Latest rankings
We’re a top 30 university, and in the top 4 for ‘value-added’, in the Guardian University Guide 2024.
We are 32nd out of 130 UK universities in the Complete University Guide 2024.
Our Students' Union is 16th for Students’ Union (National Student Survey 2023, English Broad Discipline Institutions)
Number one university in the UK for Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTPs), the flagship Innovate UK programme.
We’re 56th in the global Times Higher Education Impact Rankings 2023 and ranked in the top 100 globally for nine of the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals assessed.
We have four subject areas in the top 10 in The Guardian University Guide 2024.
15th for international outlook in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2024
We’re in the top 100 globally for politics and international studies in the QS World University Rankings by Subject (2023)
We are 65th for Social Sciences in the THE World University Rankings by Subject 2023
47th for Law in THE World University Rankings by Subject 2023
Top 150 for Business and Economics in THE World University Rankings by Subject 2023
Top 200 for Arts and Humanities in the THE World University Rankings by Subject 2023
89% of our graduates are in employment or further study (Graduate Outcomes 2023)
Research excellence
Essex is a centre of world-leading excellence for the social sciences. Four social science subjects are in the UK top 10 for research quality (Grade Point Average, REF2021) and three are in the UK Top 10 for research power (Times Higher Education 2022). We have further outstanding strengths in science and health, and arts and humanities.
The four Essex subjects in the UK top 10 for research quality are - sociology, economics and econometrics, politics and international studies, and modern languages and linguistics.
The five Essex subjects in the UK top 10 for research power are – sociology, law, economics and econometrics, politics and international studies, and computer science.