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According to the Academic Ranking of World Universities, the department is the 9th best physics department in the world and best in Europe. [4] It is ranked 2nd place in the UK by Grade Point Average according to the Research Excellence Framework (REF) in 2021, being only behind the University of Sheffield. [5]
Top 40 universities based on The Guardian's aggregated results over the past 10 years. The Guardian 's ranking uses nine different criteria, each weighted between 5 and 15 per cent. Unlike other annual rankings of British universities, the criteria do not include a measure of research output. [8]
The Guardian University Guide, an annual ranking of UK universities produced by The Guardian. Times/Sunday_Times: The The Times and Sunday Times University League Tables, an annual ranking of UK universities jointly produced by The Times and The Sunday Times. THE_W: The Times Higher Education World University Rankings (ranking among all ...
The QS World University Rankings are a ranking of the world's top universities produced by Quacquarelli Symonds published annually since 2004. In 2024, they ranked 1500 universities, with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Imperial College London, University of Oxford, Harvard University and University of Cambridge taking the top 5 spots. [15]
The Ogden Centre for Fundamental Physics. Astronomy within the department dates back to 1975. [16] The scope of activity has grown substantially since then and it is now one of the largest astronomy groups in Europe. [17] The Ogden Centre for Fundamental Physics building, designed by Studio Daniel Libeskind, opened in November 2016. [18]
The three main global university rankings (ARWU, THE, and QS) place the University of Edinburgh within their respective top 40. [10] [11] [12] It is a member of several associations of research-intensive universities, including the Coimbra Group, League of European Research Universities, Russell Group, Una Europa, and Universitas 21. [13]
The University of Edinburgh School of Physics and Astronomy is the physics department of the University of Edinburgh. The School was formed in 1993 by a merger of the Department of Physics and the Department of Astronomy, both at the University of Edinburgh. The Department of Physics itself was a merger between the Department of Natural ...
Edinburgh (20th), Manchester (27th), King's College London (33rd), LSE (44th), and Bristol (49th) also make the top fifty and a further nine UK universities (eighteen total) make the top 100. [188] The Academic Ranking of World Universities also places Cambridge (third in 2019) and Oxford (seventh) consistently in the world top ten. [207]