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UK Universities 2001 / FT league tables
How to read the FT league tables
By Parminder Bahra
Published: April 5 2001 15:25GMT | Last Updated: April 6 2001 14:50GMT
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The FT 100 league table published today for the fourth year provides an employer orientated snapshot of university performance across 16 categories.

The figures have been drawn from published statistics, which have been collected by government and official agencies and from a survey of graduate recruiters run in conjunction with AGR.

The HESA data covers the 1998/99 academic year while the UCAS data is from the 1999/2000 academic year.

The various agencies played no part in compiling the table and cannot be held responsible for any of the inclusions drawn from the statistics. The FT 100 table measures performance on a relative - not an absolute - basis. The top university is awarded a maximum of 100 points and the rest receive a proportion of this figure. The table shows actual - rather than the relative - scores. The categories are weighted according to importance and the following are explanations of the criteria used to form the FT score.

  • A-level points: The average UCAS points held by first year students (HESA).

  • Applications to places: The total number of applications to degree courses against the total applicants accepted (UCAS).

  • Student/Staff (total) ratio: The average number of students to each member of the faculty (HESA).

  • Research: The average of the marks achieved during the most recent nation-wide research assessment exercise (RAE).

  • Teaching: The average of the marks achieved in the most recent teaching assessments (QAA, HEFCW and SHEFC).

  • 1st class: First class degrees as a percentage of all classified degrees (HESA).

  • Employment: A weighted combination of the percentage of graduates entering full-time employment and the universities targeted by graduate recruiters (HESA, FT-AGR).

  • Percentage of graduates entering professional training (HESA).

  • Percentage of graduates entering higher degree (HESA).

  • Percentage of postgraduate (research): Postgraduate research students as percentage of total students (HESA)

  • Percentage of postgraduate (taught): Postgraduate taught students as percentage of total students (HESA)

  • Income from industry: Total income from industry (HESA).

  • Income for Industry/FTE: Income per full-time equivalent faculty (HESA).

  • Income for research/FTE: Income per full-time equivalent faculty (HESA).

  • Computer expend.: Gross expenditure on central non-administrative non-library institutional computers (HESA).

  • Computer expend/FTES: The above figure on a per student basis (HESA).

  • Library expenditure: Expenditure on all library and learning resource centres (HESA).

  • Library expend./FTES: The above figure on a per student basis (HESA).

Sources:
Higher Education Statistics Agency - HESA
Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education - QAA
Universities and Colleges Admissions Service Research - UCAS
Research Assessment Exercise - RAE
Higher Education Funding Council for Wales - HEFWC
Scottish Higher Education Funding Council - SHEFC
Association of Graduate Recruiters - AGR

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Download the tables in pdf format - The class of 2001 and Leagues of their own

Rank
 University
2001
2000
  
FT Score
1
1
 University of Cambridge
81.13
2
2
 University of Oxford
77.67
3
3
 Imperial College of Science,Tech & Medicine
75.58
4
4
 University College London
70.97
5
5
 London School of Economics/Political Science
68.74
6
13
 School of Oriental and African Studies
63.79
7
8
 University of Bath
63.78
8
6
 University of Bristol
63.45
9
12
 University of Manchester Institute of Science
62.17
10
9
 University of Warwick
61.65
11
7
 University of Nottingham
61.63
12
14
 University of York
60.37
13
15
 University of Birmingham
60.28
14
18
 University of Manchester
60.19
15
10
 King's College London
59.96
16
11
 University of Edinburgh
58.51
17
25
 University of Essex
58.37
18
24
 University of Durham
58.11
19
26
 University of Leicester
57.81
20
17
 University of Glasgow
57.40
21
20
 University of St Andrews
57.20
22
28
 Queen Mary and Westfield College
56.88
23
23
 University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
56.61
24
19
 University of Southampton
56.49
25
16
 University of Leeds
56.49
26
27
 University of Lancaster
56.33
27
34
 University of Reading
56.00
28
21
 University of Sheffield
55.90
29
37
 University of Surrey
55.83
30
22
 Loughborough University
55.64
31
32
 University of Aberdeen
55.52
32
36
 University of Liverpool
55.26
33
30
 University of Sussex
54.90
34
29
 University of Wales, Cardiff
54.78
35
31
 Royal Holloway and Bedford New College*
54.65
36
38
 University of Strathclyde
54.41
37
33
 QueenÕs University of Belfast
53.51
38
39
 University of Dundee
53.39
39
44
 University of East Anglia
53.12
40
40
 University of Exeter
52.76
41
41
 University of Kent at Canterbury
52.30
42
47
 University of Aston in Birmingham
51.09
43
35
 Heriot-Watt University
51.05
44
42
 University of Wales, Aberystwyth
50.99
45
45
 University of Wales, Swansea
50.62
46
43
 University of Hull
50.54
47
48
 University of Keele
50.16
48
49
 University College of North Wales, Bangor
50.10
49
46
 City University
49.97
50
51
 Brunel University
49.37
51
50
 University of Stirling
49.06
52
52
 University of Bradford
47.70
53
53
 University of Ulster
47.18
54
56
 Goldsmiths College
45.34
55
54
 University of Wales, Lampeter
45.30
56
57
 University of Salford*
45.30
57
55
 Robert Gordon University
45.22
58
58
 University of Westminster
44.59
59
60
 University of Hertfordshire
42.90
60
59
 Oxford Brookes University
42.85
61
65
 University of Portsmouth
42.41
62
61
 University of Greenwich
42.26
63
63
 Napier University
41.82
64
69
 Kingston University
41.44
65
64
 Nottingham Trent University
41.28
66
88
 University of Abertay Dundee
41.21
67
67
 Liverpool John Moores University
40.97
68
62
 Sheffield Hallam University
40.81
69
72
 University of Plymouth
40.71
70
66
 De Montfort University
40.61
71
68
 University of the West of England, Bristol
40.45
72
82
 Leeds Metropolitan University
40.33
73
70
 Manchester Metropolitan University
39.93
74
71
 Middlesex University
39.91
75
80
 University of Sunderland
39.44
76
78
 University of East London
39.23
77
74
 University of North London
39.18
78
73
 University of Northumbria at Newcastle
39.13
79
76
 South Bank University
39.07
80
77
 University of Huddersfield
38.72
81
87
 Glasgow Caledonian University
38.61
82
85
 University of Central Lancashire
38.52
83
86
 Anglia Polytechnic University
38.49
84
81
 University of Glamorgan**
38.39
85
75
 University of Brighton
38.35
86
83
 University of Central England in Birmingham
38.08
87
92
 Coventry University
37.80
88
79
 Staffordshire University
37.50
89
94
 University of Lincolnshire and Humberside
37.43
90
90
 London Guildhall University
37.03
91
91
 University of Wolverhampton
37.02
92
96
 University of Derby
36.88
93
89
 University of Luton
36.56
94
84
 Thames Valley University
36.44
95
97
 Bournemouth University
35.98
96
95
 University of Teesside
35.95
97
93
 University of Paisley
35.82
* Staff FTE data not available for current year. 1997/98 data used
** A-level points data not available for current year. 1999/00 data used
 
  A-level points Applications to places Student/staff (total) ratio
1 Cambridge LSE Imperial
2 Oxford Bristol UCL
3 LSE City Cambridge
4 Imperial Warwick Oxford
5 Bristol Nottingham KCL
6 Edinburgh York QMWC
7 Nottingham Bath Bristol
8 Warwick KCL Dundee
9 Sheffield Umist Edinburgh
10 Bath Reading Newcastle-upon-Tyne
 
Research Teaching 1st class
1 Cambridge Cambridge Cambridge
2 Oxford York Imperial
3 Imperial Loughborough Oxford
4 LSE Oxford Umist
5 UCL Kingston Bristol
6 Warwick Warwick LSE
7 KCL SOAS UCL
8 Bristol Imperial Bath
9 Bath West of England, Bristol SOAS
10 SOAS Sheffield Warwick
 
  Employment % of graduates entering prof. training % of graduates entering
higher degree
1 Imperial Cambridge Essex
2 Aston Lampeter Imperial
3 Umist Oxford SOAS
4 Surrey Hull Glasgow
5 Salford St Andrews Oxford
6 Bournemouth Bangor St Andrews
7 Bradford Cardiff Cambridge
8 City Aberystwyth QMWC
9 Heriot-Watt Lancaster Lancaster
10 Napier Dundee LSE
 
  % postgraduate (research) % postgraduate (taught) % overseas students
1 Cambridge Leicester LSE
2 UCL City SOAS
3 Oxford Strathclyde Essex
4 SOAS SOAS Umist
5 Imperial LSE Imperial
6 Birmingham Surrey UCL
7 Bristol Bath Kent at Canterbury
8 LSE Westminster RHBNC
9 Reading Warwick Surrey
10 Surrey Reading Bath
 
  Income from
industry/FTE		 Income for
research/FTE		 Computer
expenditure/FTES
1 Robert Gordon Imperial Bath
2 Umist UCL Abertay Dundee
3 Aston Oxford SOAS
4 Heriot-Watt Cambridge Durham
5 Nottingham KCL Edinburgh
6 Loughborough Southampton Warwick
7 Leeds Glasgow Manchester
8 Bath York LSE
9 Southampton Edinburgh Newcastle-upon-Tyne
10 Imperial Birmingham UCL
 
  Library expenditure/FTES    
1 Oxford 6 UCL
2 Cambridge 7 Abertay Dundee
3 SOAS 8 Hertfordshire
4 Imperial 9 Newcastle-upon-Tyne
5 LSE 10 Cardiff