| 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 | 97 | 94.0 | 60.1 | 13.6 | 10 | 561 | 8 | - |
| 2 | UCL | 91.8 | 91.3 | 86.5 | 69.0 | 11.2 | 10 | 476 | 8 | 85 |
| 3 | Cardiff | 89.9 | 100 | 95.5 | 79.5 | 12.4 | 9 | 398 | 6 | 92 |
| 4 | Heriot-Watt | 81.4 | 84.9 | 86.2 | 74.0 | 14.1 | 10 | 369 | 8 | 83 |
| 5 | Reading | 80.9 | 89 | 87.5 | 63.5 | 11.5 | 9 | 368 | 7 | 92 |
| 6 | Loughborough | 80.7 | 90.3 | 82.9 | 73.9 | 10.3 | 7 | 348 | 5 | 90 |
| 7 | Queen's, Belfast | 75.2 | 84.2 | 83.2 | 86.8 | 13.8 | 5 | 314 | 5 | 84 |
| 8 | Sheffield | 73.6 | 87.9 | 86.2 | 68.5 | 15.6 | 5 | 405 | 6 | 82 |
| 9 | Anglia Ruskin | 72.2 | 89.1 | 88.8 | 81.5 | 16.5 | 7 | 294 | 9 | 75 |
| 9 | South Wales | 72.2 | 76.1 | 80.1 | 77.5 | 17.4 | 3 | - | 9 | - |
| 11 | Coventry | 71.3 | 92.1 | 91.8 | 86.1 | 17.7 | 4 | 296 | - | - |
| 12 | Manchester | 69.5 | 85 | 84.6 | 68.3 | - | 9 | 354 | 7 | 70 |
| 13 | Birmingham | 68.9 | 88.9 | 88.0 | 64.4 | 19.9 | 6 | 385 | 7 | - |
| 13 | Sheffield Hallam | 68.9 | 91.1 | 89.3 | 71.0 | 14.9 | 4 | 310 | 5 | 84 |
| 15 | Portsmouth | 67.6 | 82.5 | 84.7 | 63.5 | 16.4 | 5 | 306 | 7 | 89 |
| 16 | Newcastle | 67.3 | 89.1 | 84.9 | 77.6 | 17.3 | 5 | 358 | 3 | 93 |
| 17 | Oxford Brookes | 67.2 | 86.5 | 83.2 | 75.4 | 15.3 | 4 | 333 | 5 | 83 |
| 18 | Edinburgh Napier | 67 | 93.5 | 94.9 | 78.3 | 18.9 | 3 | 337 | 7 | 72 |
| 19 | Nottingham | 66.3 | 82 | 74.1 | 64.7 | 14.7 | 8 | - | 8 | - |
| 20 | Nottingham Trent | 66.2 | 88.8 | 85.2 | 68.2 | 15.1 | 4 | 277 | 5 | 91 |
| 21 | Kingston | 65.1 | 71.6 | 76.4 | 58.3 | 12 | 9 | 290 | 6 | 74 |
| 22 | Liverpool | 63.5 | 91 | 86.3 | 75 | 18.1 | 5 | - | 6 | - |
| 23 | Glasgow Caledonian | 63.3 | 87.8 | 82.1 | 64.7 | 20.2 | 5 | 340 | 7 | 84 |
| 24 | Brighton | 61.2 | 84.2 | 83 | 62.7 | 18 | 4 | 287 | 8 | 77 |
| 25 | Plymouth | 60.7 | 94 | 95.3 | 75.7 | 15.4 | 4 | 252 | 3 | 76 |
| 26 | Northumbria | 60.2 | 79.3 | 79.8 | 62.2 | 16.9 | 4 | 338 | 5 | 82 |
| 27 | Liverpool John Moores | 60 | 79 | 75.1 | 70.5 | 17.6 | 3 | 332 | 8 | 74 |
| 28 | Ulster | 59.8 | 83.6 | 80.7 | 69.3 | 14.8 | 3 | 305 | 3 | 79 |
| 29 | Royal Agricultural University | 59.3 | 83 | 78.3 | 68.0 | 15.3 | 6 | 315 | 1 | 88 |
| 30 | Greenwich | 59.2 | 80.5 | 80.0 | 67.5 | 15.2 | 5 | 313 | 8 | 63 |
| 31 | Central Lancashire | 59.1 | 84.8 | 81.8 | 71.7 | 16.2 | 7 | 318 | 7 | 60 |
| 32 | Salford | 58.7 | 77 | 74.5 | 59.6 | 15.9 | 6 | 335 | 5 | 74 |
| 33 | Robert Gordon | 57.3 | 85 | 87.0 | 60.1 | 21.4 | 4 | 339 | 2 | 93 |
| 34 | Edinburgh | 57.2 | 69.3 | 74.7 | 46.9 | 19.6 | 8 | 426 | - | - |
| 35 | Westminster | 56.3 | 73.8 | 76.9 | 59.3 | 19.6 | 3 | 285 | 8 | 80 |
| 36 | UWE Bristol | 55.2 | 80.9 | 81.1 | 62.6 | 19.5 | 3 | 315 | 4 | 82 |
| 37 | Aston | 54.2 | 82.2 | 74.1 | 59.9 | 12.1 | 5 | 349 | 1 | 73 |
| 38 | Leeds Beckett | 50.7 | 73.2 | 80.4 | 61.5 | 17.2 | 3 | 260 | 7 | 66 |
| 39 | Birmingham City | 44.1 | 68.3 | 64.1 | 53.4 | 16.8 | 3 | 258 | 7 | 65 |
| 40 | London South Bank | 44 | 81.1 | 79.9 | 70.4 | 20.5 | 3 | 252 | 5 | 55 |
| 41 | Bolton | 32.8 | 59.8 | 63.5 | 42.6 | 15.5 | 2 | 229 | 2 | - |
| 42 | Southampton Solent | 32.5 | 56 | 66 | 42.4 | 19.8 | 4 | 230 | - | - |
| 43 | Glyndwr | 32 | 74 | 73.2 | 58.1 | 19.9 | 3 | - | 1 | - |
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