2017 Rank

2016 Rank

University

Total

1

1

U of Cambridge

1000

2

2

U of Oxford

968

3

4

U of St Andrews

929

4

5

Durham U

857

5

3

Imperial College London

840

6

10

UCL

838

7

6

U of Warwick

813

8

9

LSE

808

9=

7

U of Exeter

807

9=

11

Lancaster U

807

11

13

Loughborough U

793

12

12

U of Bath

786

13

14

U of Leeds

780

14

8

U of Surrey

774

15

18

U of East Anglia

769

16

17

U of Birmingham

761

17

15

U of York

758

18

19

U of Sussex

744

19

20

U of Biristol

741

20

25

U of Nottingham

738

21

16

U of Southampton

734

22

23=

Newcastle U

728

23

23=

U of Kent

723

24

21

U of Sheffield

716

25

28=

U of Leicester

713

26

31

Queen’s U, Belfast

710

27

27

King’s College London

709

28

37

U of Dundee

706

29

26

U of Glasgow

704

30

35

U of Essex

701

31

32

U of Reading

696

32

28=

U of Manchester

694

33

30

Aston University Birmingham

693

34

36

Royal Holloway, UoL

688

35

44

SOAS

687

36

49

Harper Adams U

681

37=

22

U of Edinburgh

676

37=

38=

Heriot-Watt U

676

39

38=

U of Liverpool

672

40

34

Queen Mary, UoL

665

41

38=

U of Buckingham

661

42

43

Keele U

657

43

50

U of Stirling

657

44=

45

U of Aberdeen

653

44=

41=

Swansea U

653

46

33

Cardiff U

642

47

47

Coventry U

639

48

46

U of Strathclyde

629

49

79=

Liverpool Hope U

622

50

41=

City, UoL

620

51

62=

U of Lincoln

619

52

56

Falmouth U

593

53

62=

U for the Creative Arts

591

54=

60

Brunel U London

588

54=

66

Goldsmiths, UoL

588

56

79=

Aberystwyth U

583

57

54

Nottingham Trent U

580

58

68

Edge Hill U

579

59

59

U of Portsmouth

575

60

73

U of the West of England

565

61

52

Bangor U

557

62

82=

Bournemouth U

555

63

51

Royal Agricultural U

551

64

81

Arts University Bournemouth

546

65=

67

U of Hull

543

65=

64=

Northumbria U

543

67

53

De Montfort U

541

68

57

Ulster U

539

69

55

Oxfords Brookes U

537

70

48

St George’s, UoL

536

71

88

U of Gloucestershire

532

72=

77

Manchester Metropolitan U

527

72=

64=

U of Winchester

527

74

85=

Middlesex U

522

75

58

Bath Spa U

521

76

75

U of Bradford

520

77

69=

U of Huddersfield

519

78

78

U of Roehampton

517

79

72

Sheffield Hallam U

515

80

85=

Plymouth U

514

81

87

U of Chester

513

82

69=

U of Chichester

511

83

84

U of Derby

507

84

121

U of West London

499

85

97

Abertay U

498

86=

74

Liverpool John Moores U

497

86=

69=

Robert Gordon U

497

88

61

Norwich U of the Arts

491

89

103

Cardiff Metropolitan U

490

90

100=

U of Worcester

486

91

76

U of Hertfordshire

483

92

95

Staffordshire U

480

93=

105

Birmingham City U

479

93=

93

Edinburgh Napier U

479

95

112=

Bishop Grosseteste U

477

96

91

Leeds Trinity U

468

97

82=

U of Northampton

466

98

98

U of Salford

465

99

94

Glasgow Caledonian U

460

100

104

U of Sunderland

459

101=

92

U of Central Lancashire

457

101=

96

Queen Margaret U Edinburgh

457

101=

102

Teesside U

457

104

90

U of Brighton

454

105

123=

U of St Mark & St John, Plymouth

451

106

118

U of the West of Scotland

445

107

106

U of Greenwich

442

108

108

Anglia Ruskin U

439

109

99

U of the Arts London

437

110=

115=

Southampton Solent U

431

110=

89

York St John U

431

112=

114

Leeds Beckett U

429

112=

115=

Newman U, Birmingham

429

114

107

Canterbury Christ Church U

427

115

112=

U of South Wales

418

116

100=

St Mary’s U, Twickenham

415

117

115=

U of Westminister

407

118

109

Buckinghamshire New U

403

119

119

U of Cumbria

402

120

120

Lond South Bank U

400

121

110

U of Bedfordshire

393

122

111

Kingston U

383

123

127

U of East London

370

124

123=

U of Bolton

369

125

122

Wrexham Glyndwr U

358

126

n/a

U of Suffolk

320

127

125

London Metropolitan U

313

128

126

U of the Highlands and Islands

240