We were named University of the Year at the Times Higher Education Awards in November 2018.
We strive for excellence and we're excelling in everything we do. We are Gold rated in the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF 2017), top 15 for the sixth year running in The National Student Survey (2018, overall student satisfaction, English mainstream universities*), and top 25 for research quality in The Times and The Sunday Times Good University Guide 2019 where we're also ranked 29th overall.
The 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF 2014) assesses research quality and impact at UK universities.
Our REF 2014 results show we are:
We have students from more than 140 countries and over a third of our students are from outside the UK. This makes us the most international mainstream university in the UK outside London (The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2018).