Today saw the publication of The Complete University Guide 2015, signalling the start of the UK university ranking season.
Comparing against the 2014 university league tables — especially last year’s Guide — there has been some movement, with two new entrants in the top 10 UK institutions for Computer Science:
| Ranking | 2014 | ||
| 1. | ↔ | University of Cambridge | (1st) |
| 2. | ↔ | Imperial College London | (2nd) |
| 3. | ↔ | University of Oxford | (3rd) |
| 4. | ↑ | University of St Andrews | (15th) |
| 5. | ↑ | Durham University | (14th) |
| 6. | ↑ | University College London | (8th) |
| 7. | ↔ | University of Birmingham | (16th) |
| 8. | ↓ | University of Bristol | (5th) |
| 9. | ↓ | University of Exeter | (6th) |
| 10. | ↓ | University of Glasgow | (4th) |
| (full table) |
As always, the rankings for Welsh institutions in Computer Science were of particular interest to me; Cardiff University retained the top spot, with a broadly similar performance to last year (albeit with some movement down the table for the top three):
| Ranking | 2014 | ||
| 31. | ↓ | Cardiff University | (27th) |
| 39. | ↓ | Swansea University | (32nd) |
| 46. | ↓ | Aberystwyth University | (35th) |
| 64. | ↑ | Glyndŵr University | (93rd) |
| 67. | ↔ | University of South Wales | (-) |
| 70. | ↓ | Bangor University | (58th) |
| 89. | ↔ | Cardiff Metropolitan University | (89th) |
N.B. no data was available for the University of Wales Trinity Saint David.
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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