Exeter retains its place in the Top 10 universities in the UK

The grass is looking greener in the South as Exeter is ranked 9th in the Times and Sunday Times University League Table for 2017.

The totals were based on 10 indicators- teaching quality, student experience, research quality, entry standards, graduate prospects, firsts/2:1s, completion rate, student-staff ratio, services/facilities spend. Out of a maximum 1000 points, Exeter scored 807, placing us in joint 9th place with Lancaster University.

Despite dropping two places from last year, we’re ranked well above Bristol (19th) and KCL (24th). Notably for English, History, Geography and Classics, we’re the 5th best place to study in the UK. We also have a completion ratio of 96% and 84.8% of graduates leave with a first or 2:1. Very pleasing indeed.

The top five of Cambridge, Oxford, St Andrews, Durham and Imperial, remain unchanged from last year.

On the Times website, the bespoke page for Exeter states:

“Nine out of 10 students who applied to Exeter in 2015 received a conditional offer of a place, one of the highest rates in the UK, uncommonly so for an elite Russell Group university. Part of the reason is that since joining the Russell Group in 2012, the university has been attracting better-qualified applicants, as well as expanding rapidly.

The undergraduate intake was 40% bigger in 2015 than three years earlier, adding more than 1,700 places. Firmly established in our top 10, it is also among the top 200 universities in the world in QS World University Rankings and placed higher still in the Times Higher Education equivalent.

It has invested £380m on the main Streatham campus, close to the centre of Exeter, one of the most attractive settings at any university. The Living Systems Institute opened in 2016, but future development plans are centred on the St Luke’s Campus, a mile from the main Streatham campus, which houses the medical school, as well as the highly rated department of sport and health sciences and the graduate school of education.”