Feelings hurt as Sheffield suffers in Guardian rankings

Uni finishes 38th in 2014 league table


Hundreds of Sheffield students are today cancelling their post-exam celebrations after having to scroll down a little further than they would have liked on the Guardian University League table.

While an improvement on last year’s abysmal 42nd, this year’s 38th place finish puts Sheffield above only two other Russell Group Universities, Queen’s Belfast and Liverpool and even leaves us languishing below old Polytechnic Oxford Brookes.

The League table, which ranks universities based on results from the National Student Survey as well as categories such as student to staff ratio and career prospects, charts the successes of Britain’s 119 universities.

Cambridge finished top of the pile this time around

James Colclough, rugby union club captain, has voiced his concern about his future employment prospects as a result, saying ‘I thought I was a shoe in after picking philosophy for a degree, now I have my doubts’

Even worse, we finished 7 places below Leeds. Now that is something worth crying about.