University rankings

Plymouth Marjon scores 13 percentage points below second-placed Roehampton, a gap larger than the entire spread between positions two and twenty on the list

Oxford makes £198m more from research grants than from tuition fees – while LSE, despite ranking third for research quality, brings in the least research income of any Russell Group university

Arts University Plymouth ranked worst for graduate prospects, with just 46 per cent of graduates finding success after leaving

Edinburgh follows at 30.4 per cent, meaning Scotland’s two most internationally renowned universities have the smallest proportion of Scottish students of any institution in the country

At Queen Mary, 5.8 per cent of first year students do not continue their studies – the highest dropout rate of any Russell Group university, and nearly three times the rate at Cambridge

Newcastle, Sheffield and Manchester also rank in the bottom five, with ratios above 13

LSE derives 38.8 per cent of its income from international tuition fees, nearly four times the proportion at Oxford and Cambridge

Cambridge is the only Russell Group university to achieve a perfect 1,000, leaving a 373-point gap between the highest and lowest institutions in the group

Five Russell Group universities scored below 80 per cent for graduate prospects – meaning one in five students at those institutions did not move into professional employment or further study

Southampton had 317 days of reserves at the same point, more than 13 times Nottingham’s figure, despite both being Russell Group universities