UK Universites Ranking 1999-2003 By Anyu Gao Final Rank Institution 2003 Rank 2002 Rank 2001 Rank 2000 Rank 1999 rank Average rank1 Cambridge 2 21 1 1.22 Oxford 1 13 3 1.63 IC 3 32 2 24 LSE 4 58 4 4.25 UCL 6 115 5 5.46 Bristol 9 74 9 5.8 Warwick 8 68 7 5.88 Bath 5 410 15 6.89 York 7 810 12 7.410 St Andrews 11 107 10 7.611 Edinburgh 14 156 8 8.612 Nottingham 13 912 11 913 Durham 10 1316 18 11.414 Birmingham 15 1713 16 12.215 Manchester 15 1218 20 1316 SOAS 22 2714 6 13.8 Newcastle 17 1617 19 13.818 KCL 18 2015 17 1419 Loughborough 12 1421 26 14.620 Lancaster 21 2119 14 1521 Sheffield 25 1820 13 15.222 Royal Holloway 19 2224 27 18.423 Southampton 28 2426 21 19.824 Glasgow 27 2823 22 2025 Aberdeen 20 1926 36 20.226 UMIST 23 3128 24 21.227 Leeds 35 2922 23 21.828 Essex 30 2529 29 22.629 Reading 29 3031 25 23 Leicester 24 2634 31 2331 Cardiff 25 3430 35 24.832 Queens, Belfast 32 2333 43 26.233 Queen Mary 40 3925 28 26.434 Surrey 36 3238 30 27.235 Stirling 36 3241 33 28.4 Dundee 31 3742 32 28.437 Exeter 34 3537 40 29.238 East Anglia 39 4032 37 29.639 Aston 33 3634 49 30.440 Sussex 41 4434 38 31.441 Liverpool 42 3840 39 31.842 Strathclyde 36 4143 45 3343 Hull 50 4339 34 33.244 Keele 44 4646 41 35.445 Kent 45 4244 47 35.646 Swansea 49 4545 46 3747 Heriot-Watt 47 4849 42 37.248 Aberystwyth 43 4947 48 37.449 City 51 4751 44 38.650 Oxford Brookes 48 5152 53 40.8 Brunel 46 5053 55 40.852 Bangor 55 5650 51 42.453 Ulster 57 5255 54 43.654 Bradford 59 5454 52 43.855 Goldsmiths College 62 6348 50 44.656 Plymouth 52 5356 64 4557 Northumbria 53 5664 62 4758 Robert Gordon 61 5960 59 47.859 Lampeter 59 7057 58 48.860 West of England 63 5861 63 49 Nottingham Trent 56 5565 69 4962 UWIC, Cardiff 54 6566 66 50.263 Sheffield Hallam 63 6163 65 50.464 Brighton 68 6857 60 50.665 Salford 72 7460 57 52.666 Kingston 65 7262 66 5367 Portsmouth 67 6269 68 53.268 Westminster 74 6966 61 5469 Hertfordshire 58 5973 83 54.670 Napier 84 6673 56 55.871 Abertay Dundee 70 6468 82 56.872 Manchester Metro 69 7569 72 5773 Surrey Roehampton 73 7673 73 5974 Glasgow Caledonian 78 7771 71 59.475 De Montfort 80 8667 70 60.6 Coventry 87 6779 73 61.277 Sunderland 71 7176 91 61.878 Glamorgan 66 8185 80 62.479 Wolverhampton 80 8477 77 63.6 Gloucestershire 79 8179 79 63.681 Luton 75 7283 93 64.682 Central Lancashire 87 7879 81 6583 Anglia 94 9273 67 65.2 Staffordshire 86 8175 84 65.2 Leeds Metropolitan 76 7886 86 65.286 Liverpool John Moores 83 8577 83 65.687 Huddersfield 77 8984 78 65.688 Middlesex 84 8882 85 67.889 Greenwich 96 9081 76 68.690 Bournemouth 82 8090 96 69.691 Paisley 91 9291 75 69.892 Central England 90 8789 88 70.893 Teesside 89 9287 87 7194 South Bank 93 9592 79 71.895 Lincoln 92 9196 97 75.296 Derby 97 9893 92 7697 London Metropolitan 98 98.591.5 92.5 76.198 UWCN, Newport 95 9695 95 76.2 East London 99 9994 89 76.2100 Thames Valley 100 10197 94 78.4