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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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University guide 2014: league table for modern languages and linguistics

Modern languages and linguistics
RatingName of institutionGuardian score /100Satisfied with course (%)Satisfied with teaching (%)Satisfied with feedback (%)Student:staff ratioSpend per student (FTE)Average entry tariffValue-added score /10Career after 6 mths
1 Cambridge 100 94 97 87 10.8 10 574 7 78
2 Oxford 87.9 90 94 74 10 9 575 8 70
3 Durham 82 93 94 79 13.8 6 552 8 87
4 Southampton 78.8 93 95 76 7.6 8 461 7 74
5 King's College London 77.2 86 91 68 9 10 445 7 69
6 St Andrews 75.4 81 90 71 12.8 7 504 8 75
7 UCL 75.2 80 89 65 6.3 9 488 5 73
8 Sunderland 73.4 91 92 84 6.4 7 293
9 Bath 71.5 94 94 71 12.1 7 471 7 75
10 Leicester 71.4 83 87 77 11.9 10 424 4 73
11 Edinburgh 70.2 76 89 59 16.9 10 489 7 80
12 Coventry 69.7 95 96 85 13.4 3 284 10
13 Birmingham 69.5 87 93 75 10.5 7 427 5 70
14 Kent 68.5 91 91 78 12.2 7 365 7 73
14 Queen Mary 68.5 84 91 73 13.7 9 387 8 69
16 Leeds 68.4 87 90 71 13.8 10 441 5 64
16 Northumbria 68.4 99 97 87 19 3 358 9 62
18 Aston 67.3 86 87 68 12.7 8 390 5 84
18 Surrey 67.3 88 89 75 8.3 5 412 6
20 Warwick 65.5 93 95 78 17.6 5 480 5 68
21 Exeter 65.1 93 96 78 21.1 4 459 7 75
22 Nottingham 63.4 86 92 71 11.4 7 430 5 66
23 UEA 61.9 91 88 69 16.3 8 393 8 62
24 Chester 61.6 91 96 71 14.6 2 317 8 81
25 Glasgow 61.4 88 93 68 14.9 5 486 3 71
26 SOAS 60.2 86 89 60 11.4 5 428 8 65
27 Newcastle 59.1 82 88 76 19.5 4 428 5 76
28 York 58.5 94 96 79 18.6 6 441 4 61
29 Heriot-Watt 58.3 90 87 78 15.7 9 409 1 75
30 Bristol 57.8 77 89 52 14.8 6 456 6 76
31 Sussex 57.7 80 90 61 6.7 6 417 8 49
32 Reading 57.2 84 91 77 14.2 2 357 3 80
33 Sheffield 56.8 89 92 69 14.5 4 441 4 67
34 Roehampton 55.2 83 90 72 11.8 3 291
35 Essex 54.5 86 86 79 16.1 3 372 8
36 Manchester 53.9 78 85 65 11.7 8 432 4 54
37 Queen's, Belfast 52.9 80 87 76 13.8 5 386 4 56
38 Westminster 52.6 71 79 78 10.4 5 301 5 67
39 Royal Holloway 52.3 87 92 71 16.9 3 381 7 61
40 Swansea 51.9 87 88 72 17.9 2 355 4 78
41 Hull 50.5 84 91 81 17.4 3 350 3 65
42 Sheffield Hallam 48.6 88 87 66 18.2 6 315
43 Lancaster 48.4 81 88 71 16.2 3 413 1 78
44 Strathclyde 48.2 80 90 70 19.5 3 448 60
45 Liverpool 48 80 88 66 14.6 6 404 3 55
46 Middlesex 45.4 76 81 67 31.9 5 10
47 Greenwich 45.1 92 90 78 19.1 3 269
48 Cardiff 44.6 75 85 65 20.1 4 413 4 63
49 Salford 44.1 67 70 64 13.3 4 333 6 68
50 Aberystwyth 43.5 92 92 72 22.3 3 353 1 74
51 London Met 43.4 70 69 63 10.7 3 259 8
52 Portsmouth 42.5 83 79 67 21.1 5 308 8 50
53 Bangor 41.8 83 86 64 15 3 338 2 61
54 Edinburgh Napier 41.2 88 89 64 17.8 3 355
54 UWE Bristol 41.2 71 83 67 20.9 7 320 9 45
56 Plymouth 39.6 81 86 64 23 5 302
57 Oxford Brookes 39.5 48 74 61 20.7 4 355 8
58 Manchester Met 36.2 72 80 76 16.2 2 322 2 60
59 Central Lancashire 36.1 73 73 67 19.7 6 318 2
60 Leeds Met 32.9 88 80 74 27.2 3 267 6
61 Ulster 32.1 78 82 67 12.8 4 291 3 39
62 Nottingham Trent 32 70 73 59 21.4 4 299 3 66
63 Liverpool John Moores 30 63 69 64 2 6 61
64 York St John 28.5 79 85 55 3 291 3

Note: Other providers that deliver courses in this subject area, but for whom there is insufficient data to calculate a ranking position, include East London, Kingston, West of Scotland, Aberdeen, Dundee, Stirling and Trinity Saint David

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