The University of Nottingham has been ranked in the Top 30 UK universities by the Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2025.
Nottingham has risen two places to secure joint overall 30th place in the league table and associated guide, which provides prospective students and their families with essential information for making informed higher education choices, evaluating aspects from teaching quality and student experience to degree completion rates and graduate employment prospects.
The Times and Sunday Times says Nottingham's two-place rise in the main academic ranking is driven by significantly improved rates of student satisfaction, with its analysis of the latest National Student Survey showing growing contentment with the wider undergraduate experience and teaching quality.
In its graduate outcomes analysis, Nottingham secures a top 20 result, based on 83.3 per cent being in highly skilled jobs or further study within 15 months, and is ranked 22nd for research quality based on the latest Research Excellence Framework (REF 2021) and its strong reputation in research areas such as MRI and its work to establish a new £29.1 million national facility housing the UK's most powerful MRI scanner which will give researchers and doctors unprecedented insights into brain function.
More than 20 subjects at the University of Nottingham were featured in the Top 10 of the subject rankings including Building (2nd), East and South Asian Studies (3rd), Social Work (4th) and American Studies, Animal Science, Chemical Engineering and Liberal Arts (5th), with more than 35 subjects appearing in the Top 20 this year.
A fully searchable website with 70 subject tables, full interactive tables and additional features is now online on The Times and The Sunday Times: https://www.thetimes.com/uk-university-rankings A 96-page supplement will also be included with The Sunday Times on September 22.
