| Rating | Name of institution | Guardian score /100 | Satisfied with course (%) | Satisfied with teaching (%) | Satisfied with feedback (%) | Student:staff ratio | Spend per student (FTE) | Average entry tariff | Value-added score /10 | Career after 6 mths |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Oxford | 100 | 84 | 90 | 78 | 9.2 | 10 | 628 | 8 | 83 |
| 2 | Lancaster | 91.2 | 100 | 96 | 93 | 9.5 | 7 | 498 | 8 | |
| 2 | St Andrews | 91.2 | 94 | 95 | 87 | 9.4 | 8 | 530 | 8 | 73 |
| 4 | Birmingham | 88 | 95 | 94 | 78 | 10.2 | 9 | 538 | 4 | 80 |
| 5 | Imperial College | 87 | 88 | 86 | 64 | 10.1 | 9 | 609 | 8 | 80 |
| 6 | UCL | 85.9 | 83 | 76 | 61 | 8.2 | 9 | 509 | 9 | 87 |
| 7 | Durham | 85.6 | 86 | 88 | 78 | 10.9 | 5 | 584 | 8 | 83 |
| 8 | Hertfordshire | 85.1 | 96 | 95 | 85 | 6.4 | 3 | 346 | ||
| 9 | Leicester | 83.5 | 88 | 89 | 74 | 6.2 | 9 | 416 | 5 | 79 |
| 10 | Strathclyde | 81.8 | 96 | 92 | 75 | 9.3 | 8 | 422 | 7 | 75 |
| 11 | Royal Holloway | 80.2 | 94 | 92 | 76 | 8.5 | 6 | 407 | 9 | 68 |
| 12 | Manchester | 79.1 | 91 | 90 | 73 | 11.8 | 8 | 568 | 4 | 75 |
| 13 | Keele | 78.8 | 97 | 97 | 84 | 7.6 | 4 | 368 | ||
| 14 | Liverpool | 77.4 | 95 | 87 | 75 | 10.1 | 10 | 448 | 7 | 63 |
| 15 | Exeter | 77.3 | 89 | 91 | 69 | 11 | 5 | 446 | 8 | 84 |
| 16 | Sussex | 76.4 | 96 | 90 | 80 | 9.1 | 3 | 427 | ||
| 17 | King's College London | 76.3 | 82 | 83 | 67 | 10.3 | 7 | 453 | 7 | 88 |
| 18 | Heriot-Watt | 75.6 | 89 | 93 | 83 | 9 | 10 | 399 | 1 | |
| 19 | Edinburgh | 74.3 | 81 | 85 | 56 | 11 | 519 | 7 | 81 | |
| 20 | Surrey | 73.9 | 92 | 91 | 83 | 12.6 | 5 | 439 | 7 | |
| 21 | Glasgow | 72.1 | 93 | 95 | 80 | 13.2 | 5 | 481 | 1 | 87 |
| 22 | Queen's, Belfast | 70.2 | 91 | 92 | 70 | 9.8 | 4 | 413 | 6 | 77 |
| 23 | Southampton | 69.9 | 86 | 84 | 70 | 11.4 | 4 | 474 | 8 | 71 |
| 24 | Bath | 69.7 | 93 | 93 | 66 | 12.5 | 4 | 488 | 4 | 77 |
| 25 | Bristol | 69.1 | 87 | 90 | 71 | 13.8 | 5 | 529 | 6 | 72 |
| 26 | Queen Mary | 66.6 | 97 | 91 | 76 | 9.4 | 4 | 372 | 4 | |
| 26 | Warwick | 66.6 | 86 | 85 | 58 | 13.4 | 7 | 540 | 4 | 82 |
| 28 | Sheffield | 65.5 | 94 | 92 | 72 | 14.1 | 4 | 473 | 6 | 71 |
| 29 | Cardiff | 63.6 | 93 | 88 | 66 | 12.1 | 5 | 445 | 6 | 70 |
| 30 | Nottingham | 62.5 | 80 | 84 | 67 | 11.1 | 8 | 473 | 5 | 63 |
| 31 | York | 62.3 | 95 | 96 | 73 | 14.1 | 4 | 445 | 5 | 62 |
| 32 | Leeds | 58.4 | 85 | 86 | 63 | 13.2 | 4 | 428 | 6 | 66 |
| 33 | Swansea | 56.8 | 91 | 89 | 60 | 10.2 | 3 | 349 | 6 | |
| 34 | Dundee | 55.2 | 95 | 90 | 68 | 12.7 | 2 | 373 | ||
| 35 | Portsmouth | 54.7 | 89 | 93 | 62 | 9.7 | 3 | 269 | ||
| 36 | Loughborough | 53.4 | 88 | 87 | 84 | 11.5 | 3 | 402 | 1 | 70 |
| 37 | West of Scotland | 52.4 | 88 | 77 | 60 | 5.8 | 5 | 260 | ||
| 38 | Nottingham Trent | 51.4 | 79 | 85 | 73 | 10.6 | 2 | 322 | 4 | |
| 39 | Central Lancashire | 51.3 | 83 | 87 | 74 | 11.6 | 3 | 326 | ||
| 40 | Hull | 50.8 | 96 | 91 | 72 | 20.7 | 2 | 350 | 3 | 77 |
| 41 | Kent | 49.7 | 96 | 89 | 59 | 12.1 | 3 | 364 | 7 | 61 |
| 42 | Salford | 47.6 | 83 | 82 | 70 | 19.3 | 2 | 312 | ||
| 43 | Aberystwyth | 35.1 | 88 | 88 | 56 | 20.8 | 3 | 310 | ||
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Note: Other providers that deliver courses in this subject area, but for whom there is insufficient data to calculate a ranking position, include St Mary's UC, Twickenham, Northumbria and Cambridge |
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