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 |
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1 | Royal College of Music | 100 | 89 | 91.2 | 70.7 | 10.3 | 10 | 335 | 8 | 97 |
2 | Edinburgh | 99.4 | 91 | 90.2 | 75.8 | 12.5 | 10 | 464 | 7 | - |
3 | Manchester | 99.1 | 91 | 93 | 84.7 | 13.2 | 6 | 520 | 5 | 78 |
4 | Surrey | 98.8 | 90.9 | 93.0 | 76.9 | 9.9 | 8 | 490 | 5 | 83 |
5 | Oxford | 95.9 | 94.1 | 96.5 | 76.1 | 19.5 | - | 500 | 6 | 94 |
6 | Guildhall School of Music and Drama | 95 | 83 | 85.8 | 69.2 | 7.4 | 9 | 388 | 6 | 96 |
7 | Royal Academy of Music | 94.3 | 90 | 90 | 75.8 | 9 | 6 | 342 | 8 | 88 |
8 | Sheffield | 93.1 | 100 | 94.3 | 86.0 | 13.5 | 4 | 403 | 8 | - |
9 | Birmingham | 93 | 88.1 | 92.8 | 66.5 | 14.9 | 10 | 448 | 5 | 85 |
10 | Southampton | 91.9 | 83.8 | 91.8 | 68.3 | 8.1 | 7 | 404 | 8 | 76 |
11 | Durham | 91.3 | 67 | 85.2 | 71.3 | 11.2 | 4 | 573 | 6 | 80 |
12 | Cambridge | 90.7 | 82 | 92.5 | 63.4 | 17 | 10 | 534 | 5 | 80 |
13 | Nottingham | 90.5 | 86 | 96.0 | 76.4 | 12.3 | 8 | 423 | 5 | 75 |
14 | Birmingham City | 88.2 | 85.9 | 93.5 | 88.4 | 13.6 | 8 | 340 | 5 | 79 |
15 | Glasgow | 88.1 | 89.9 | 89.9 | 70.5 | 13.9 | 5 | 510 | 3 | 80 |
15 | Sussex | 88.1 | 85 | 86.5 | 73.7 | 8.2 | 9 | 377 | 7 | - |
17 | Newcastle | 86.3 | 84.2 | 88.8 | 74.4 | 14 | 9 | 387 | 7 | 68 |
18 | Brunel | 85.6 | 98.0 | 99.2 | 90.2 | 11 | 6 | 323 | 6 | 52 |
19 | Bangor | 84.7 | 91.1 | 91.5 | 87.6 | 10.2 | 2 | 411 | 3 | 79 |
20 | Royal Holloway | 84.6 | 82 | 89.9 | 69.1 | 12.4 | 6 | 489 | 4 | 66 |
21 | Royal Welsh College | 84.5 | 78.2 | 83.0 | 57.4 | 8.4 | - | 333 | 6 | 98 |
22 | Bristol | 83.8 | 74 | 86.7 | 62.2 | 14.3 | 6 | 496 | 7 | 74 |
23 | York | 83.7 | 83 | 87.5 | 72.4 | 17.8 | 8 | 412 | 7 | 73 |
24 | King's College London | 83.5 | 75.8 | 88.9 | 60.5 | 11.3 | 4 | 498 | 6 | - |
25 | City | 82.9 | 93 | 94.0 | 89.4 | 12.6 | 6 | 432 | 1 | 67 |
26 | Goldsmiths | 82.8 | 90 | 91.0 | 63.7 | 15.9 | 4 | 384 | 9 | 77 |
26 | Queen's, Belfast | 82.8 | 89.1 | 93.0 | 79.8 | 12.7 | 6 | 371 | 6 | 66 |
28 | Trinity Laban Conservatoire | 81.9 | 78 | 86.8 | 55.4 | 10.1 | 8 | 349 | 6 | 80 |
29 | Leeds | 81.5 | 80 | 86.5 | 72.7 | 15.2 | 4 | 474 | 7 | 65 |
30 | Hull | 81.1 | 96 | 93.5 | 80.4 | 11.4 | 6 | 370 | 4 | 61 |
31 | West London | 80.4 | 85.0 | 89.1 | 78.3 | 9.2 | 5 | 292 | 4 | 78 |
32 | Edinburgh Napier | 80.3 | 89.1 | 91.5 | 79.4 | 14.3 | 3 | 408 | 7 | 56 |
33 | Keele | 80 | 92 | 90.3 | 80.8 | 14.2 | 3 | 379 | 5 | 71 |
33 | Middlesex | 80 | 84 | 92.2 | 73.9 | 14.1 | 8 | 267 | 7 | 71 |
35 | Royal Conservatoire of Scotland | 79.8 | 82.2 | 82.2 | 57.3 | 10.8 | 7 | 418 | 3 | 83 |
36 | Cardiff | 79.3 | 79.8 | 87.5 | 71.2 | 14.3 | 6 | 426 | 5 | 71 |
37 | Ulster | 78.9 | 90 | 92.0 | 86.5 | 11.3 | 3 | 289 | 6 | 48 |
38 | Gloucestershire | 77.6 | 92.9 | 94.0 | 86.1 | 21.3 | 4 | 307 | 8 | - |
39 | Royal Northern College of Music | 76.2 | 77.8 | 81.9 | 67.5 | 12.2 | 6 | 322 | 4 | 91 |
40 | SOAS | 75.3 | 73.3 | 82.1 | 62.4 | 9 | 5 | 372 | - | - |
41 | Manchester Met | 74.6 | 84.2 | 88.5 | 82.6 | 15.6 | 3 | 324 | 8 | 61 |
41 | Oxford Brookes | 74.6 | 91 | 96.5 | 87.2 | 25.6 | 2 | 313 | 10 | - |
43 | Huddersfield | 73.9 | 92.1 | 94.5 | 82.6 | 15 | 3 | 325 | 3 | 73 |
44 | East London | 73.8 | 61 | 73.5 | 70.5 | 20.1 | 10 | 288 | 9 | - |
44 | Chichester | 73.8 | 85 | 87.2 | 69 | 14 | 3 | 333 | 8 | 65 |
46 | Brighton | 73.3 | 92 | 94.0 | 86.6 | 18.3 | 6 | - | 8 | 45 |
46 | Derby | 73.3 | 98 | 99 | 94.0 | 18.9 | 5 | 302 | 2 | - |
48 | Plymouth | 72.9 | 79 | 90.2 | 75.4 | 15.8 | 7 | 269 | 9 | 48 |
49 | Coventry | 72.7 | 70.7 | 84.9 | 76.4 | 9.5 | 4 | 307 | 8 | 48 |
50 | Bath Spa | 72.6 | 94 | 92.5 | 75.6 | 18.5 | 6 | 313 | 4 | 73 |