Rankings of universities in the United Kingdom

Three national rankings of universities in the United Kingdom are published annually by the Complete University Guide and The Guardian, as well as a collaborative list by The Times and The Sunday Times. Rankings have also been produced in the past by The Daily Telegraph and the Financial Times.

British universities rank highly in global university rankings with eight featuring in the top 100 of all three major global rankings as of 2024: QS, Times Higher Education, and ARWU. The national rankings differ from global rankings with a focus on the quality of undergraduate education, as opposed to research prominence and faculty citations.

The primary aim of domestic rankings is to inform prospective undergraduate applicants about universities based on a range of criteria, including: entry standards, student satisfaction, staff–student ratio, expenditure per student, research quality, degree classifications, completion rates, and graduate outcomes. All of the league tables also rank universities in individual subjects.

Until 2022, Times Higher Education compiled a "Table of Tables" which combined the results of the three primary league tables. The top-five ranked universities in the United Kingdom are Oxford, Cambridge, LSE, St Andrews, and Imperial, with Durham, Bath, and UCL frequently appearing in the top-10.

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