Revealed: The Russell Groups where students are unhappy with their uni’s mental health services

It’s news to absolutely no one that university mental health services can be absolutely god awful. And yet the student mental health crisis still rages on.

But how do the different Russell Group unis compare to each other when it comes to dealing with student mental health? And how well are support services signposted to students?

Well, the results of this year’s National Student Survey are out, a survey of 345,981 students across 520 universities and colleges in the UK, and one of the questions is focused on the effectiveness of university mental health services. Students were asked how well they thought mental health services were signposted to them and students could answer “very well”, “well”, “not very well” or “not at all well”.

At the top of the ranking with the best mental health services is Newcastle University. Of the 3,624 Newcastle students who answered the question, 1,536 said “very well” and 1,590 answered “well”. This means 82.26 per cent of all Newcastle students said they were happy with the signposting of the uni’s mental health support. Newcastle is closely followed by Imperial College London where 85.49 per cent of students said they were happy with the uni’s mental health services.

But at the bottom of the ranking is the University of Edinburgh where only 64.25 per cent of students said they were happy with the university’s mental health services. Of the 3,636 Edinburgh students who answered the question, 817 answered “very well” and 1,519 said “well”. The remaining 1,300 students felt negatively about their uni’s mental health services.

So, these are the Russell Group university mental health services, ranked from worst to best, according to students:

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24. University of Edinburgh – 64.25 per cent

23. University of Glasgow – 68.78 per cent

22. Cardiff University – 70.07 per cent

21. University of Bristol – 70.94 per cent

20. London School of Economics – 71.77 per cent

19. King’s College London – 72.87 per cent

18. University of Leeds – 73.06 per cent

17. University of Exeter – 75.15 per cent

16. University of Manchester – 76.95 per cent

15. Durham University – 77.11 per cent

14. University of Liverpool – 77.13 per cent

13. Queen’s University Belfast – 78.72 per cent

12. University of York – 79.17 per cent

11. University of Cambridge – 79.3 per cent

10. University of Southampton – 79.66 per cent

9. University of Birmingham – 80.9 per cent

8. University of Oxford – 80.9 per cent

7. University of Nottingham – 91.09 per cent

6. University College London – 81.93 per cent

5. Queen Mary University of London – 82.17 per cent

4. University of Warwick – 83.14 per cent

3. University of Sheffield – 84.45 per cent

2. Imperial College London – 85.49 per cent

1. Newcastle University – 85.49 per cent

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