Is Loughborough the UK’s greatest structure college? New uni rankings revealed

The Guardian College Information, published earlier this month, ranked the College of Cambridge as the highest establishment for the topic, based mostly on metrics together with scholar to workers ratio, cash spent per scholar and proportion of scholars persevering with into their second 12 months of research.

It’s the fourth 12 months in a row Cambridge has taken the highest spot.

The Good University Guide from The Instances and The Sunday Instances, revealed on Friday, rated Loughborough College in first place, forward of second-placed Cambridge.

Its rating is predicated on components together with instructing high quality, scholar expertise and analysis high quality.

The Instances famous in its overall assessment of Cambridge that it’s launching a brand new diploma in 2024 referred to as Design Tripos – a merger of the research of arts and sciences underpinned by a drive to handle international challenges, together with local weather change and poverty. It has been co-developed by its departments of structure, engineering, and supplies science and can be ‘an try to steadiness gender disparity in these fields’.

In a press release on its Instances rating – the place it was ranked tenth throughout all universities – Loughborough stated: ‘The college’s workers, college students and alumni proceed to make an actual distinction the world over […] analysis from the College of Structure, Constructing and Civil and Engineering helps to information the nation by way of the RAAC (Bolstered Autoclaved Aerated Concrete) disaster.’

For structure, Cardiff College was second in The Guardian’s listing and rated in third place by The Instances.

Juliet Davis, head of college on the Welsh College of Structure at Cardiff stated the division had a big refurbishment of its constructing, which was re-opened in March 2022. ‘Consequently, the scholars have model new services together with newly geared up workshops, an exhibition corridor and wider vary of studios,’ she stated.

‘We place a variety of emphasis on scholar expertise and we’ve focussed loads on getting our college students again into our constructing post-pandemic and re-learning the advantages of working in a studio.

‘We’ve additionally obtained an unbelievable staff of devoted workers who work collectively and energetically to ship excellence in all our programs.’

The controversy-hit Bartlett college of structure at College School London (UCL) was ranked in third place by The Guardian for structure however solely 14th by The Instances, regardless of being named as the general greatest college by the latter.