Overall

Research

Tariff

Destinations

score

1

Oxford

5*

A

475

70

100.0

2

York

5*

A

457

70

99.3

3

Durham

5*

A

468

66

98.5

4

Cambridge

5*

B

462

70

97.8

5

University College London

5*

A

414

70

97.5

6

Leeds

5*

A

424

62

95.5

7

St Andrews

5*

B

429

62

94.0

8

Warwick

5*

B

431

60

93.4

9

Edinburgh

5*

A

415

56

93.3

10

Bristol

5

C

450

70

92.8

11

Newcastle

5

A

396

64

92.7

12

Cardiff

5*

B

396

60

92.0

13

Sheffield

5

B

422

60

91.1

14

Nottingham

5

A

440

52

90.8

15

Royal Holloway

5

A

368

60

90.3

16

Queens, Belfast

5

A

322

66

90.3

17

Leicester

5

A

346

62

90.0

18

Liverpool

5*

B

373

56

89.8

19

Manchester

5

B

399

58

89.5

20

Southampton

5

A

364

54

88.3

How to use the subject tables

Universities are ranked by the overall combined score from four indicators: assessments of teaching quality and research, average A-level scores of entrants and destinations. The destinations figure is the percentage of graduates who go on to graduate-type jobs or further study. Scores are weighted to ensure fairness when data is missing from one of the columns