All the Russell Group unis that got worse this year in The Times university rankings 2024
I don’t know what went wrong for Cardiff this year
Be warned: these are the Russell Group unis that could officially be entering their flop era in 2024, according to the latest The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide.
Several supposedly prestigious Russell Group unis fell down several places in this year’s UK uni league table.
The Times explains the logic behind its Good University Guide here.
Here are all the Russell Group unis that The Times thinks are getting worse in 2024:
University of Oxford
Oxbridge was bumped down The Times’s league table this year by the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). It dropped one place to the number three spot.
University of Cambridge
Cambridge also fell one place. It’s now number five in The Times’s ranking, below LSE, the University of St Andrews and Oxford.
Imperial College London
Although Imperial College London topped the Daily Mail’s league tables this year, it fell one place in The Times’s ranking.
University College London (UCL)
The Times rated Durham University much higher than it did last year. So, while Durham rose to fifth place, UCL fell to seventh.
University of Exeter
What a disastaaah for Exetaaah. The notoriously rah Uni of Exeter has slipped two places in The Times’s rankings. The Uni’s graduate prospects are slightly lower than they were last year.
University of Glasgow
The Uni of Glasgow fell four spots to sixteenth place. The Times now only considers it the third best uni in Scotland, after St Andrews and the University of Aberdeen.
University of Edinburgh
These Uni of Edinburgh students seem to be smiling through the pain of dropping in the league tables
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The University of Aberdeen’s unusually high score meant that the Uni of Edinburgh four places. Ouch. It’s now tying for seventeenth place with the Uni of York.
University of York
The Times ranked the Uni of York two places lower down than it did last year. The Uni’s student to staff ratio of 14.2 is quite high for a Russell Group uni.
University of Southampton
The Uni of Southampton has sunk two places in The Times’s league tables this year. The average UCAS score of its first years is 153, which is a lot lower than some of the other Russell Group unis.
University of Manchester
After slipping a huge four places, the Uni of Manchester is now tying for 27th place with the University of Leicester. Only 80.8 per cent of the 2022-2023 grads have found high-skilled jobs or graduate-level further study courses.
University of Leeds
This Uni’s deeply mediocre research quality score of 57 per cent hasn’t helped its ranking. The Uni of Leeds fell five places and is now ranked 29th in the UK.
Cardiff University
I don’t know what’s gone wrong with Cardiff Uni in 2024, but it fell a massive seven places in The Times’s rankings. It’s now just 32nd on the league table.
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