofen, our innovations transform lives and tackle global problems such as sustainable food supplies, ending modern slavery, developing greener transport, and reducing reliance on fossil fuels.
The university is a major employer and industry partner - locally and globally - and our graduates are the second most targeted by the UK's top employers, according to The Graduate Market in 2022 report by High Fliers Research.
We lead the Universities for Nottingham initiative, in partnership with Nottingham Trent University, a pioneering collaboration between the city’s two world-class institutions to improve levels of prosperity, opportunity, sustainability, health and wellbeing for residents in the city and region we are proud to call home.
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