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REF 2014 Sector Results 1

Wonkhe has crunched the numbers and here is a ranking of UK higher education institutions based on their grade point average from the 2014 REF.

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Data|18/12/14
Mark Leach

Mark Leach

Mark is founder and Editor in Chief of Wonkhe
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Mark Leach
Mark is founder and Editor in Chief of Wonkhe

Below is a browsable table of the REF 2014 data. We've calculated a ranking of institutions based on grade point average which includes the specialist institutions that tend to score very highly in this measure, but have considerably smaller volume than the research-intensive universities - and so usually fall lower down on research 'power' which is what many other rankings assess. Original data from HEFCE, interpretation and scoring is ours.

We have also since published a second table following the release of further data from HESA which allows us to measure research 'intensity' in each university and score every institution. Find that here.

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