Times university league tables 2025

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Hello, feeling lazy and raining outside. Anyone got the pull out or access online beyond the paywall?
Interested in politics tables. Full disclosure, ds at Bath University just starting Politics and IR. Well, actually feeling a bit rough after night out during Freshers' week!
Just mild curiosity and supreme laziness!

I have the pull out but it doesn’t list by subject. Here’s the entry on Bath

Ooh fab - do you have Exeter and Bristol?

The online version gives these details for politics, which probably includes IR as it's not listed separately.

Here you go.

Thanks. Looks like Bath slipped a bit with politics unless reading it wrong! Ah well, he is there now!

This link seems to give free access - maybe it just liked me!

https://www.thetimes.com/uk-university-rankings/league-table

The 2nd column is overall rank of the University, still up there!

There's actually some interesting stats in the social inclusion stats - such as the private school and grammar school admissions.

I wouldn't have guessed that Edinburgh had a higher percentage of privately educated students than Oxbridge.

I wouldn't have guessed that Edinburgh had a higher percentage of privately educated students than Oxbridge.

Or that Durham has over 39 % private school students!

@HPFA I am sure we have met many years ago on mumsnet when both our children in year 7. I had a different name then. I was worried as I had chosen the school all the more MC parents avoided. You were very reassuring.
As it stands, it seems both our children are where they want to be!
If I have remembered wrongly, forgive me.
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No, I do remember. I'm delighted to know your son is thriving - there's always a fear in offering advice that the person will come back and say "I followed your advice and it was a disaster."

And grammar schools never happened in the end. The Tory leadership candidates are offering their return but I'm reasonably confident that even if they get into government they'll fail in the same way every other Tory PM has failed to "bring back grammars".

The whole discussion about schools and universities can sometimes forget about the individual. My DD is at a lower-ranked uni (also doing IR) than she could have scraped into. But she always liked being top of a lower set at school and simply wouldn't have thrived in an environment where she was looking around fearing that everyone was brighter than her.

How funny they have both gone into politics! So lovely to catch up! Thank you.

remember, regarding social inclusion, that Scotland has a different educational system so many more state educated young people than rUK. We also have our free tuition fees making Scottish universities more attractive than universities in the rUK. Hence why Scottish universities will show as having less privately educated students.

Same here, @HPFA - totally agree about the importance taking an individual student's wants and needs into account. So many parents are focussed on league tables and getting DC into a Russell Group university at all costs.

I have a DS at a mid-table-ranked university who could also have got into a 'better' one had he wanted to, based on A level grades. But he chose it based on a course he really liked the look of (uni is ranked much higher for his actual degree subject than it is overall, league table wise), a city he felt he'd enjoy living in, and an environment where he felt he'd feel confident to study. He is thriving where he is, and would possibly not have thrived in a higher ranked institution.