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Best UK Universities in the Guardian University Rankings 2025

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The Guardian University Rankings is one of the most famous university rankings. It specialises in ranking the UK universities and helps you assess and compare different universities based on a number of factors such as teaching quality, student satisfaction and graduate outcomes.

How does the Guardian rank universities?

The Guardian ranking is different from other university guides. It carefully combines scores for the 9 aspects of university life that matter most to students, such as satisfaction with course, teaching quality, the amount a university spends per student and the percentage of students who get a job after 6 months of graduation, etc.

Guardian University Ranking Factors

Entry standards (15%)
Student-staff ratios (15%)
Expenditure per student (5%)
Continuation (10%)
Teaching quality (10%)
Student satisfaction with feedback from teachers (10%)
Overall satisfaction of students (5%)
Value-added scores (15%)
Career prospects (15%)

The Guardian Rankings for subject areas

The Guardian University League Table also includes a list of 54 subjects so you can see which universities do well at teaching your preferred subject area.

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What are the top 10 UK universities in the Guardian University Rankings 2025?

According to the Guardian University Rankings, these are the top 10 UK universities in 2023. All these universities have achieved the most in the Guardian’s 100% ranking score.

University	Guardian Score/100
1- University of Cambridge	100
2- University of Oxford	97
3- London School of Economics and Political Science	95
4- University of St Andrews	94
5- Imperial College London	90
6- Loughborough University	89
7- Durham University	89
8- University of Bath	88
9- UCL (University College London)	86
10- University of Warwick	84

Source: The Guardian University Rankings 2025 table

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