Today saw the publication of The Complete University Guide 2014, one of the many university ranking guides, and the start of the university ranking season in the UK.
Comparing against the 2013 university league tables, especially last year’s Guide, there are two new entrants in the top 10 UK institutions for Computer Science:
| Ranking | 2013 | ||
| 1. | ↔ | University of Cambridge | (1st) |
| 2. | ↑ | Imperial College London | (3rd) |
| 3. | ↓ | University of Oxford | (2nd) |
| 4. | ↑ | University of Glasgow | (9th) |
| 5. | ↓ | University of Bristol | (4th) |
| 6. | ↑ | University of Exeter | (15th) |
| 7. | ↑ | University of Birmingham | (16th) |
| 8. | ↓ | University College London | (6th) |
| 9. | ↑ | University of York | (10th) |
| 10. | ↓ | University of Warwick | (8th) |
| (full table) |
As always, the rankings for Welsh institutions in Computer Science were of particular interest to me:
| Ranking | 2013 | ||
| 27. | ↑ | Cardiff University | (35th) |
| 32. | ↓ | Swansea University | (30th) |
| 35. | ↓ | Aberystwyth University | (34th) |
| 58. | ↓ | Bangor University | (49th) |
| 76. | ↓ | University of Glamorgan | (63rd) |
| 89. | ↓ | Cardiff Metropolitan University | (88th) |
| 93. | ↓ | Glyndŵr University | (72nd) |
N.B. no data was available for Swansea Metropolitan University or the University of Wales Trinity Saint David (who merged in 2012), or for the University of Wales, Newport (who recently merged with the University of Glamorgan to form the University of South Wales.
The Complete University Guide’s methodology for the subject league tables are based on four measures: Student Satisfaction, Research Assessment, Entry Standards and Graduate Prospects. To qualify for inclusion in a subject table, a university has to have data for at least two of the four measures; a blank in the Entry Standards and Graduate Prospects columns is not a zero score but rather denotes that no valid data were available.
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