Rankings

UK university rankings

UK universities ranked by QS World 2025, graduate salary, NSS satisfaction, and course breadth.

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Rank by:QS Rank 2025 Average Salary Student Satisfaction Number of Courses46 universities

#	University	Avg Salary	Satisfaction	Courses	TEF
1	Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine	£42,021	89%	67	-
2	University of Oxford	£31,683	94%	229	-
3	University of Cambridge	£32,946	95%	32	-
4	University College London	£32,768	93%	392	-
5	University of Edinburgh	£29,645	91%	343	-
6	The University of Manchester	£27,598	94%	274	-
7	King's College London	£31,360	93%	118	-
8	The London School of Economics and Political Science	£38,297	91%	42	-
9	University of Bristol	£30,038	93%	177	-
10	The University of Warwick	£30,504	95%	164	-
11	University of Glasgow	£26,721	93%	897	-
12	University of Southampton	£30,707	93%	292	-
13	University of Birmingham	N/A	N/A	0	-
14	The University of Leeds	£28,942	92%	238	-
15	University of Durham	£31,014	96%	92	-
16	University of St Andrews	£30,657	98%	660	-
17	The University of Sheffield	£27,873	96%	89	-
18	University of Nottingham, the	£30,375	94%	161	-
19	Queen Mary University of London	£30,939	92%	131	-
20	University of Newcastle Upon Tyne	£27,921	91%	125	-
21	Lancaster University	N/A	N/A	0	-
22	The University of Bath	£33,084	94%	106	-
23	The University of Liverpool	£27,495	94%	198	-
24	University of Exeter	£29,343	94%	159	-
25	The University of Reading	£27,653	94%	280	-
26	University of York	£28,910	92%	189	-
27	Cardiff University	£27,812	93%	143	-
28	Queen's University Belfast	N/A	N/A	0	-
29	Loughborough University	£31,000	93%	111	-
30	University of Aberdeen	£26,593	93%	365	-
31	University of Sussex	£27,725	94%	155	-
32	Heriot-Watt University	£30,949	90%	96	-
33	University of Strathclyde	£27,885	96%	219	-
34	The University of Surrey	£29,837	95%	146	-
35	The University of Leicester	£27,220	95%	115	-
36	Swansea University	£26,604	93%	210	-
37	The University of East Anglia	£27,517	94%	325	-
38	Brunel University London	£28,533	90%	222	-
39	The University of Kent	£28,286	90%	161	-
40	Oxford Brookes University	N/A	N/A	0	-
41	University of Dundee	£26,583	92%	161	-
42	Aston University	£28,521	92%	60	-
43	University of Stirling	£26,347	90%	176	-
44	The University of Essex	£26,882	95%	154	-
45	Bangor University	£24,607	96%	172	-
46	University of London	N/A	84%	34	-