Latest Independent league table
First of the new season’s UK tables has just been published by the Independent.
Full details of the institutional and subject rankings are provided by the Complete University Guide which can be found here. There isn’t much change at the top but the most striking thing is the inclusion for the first time in a UK league table (I think) of the University of Buckingham, the UK’s first private university.
Rankings (2009 rank in brackets)
1 (1) Oxford
2 (2) Cambridge
3 (3) Imperial College London
4 (5) Durham
5 (4) London School of Economics>
6 (7) St Andrews
7 (6) Warwick
8 (12) Lancaster
9 (8) University College London
10 (10) York
11 (11) Edinburgh
12 (9) Bath
13 (17) King’s College London
14 (13) Southampton
15 (15) SOAS
16 (16) Bristol
17 (14) Aston
18 (19) Nottingham
19 (25) Sussex
20 (–) Buckingham
Also, the Complete University Guide people let you play with the weightings for each of the criteria, so it is possible to bump Oxbridge from the top slots if you really try.
