| Rank 2016 | Institution | Guardian score/100 | Satisfied with course | Satisfied with teaching | Satisfied with feedback | Student to staff ratio | Spend per student/10 | Average entry tariff | Value added score/10 | Career after 6 months |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cambridge | 100 | 91.7 | 93.5 | 80.7 | 10.1 | 10 | 565 | 7 | 80 |
| 2 | Oxford | 98.2 | 94.8 | 95.7 | 76.3 | 10 | 10 | 553 | 7 | 82 |
| 3 | Leicester | 84.2 | 94.4 | 94.3 | 83.5 | 10.5 | 8 | 391 | 9 | 76 |
| 4 | Durham | 83.2 | 94.9 | 94.0 | 75.4 | 13.6 | 6 | 528 | 7 | 84 |
| 4 | Sussex | 83.2 | 88.2 | 89.4 | 76.7 | 6.8 | 10 | 396 | 10 | 66 |
| 6 | St Andrews | 82.2 | 87.8 | 90.8 | 79.9 | 11.5 | 5 | 508 | 7 | 86 |
| 7 | UCL | 77.6 | 84.7 | 90.2 | 69.4 | 7.7 | 9 | 479 | 6 | 72 |
| 8 | Southampton | 77.2 | 89.9 | 94.5 | 77.8 | 9.5 | 5 | 423 | 7 | 75 |
| 9 | Warwick | 76.6 | 92.1 | 95.1 | 81.7 | 10.8 | 6 | 456 | 6 | 74 |
| 10 | Exeter | 76 | 94.4 | 95.0 | 78.8 | 16.3 | 5 | 469 | 7 | 81 |
| 11 | Surrey | 72.4 | 89.8 | 91.8 | 74.5 | - | 9 | 433 | 3 | - |
| 12 | Coventry | 71.8 | 98.9 | 98.4 | 92.0 | 15.8 | 3 | 309 | 9 | - |
| 13 | Northumbria | 70.8 | 93.0 | 92.6 | 83.8 | - | 3 | 347 | 9 | - |
| 14 | Bristol | 68.2 | 77.4 | 88.1 | 68.8 | 11.4 | 6 | 460 | 8 | 75 |
| 15 | Kent | 67.6 | 95.2 | 92.3 | 76.7 | 12.1 | 5 | 347 | 8 | 71 |
| 16 | Queen's, Belfast | 67.4 | 93.7 | 97.3 | 88.4 | 15.2 | 5 | 386 | 4 | 66 |
| 16 | King's College London | 67.4 | 82.6 | 86.0 | 70.7 | 10.3 | 10 | 436 | 4 | 68 |
| 18 | Lancaster | 66.7 | 86.3 | 90.3 | 69.1 | 12.1 | 7 | 442 | 4 | 81 |
| 19 | Birmingham | 66.5 | 91.0 | 94.4 | 80.1 | 13.9 | 6 | 398 | 5 | 80 |
| 20 | Leeds | 66.4 | 87.7 | 90.7 | 75.0 | 11.4 | 7 | 426 | 5 | 71 |
| 21 | Newcastle | 65.6 | 89.0 | 94.4 | 84.4 | 14.9 | 4 | 415 | 4 | 80 |
| 22 | Bath | 63.4 | 94.3 | 95.5 | 73.8 | 20.1 | 4 | 445 | 8 | 83 |
| 23 | Nottingham | 63.2 | 81.1 | 87.7 | 67.7 | 10.2 | 6 | 391 | 6 | 75 |
| 24 | Edinburgh | 62.2 | 84.9 | 88.9 | 62.6 | 14.2 | 7 | 487 | 6 | 71 |
| 24 | UEA | 62.2 | 94.3 | 94.7 | 71.9 | 15.2 | 3 | 390 | 9 | - |
| 26 | Manchester | 61.5 | 85.0 | 90.1 | 72.9 | 10 | 8 | 406 | 5 | 63 |
| 27 | Stirling | 61 | 93.2 | 92.3 | 82.2 | 12.3 | 3 | 413 | 3 | - |
| 28 | York | 60.5 | 84.2 | 91.8 | 75.9 | 10.5 | 7 | 419 | 3 | 68 |
| 29 | Queen Mary | 59.2 | 82.2 | 88.3 | 70.3 | 10.3 | 9 | 355 | 7 | 59 |
| 30 | Sheffield | 59.1 | 90.1 | 91.9 | 73.9 | 14 | 4 | 425 | 5 | 70 |
| 31 | SOAS | 58.5 | 84.3 | 87.7 | 62.3 | 9.9 | 6 | 410 | 7 | 63 |
| 32 | Liverpool | 57.1 | 80.4 | 83.4 | 75.7 | 10.2 | 6 | 391 | 5 | 68 |
| 33 | Swansea | 57 | 81.8 | 82.6 | 82.0 | 11.3 | 3 | 304 | 8 | 76 |
| 34 | Glasgow | 56.4 | 82.1 | 90.0 | 57.8 | 10.8 | 4 | 478 | 4 | 69 |
| 35 | Edinburgh Napier | 56.2 | 94 | 91.7 | 83.6 | 12.9 | 3 | 347 | - | - |
| 36 | Reading | 55.3 | 86.5 | 88.1 | 69.1 | 10 | 5 | 372 | 4 | 66 |
| 37 | Bangor | 53.7 | 92.6 | 91.7 | 87.1 | 12.4 | 2 | 304 | 2 | 73 |
| 38 | Manchester Met | 53.1 | 79.9 | 90.1 | 88.7 | 10 | 5 | 316 | 6 | 50 |
| 39 | Hull | 52.4 | 93.2 | 93.5 | 71.4 | 12 | 3 | 322 | 3 | 67 |
| 40 | Cardiff | 51.4 | 77.8 | 82.4 | 64.9 | 13.1 | 7 | 395 | 5 | 68 |
| 41 | Aberdeen | 50.1 | 82.5 | 89.4 | 67.2 | 13.5 | 4 | 448 | 6 | 58 |
| 42 | Essex | 50 | 97.3 | 87.8 | 75.1 | 12.5 | 3 | 316 | 6 | 61 |
| 43 | Westminster | 49.3 | 82.8 | 84.3 | 75.1 | 11.1 | 4 | 298 | 8 | 56 |
| 44 | Aberystwyth | 48.7 | 87.9 | 92.0 | 68.0 | 12.5 | 3 | 370 | 2 | 77 |
| 45 | Aston | 48.3 | 85.2 | 86.3 | 74.5 | 14.6 | 6 | 348 | 6 | 60 |
| 46 | Heriot-Watt | 47.3 | 79.2 | 84.3 | 70.6 | 16.1 | 9 | 452 | 2 | 57 |
| 47 | Oxford Brookes | 46.9 | 79.1 | 92.5 | 83.6 | 17.7 | 2 | 359 | 6 | - |
| 48 | Portsmouth | 46.3 | 90.8 | 89.8 | 74.9 | 13.7 | 5 | 261 | 7 | 59 |
| 49 | Roehampton | 46 | 75.4 | 82.8 | 74.8 | 12.9 | 5 | 276 | 6 | - |
| 50 | Hertfordshire | 45.6 | 93.9 | 87.2 | 72.3 | 10.8 | 3 | 329 | 8 | 42 |
