The Times and The Sunday Times Good University Guide 2023 names the University of Bath university of the year.
The University of Bath has been named The Times and The Sunday Times’ University of the Year, according to The Good University Guide 2023.
Ranking eighth in the overall league tables, up from ninth in 2021, Bath wins this year’s coveted University of the Year award on account of its strength across the board. As the fourth-highest institution for student satisfaction and fifth-highest for graduate prospects, it comes as no surprise that Bath has received record numbers of applicants in the 2021 and 2022 admissions cycles.
Exeter was runner-up for university of the year, having nearly doubled its enrolments over the past decade, while Birmingham, Oxford and Surrey were also shortlisted.
Oxford may have missed out on University of the Year, but it topped the league tables – its first number one position in 12 years. It performed well across all academic measures and demonstrated by far the lowest student-to-staff ratio (10.5:1).
Durham has been named the sports university of the year. As third in the British University and Colleges Sport league for 2021-22, and first for producing professional sports stars (141), Durham’s collegiate structure encourages high participation rates throughout the university.
The Times and The Sunday Times Good University Guide 2023 provides students and their parents with an invaluable first reference point on the path to finding a university place. It contains full profiles of all universities. The academic league table is made up of nine indicators including student satisfaction with teaching quality and their wider student experience, research quality, graduate prospects, entrance qualifications held by new students, degree results achieved, student/staff ratios, service and facilities spend, and degree completion rates.
National rank | University | Last year’s national rank | 2022 National student survey teaching quality (%)
| 2022 National student survey student experience (%) | Graduate prospects (% in high-skilled jobs or graduate-level study) | Completion rate (%) |
1 | University of Oxford | 2 | n/a | n/a | 91.6 | 99 |
2 | University of St Andrews | 1 | 84 | 80.5 | 86.9 | 95.9 |
3 | University of Cambridge | 3 | n/a | n/a | 92.6 | 99 |
4 | London School of Economics and Political Science | 5 | 74.5 | 73.3 | 89.1 | 96.7 |
5 | Imperial College London | 4 | 74.9 | 77.2 | 95.2 | 97.9 |
6 | Durham University | 6 | 74.9 | 70.8 | 87.3 | 97.2 |
7 | University College London | 7 | 73.8 | 73.8 | 86.4 | 94.8 |
8 | University of Bath | 9 | 76.7 | 79.7 | 90.9 | 96.2 |
9 | University of Warwick | 8 | 77 | 75.1 | 86.3 | 95.6 |
10 | University of Edinburgh | 13 | 68.6 | 67 | 84.6 | 94.3 |
11 | Loughborough University | 10 | 75.7 | 79.2 | 85.4 | 93.4 |
12 | Lancaster University | 11 | 77.6 | 76.6 | 82.6 | 94.1 |
13 | University of Exeter | 21 | 75.3 | 75.5 | 83.8 | 94.9 |
14 | University of Glasgow | 12 | 73.3 | 71.7 | 81.4 | 89.9 |
15 | University of Bristol | 14 | 71.2 | 69 | 84.7 | 95.9 |
16 | University of Southampton | 16 | 75.4 | 74.1 | 80.7 | 93.3 |
17 | University of York | 19 | 75.9 | 73.6 | 82 | 93.9 |
18 | University of Strathclyde | 17 | 76.7 | 75.1 | 83.8 | 91.1 |
19 | University of Aberdeen | 20 | 79.4 | 78.6 | 79.9 | 89.9 |
20= | University of Birmingham | 25 | 71.3 | 70.4 | 84.2 | 95.4 |
20= | University of Sheffield | 22 | 76.3 | 75 | 80.1 | 93.1 |
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