Northumbria continues to climb up the rankings

Northumbria University is continuing to climb the national league tables, with an impressive seven place rise to rank 36th in the UK in the latest Complete University Guide.

Every year the Complete University Guide releases UK university and subject league tables to support prospective students, their parents and teachers in making informed decisions about their choice of universities. The league table is the first of the key national university annual league tables to be published since Northumbria was named the UK University of the Year 2022 by Times Higher Education. Covering 130 institutions, the 2024 guide is based on 10 measures: entry standards; student satisfaction; research quality; research intensity; graduate prospects – outcomes; graduate prospects – on track; student-staff ratio; spending on academic services; spending on student facilities, and continuation.

Northumbria’s rise in the Complete University Guide 2024 is down to an improved performance in a number of key metrics including entry standards, student satisfaction and graduate outcomes –an area Northumbria also performed well on in the latest Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) Graduate Outcomes survey. HESA’s survey ranked the University in the top 30 for the number of full-time UK graduates who go into skilled jobs, with more graduates from Northumbria going into highly skilled jobs in the North East than from any

“IT’S A GREAT WAY TO MARK THE HALFWAY POINT OF OUR TIME AS TIMES HIGHER EDUCATION’S UNIVERSITY OF THE YEAR.” other university. A number of Northumbria’s teaching areas also rank highly in the Complete University Guide’s subject tables, ranking in the top 10 for Forensic Science, Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy, Information Technology and Systems, Tourism and Building and in the top 20 for Education, Nursing, Food Science, Art and Design and Manufacturing and Production Engineering.

Commenting on the publication of the guide, ViceChancellor and Chief Executive, Professor Andy Long, said: “Northumbria University’s reputation has been rising rapidly in recent years and we are delighted to see yet another endorsement of our growing success in the publication of the Complete University Guide. In the last 12 months we have had the biggest rise in research power of any university in the UK, improved our student satisfaction scores and been named the UK university of the year. These all relate to the remarkable transformation that Northumbria has undergone over the last decade.”

Professor Long continued: “We are a new model of university, rooted in and serving our community and economy, with world-class teaching and cutting-edge research at our heart, and our improvement in the Complete University Guide is an achievement that we can all be proud of. It’s a great way to mark the halfway point of our time as Times Higher Education’s University of the Year.”

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