University guide 2014: league table for politics

Politics

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	93	94	65	11.3		595	8	74
2	St Andrews	99.7	89	93	71	18.1	9	524	10	92
3	Cambridge	99.2	98	97	75	16.5		558	8
4	London School of Economics	98.3	87	87	76	10.7	9	550	8	90
5	UCL	91.5	78	87	66	15.5	10	557	8	80
6	Durham	85.9	88	87	74	19.8	8	511	9	81
7	Surrey	85.2	96	93	86	17.5	8	404	6
8	Warwick	82.8	89	91	68	17.7	9	512	7	82
9	King's College London	82.3	91	88	69	18	8	475	9	70
10	Birmingham	82	86	92	73	22.1	10	416	8	76
11	Bristol	80.5	80	91	71	16.1	8	476	7	75
12	York	79.8	86	92	72	17.3	8	472	7	74
13	Queen Mary	77.9	86	86	76	17.8	10	439	5	75
14	Dundee	76.1	95	93	80	20.9	8	384	9	60
15	Buckingham	74.9	97	94	87	15.7	3	296
16	UEA	74.2	88	95	68	16.9	7	410	6	71
17	Lancaster	73.9	94	93	73	16.3	7	436	5	71
18	Bath	73.7	87	91	61	20.1	7	472	9	74
19	Nottingham	73.5	90	92	73	18.7	7	437	8	71
20	Kent	73.1	95	93	78	14.1	6	385	5	68
21	Sheffield	72.5	95	95	77	23.1	4	485	8	70
22	Leicester	71.1	93	94	68	18.9	8	407	6	59
23	Newcastle	69.9	95	92	68	21.4	6	417	6	79
24	SOAS	69.7	78	88	55	13.9	8	478	8	62
25	Exeter	68.5	89	94	68	21.9	5	483	7	71
26	Cardiff	64.1	82	90	62	20.1	4	462	7	80
27	Royal Holloway	64	87	91	77	19.5	3	412	6	64
28	Essex	63.3	92	91	71	16.3	5	413	3	61
29	Edinburgh	63	75	83	47	18.9	10	498	8	58
30	Brunel	62.6	93	91	86	19.9	7	347	1	60
30	Glasgow	62.6	80	86	67	20.4	8	465	4	69
32	Stirling	62	90	93	78	20.2	4	412	6	55
33	Loughborough	61.3	79	86	72	19.2	7	376	6	67
34	Strathclyde	59.9	91	95	74	25.2	8	449	8	41
35	Manchester	59.2	78	89	58	18.9	7	470	3	68
36	UWE Bristol	59.1	93	96	80	23.6	3	321	7	57
37	Plymouth	58	92	91	64	20.6	8	289	6	67
38	Leeds	56.4	88	91	66	25.2	5	434	7	64
39	Huddersfield	56	95	97	92	29.3	4	296
40	Aberdeen	55.8	89	89	65	26.6	4	443	8	66
41	Aston	55.5	89	89	76	18.9	3	369	4	51
42	Hull	55.4	85	92	70	17.2	4	380	2	56
43	Southampton	55	85	90	60	19.9	6	419	7	51
44	Portsmouth	54.8	93	95	75	22.6	6	303	3	61
45	Aberystwyth	54.4	90	92	71	20.4	3	333	5	64
46	Nottingham Trent	54.3	86	91	80	25.3	4	282	8	52
46	Queen's, Belfast	54.3	90	90	65	19.4	6	391	4	54
46	Sussex	54.3	90	90	66	21.6	4	419	6	48
49	City	53.6	70	77	64	18.6	9	396	3
50	Keele	51.4	89	90	68	21.1	3	330	5	64
51	Oxford Brookes	51.1	85	90	75	18.3	5	351	3	48
52	Coventry	49.5	81	93	80	24.9	4	284	5
53	Westminster	48.5	84	86	73	23.4	3	330	7	53
54	Winchester	46.6	87	91	70	22.9	2	307	4
55	Reading	46.4	87	89	68	21	4	366	2	55
56	Swansea	46.2	80	88	58	27.5	4	361	7	75
57	Bradford	46.1	79	89	67	19.5	6	303	2
58	Canterbury Christ Church	45.7	90	93	74	29	2	277	7
59	Brighton	45.6	66	83	72	17.9	3	298
60	London Met	45.3	94	96	66	27.3	1	228	7	69
61	Sheffield Hallam	44.9	94	83	72	25.6	5	279
62	Liverpool	44.8	85	86	58	20.7	7	418	3	50
63	Greenwich	44.6	93	92	74	24.1	3	254	4
64	Lincoln	44.5	90	90	74	27	3	304	3
65	East London	44.4	87	92	76	28.2	4	243
66	Leeds Met	43.6	83	89	76	25.3	3	247	5	46
67	Goldsmiths	41.5	83	86	68	18.4	3	348	1	56
68	Kingston	41.2	84	86	70	24.3	3	295	4	61
69	Northumbria	41.1	83	91	70	20.7	6	354	1	50
70	Chester	39.2	82	86	74	25.9	3	280
71	De Montfort	38.5	94	93	76	30.7	3	281	3	56
72	Central Lancashire	36.7	80	82	65	27.9	6	349
73	Ulster	36	88	85	72	20.9	3	269	4	38
74	Salford	35.9	84	83	63	21.6	3	296	3
75	Northampton	33.7	80	82	74	25.5	4	254
76	West of Scotland	33.1				18	3		1	37
77	Manchester Met	30.2	90	84	65	24.9	3	309	3	38
78	Middlesex	30	77	80	67	28.7	6	255
Note: Other providers that deliver courses in this subject area, but for whom there is insufficient data to calculate a ranking position, include Worcester, Bournemouth and East London