Loughborough Uni named University of the Year in Sunday Times University Guide 2019

Loughborough University has been named as University of the Year in The Times and Sunday Times University Guide 2019.

The university has also climbed to fifth place in the league table out of 132 UK universities, which is up two places from last year.

Loughborough has been awarded the uni of the year title because of its teaching, graduate employment rates, student experience, and (of course) its successes in sport.

Across all national newspaper league tables, Loughborough University is also the Midlands' top-ranked university for 2019.

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Commenting on Loughborough’s success, Alastair McCall, editor of The Sunday Times Good University Guide, said: "Loughborough has been shortlisted nine times in the 20-year history of our University of the Year award and now it has won for the second time. It must be doing something right!

“In fact, it is doing quite a lot right. Long rated highly by students for satisfaction with teaching quality and their university experience, Loughborough has found a formula that makes its graduates among the most sought after in the land.

“It is so much more than a sporting powerhouse, although it deserves huge recognition for having the best sports facilities this side of the Atlantic. Science, technology, engineering and maths (Stem) students make up a greater proportion of the student body than at any other institution and it is in academic and industrially-potent areas like this that Loughborough also excels and makes an impact far beyond its sumptuous campus.”

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