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UK Universities also rank highly in global university rankings with 8 UK Universities ranking in the top 100 of all three major global rankings as of 2023/24: QS World University Rankings, Times Higher Education World University Rankings and Academic Ranking of World Universities.
This is a list of university colleges in the UK.Institutions included on this list are university colleges that are recognised bodies with their own degree awarding powers; [1] it does not include institutions with "university college" in their title that are listed bodies as parts of a university (see colleges within universities in the United Kingdom), or other institutions with "university ...
Domestic rankings of universities in the UK were first introduced in 1993 by The Times Good University Guide. [170] Today, there are three main domestic league tables published by The Times and Sunday Times, The Guardian, and the Complete University Guide.
In the 2013 QS World University Rankings, UCL was ranked 8th in the world (and 3rd in Europe) for Arts and Humanities. [7] In the 2014 QS World University Rankings by Subject, UCL was ranked 15th in the world (and 4th in Europe) for English Language and Literature, [8] 8th in the world (and 3rd in Europe) for Modern Languages [9] and joint 51st-100th in the world (and joint 16th in Europe) for ...
UoL: Part of the University of London [8] QS: ranking in QS World University Rankings 2018 [9] THE: ranking in Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2017/2018 [10] RG: Russell Group, a self-selected association of 24 large British public research universities; ARWU: ranking in Academic Ranking of World Universities 2017 [11]
The fees remained frozen at £9,250 into the early 2020s. By 2023 this had led to a crisis in university funding as high inflation had eroded the value of tuition fees. The £9,250 fees charged in 2023 were worth only £6,500 in 2012 terms. [35] This was the cause of mass-layoffs in the sector beginning in late 2023, affecting 50 institutions. [36]
As of August 2017, there were 106 universities in England and 5 university colleges [1] out of a total of around 130 in the United Kingdom.This includes private universities but does not include other Higher Education Institutions [Note 1] that have not been given the right to call themselves "university" or "university college" by the Privy Council or Companies House (e.g. colleges of higher ...
Across all English universities, state school students who scored two Bs and a C at A-level did on average eight per cent better at degree level than their privately educated counterparts. [52] Two Bs and a C represents an entry tariff of 112, well below the average demanded by any of the UK's Russell Group universities.