Manchester rises to 25th place in Sunday Times uni rankings

Moving on up


Moving up three places from the previous year, the University of Manchester was ranked 25th in the UK by The Complete University Guide.

The 2017 ranking saw Cambridge, Oxford and LSE take the top three spots, unsurprisingly as the top five were all non-movers.

Coming joint 25th with Manchester was Newcastle, up one place from last year and in 24th was Bristol, who dropped a disappointing nine places from the 2016 tables.

The rankings are decided on a scoring system of a variety of categories: entry standards, student satisfaction, research quality and graduate prospects. Despite a very high score for research quality, Manchester was let down by its poor student satisfaction score, leaving them an overall score of 773.

Rivals Leeds went up another three places to take the 16th spot in the table, leaving Manchester trailing behind, despite the fact that Manchester was much further ahead in the recent world university rankings.