The main league table 2009
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Col. 2, (Rank 2008)
Col. 3, Institution
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1 (2) Oxford
2 (1) Cambridge ** §
3 (4) London School of Economics
3 (3) Imperial College
5 (8) Warwick
6 (10) Durham
7 (5) St Andrews
8 (6) University College London
9 (24) SOAS
10 (19) Lancaster
11 (14) York
12 (20) Leicester
13 (11) Loughborough
14 (9) Bath
15 (17) King's College London
16 (14) Nottingham
16 (7) Bristol
16 (30) Glasgow >
19 (17) Exeter ^
20 (20) Southampton
21 (16) Edinburgh >
22 (13) Royal Holloway
23 (12) Aston
24 (31) Birmingham
25 (34) Essex
26 (25) Sheffield
27 (23) Newcastle
27 (31) Manchester
29 (26) Sussex
30 (35) Surrey
31 (41) Strathclyde
32 (37) Leeds
33 (20) East Anglia
34 (28) Queen's, Belfast
35 (36) Kent
35 (38) Stirling *
37 (27) Cardiff
38 (29) Reading
39 (33) Aberdeen #
40 (50) Keele
41 (52) Brunel
42 (41) Liverpool
43 (39) Queen Mary #
44 (51) Goldsmiths College
45 (43) Aberystwyth
46 (48) City
47 (47) Swansea
48 (39) Hull
49 (44) Heriot-Watt
49 (49) Bradford
51 (54) Ulster
52 (45) Dundee
52 (56) Nottingham Trent
54 (94) Hertfordshire < ^
55 (46) Bangor
56 (66) Bournemouth
56 (59) University of the Arts, London ~
58 (73) Gloucestershire
59 (53) Oxford Brookes
60 (76) Portsmouth
61 (55) Robert Gordon *
62 (101) West of Scotland *
63 (63) Central Lancashire
64 (88) De Montfort < ^
65 (74) UWIC, Cardiff
66 (77) West of England
67 (69) Brighton
68 (89) Abertay Dundee *
69 (67) Birmingham City
70 (57) Plymouth
71 (79) Chichester
71 (62) Salford
73 (75) Northumbria > < ^
74 (71) Winchester
75 (58) Queen Margaret *
76 (70) Bath Spa
77 (63) Roehampton < ^
77 (71) Napier *
79 (87) Sunderland
80 (78) Sheffield Hallam
80 (80) Staffordshire
82 (107) Middlesex >
83 (65) University of Wales, Newport
84 (81) Coventry
85 (86) Bedfordshire
86 (68) Glamorgan
86 #N/A Buckinghamshire New
88 (98) Manchester Metropolitan
89 (82) Kingston
90 (84) Chester
90 (85) Canterbury Christ Church
92 (97) Westminster
93 (83) Worcester
93 (95) Northampton
95 (106) Southampton Solent
96 (61) Glasgow Caledonian ~
97 (100) York St John
98 (95) Leeds Metropolitan
99 (109) Lincoln ~ #
100 (90) Liverpool John Moores
101 (59) Lampeter
102 (99) Teesside >
103 (102) Derby
104 (105) Cumbria
105 (91) Huddersfield
105 (93) East London
107 (107) Wolverhampton
107 (110) Edge Hill ^ >
109 (104) Anglia Ruskin
110 (103) Thames Valley
111 (113) Greenwich
112 (91) Bolton
113 (112) London South Bank
* National Student Survey data not available, average for all universities used
** National Student Survey data not available, data provided by the University
~ Entry Standards data provided by the University
> SSR data provided by the University
< Staff & Student Facilities spend provided by the University
^ Academic Services spend provided by the University
# Good Honours data provided by the University
§ Completion data not available, last year’s data used
London Metropolitan and Liverpool Hope Universities declined to release data for use in the table.
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