The University of Oxford has missed out on being named 'University of the Year' - despite topping the overall league table. It comes as Britain's best academic institutions were revealed in The Good University Guide 2023.
With the average student debt costing around £50,000, anyone thinking of applying to study next year might need thoroughly. The Times and The Sunday Times Good University Guide 2023 have today published its definitive rankings of the most comprehensive UK universities.
The list itself includes profiles on 135 universities across Britain. It is made utilising data published within the last two months reports The Mirror. According to the guide, The University of Bath has been named The Times and The Sunday Times’ University of the Year.
While it ranks at eighth in the overall table - up on place - it won the award on the account of its strength across the board. Being marked high for student satisfaction, and the fifth-highest for graduate prospects. It received record numbers of applicants in 2021 and 2022.
Meanwhile, Exeter was runner-up for University of the Year, having nearly doubled its enrolments over the past decade. While Birmingham, Oxford and Surrey were also shortlisted.
Although Oxford missed out on being crowned university of the year, it topped the league table. It has held the number one position now for the past 12 years.
And Durham has been named the Sports University of the Year, with its collegiate structure encouraging high participation rates throughout the university. Here are the top 10 university rankings of 2023:
University of Oxford
University of St Andrews
University of Cambridge
London School of Economics and Political Science
Imperial College London
Durham University
University College London
University of Bath
University of Warwick
University of Edinburgh
Since 2013, The Times and The Sunday Times have produced and published a combined Good University Guide to provide the most comprehensive guide to higher education in Britain. It supplies students and their parents with an invaluable reference point to finding the best university place, and contains a full profile of the top universities.
The academic league table itself is made up of nine indicators, including" student satisfaction with teaching quality and their wider student experience, research quality, graduate prospects, entrance qualifications held by new students, degree results achieved, student/staff ratios, service and facilities spend, and degree completion rates.
