UWE drop down the rankings but nobody cares

UWE has dramatically fallen eight places in the latest Sunday Times University Guide, meaning we’re now nearly as rubbish as students from De Montfort University.

The guide scores unis on a range of areas including student satisfaction, research quality, entry points and graduate prospects to accumulate an overall score which is then used to measure universities against each other.

Come to UWE: honestly, it’s not that bad

Most of UWE’s scores place them just outside of the top 50, with only “succession of gaining firsts and 2:1s” (50^th) and the “services/ facilities spending” (44^th) managing to do better.

At first glance, it would appear UWE is a declining university, though it’s unlikely the league table will affect any current students.

For instance, UWE has a research quality score of 4.7%, placing them 67^th in the country but third year Criminology student Gary Mason told The Tab: “I don’t care who writes my text books, I just wish they were a bit cheaper!”

At least the nights out are fun

Reeve Boyd, a third year law student said he wasn’t worried about the news.

“It’s more informative to view the league table by subject anyway.”

The Sunday Times places UWE 57^th for law, which is a rise of 11 places and Law at UWE has also received a commendation from the Legal Practice Board.

Other figures on the league tables also don’t match up. UWE’s graduate prospects rank 52^nd in the country, but last year UWE ’s careers and employment service was rated the best in the country at the National Undergraduate Employability awards, partly for an innovative web-based jobs and placement service it runs with the local chamber of commerce.

Similarly UWE is one of just four universities recognised by the Forensic Science Society for the quality of courses in the subject. Clearly not everyone studying here should start panicking just yet.