Complete University Guide 2012

Cambridge is ranked because the first-class UK university inside the Complete University Guide 2012, in advance of Oxford (2nd) and Imperial (third).

The University of York is ranked No. 1 in Yorkshire and the Humber, however has slipped locations from tenth in 2011 to twelfth common in 2012. York is also placed inside the top ten for 12 of the 26 subjects offered.

Lancaster University is ranked top in the North West and 9th in the UK out of extra than one hundred universities. It moreover scored highly within the Guide's individual problem scores: Accounting and Finance became ranked 4th and Business Studies changed into ranked 7th.

Buckingham University, a private UK group, dropped 22 locations shape 20th to 40 second in 2012, but it took top spot for pupil pride similarly to graduate opportunities and body of workers to pupil ratios.

The University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) is referred to as the top current University in the North West. Overall UCLan has superior its rating from 72nd to sixty fifth function out of 116 universities. In terms of facilities spend, UCLan is ranked nineteenth nationally and 2d in the North West. It turn out to be located 39th nationally and second amongst North West universities in the magnificence of scholar pleasure.

The pinnacle 20 UK institutions:

1 Cambridge

2 Oxford

3 Imperial College London

four London School of Economics

5 Durham

6 St Andrews

7 University College London

8 Warwick

nine Lancaster

10 Bath

11 Bristol

12  York

13 Edinburgh

14 Southampton

15 Exeter

sixteen King's College London

17 Nottingham

18 SOAS

19 Loughborough

19 Sussex

Source: Complete University Guide 2012

* Suggested Reading:

Times University Ranking 2012

Sunday Times University Guide 2012

QS World University Rankings 2011/2012