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Durham rises in Sunday Times top 10 universities list
(11 September 2006)
The education world has again acknowledged Durham University’s strengths in the annual Sunday Times University Guide which puts it up one place to 8th in the overall table.
Students, headteachers and the wider academic community give Durham high marks, which the paper combines with official university statistics to calculate its rankings. The accolade of Sunday Times University of the Year – awarded to Durham in 2005 – passes this year to Manchester University which is now the biggest in the country and came 15th in the overall table. Key factors in the Sunday Times guide are the satisfaction scores from the National Student Survey, and the paper’s own soundings among academics and headteachers. Durham’s headteachers’ rating is the 9th best in the UK, the students’ 11th and the academics’ 12th. Other key strengths for Durham are – in teaching - the High Completion (or Low Drop-out) rate (the UK’s 3rd best at 3.3 %), Entry Grades (6th) and High Quality Degrees, Firsts and 2:1 s (8th) and also its Research. In the opinion of headteachers and academics Durham is rated top in the UK for history and 5th for Physics. Durham has narrowed the gap between it and the 2005 and 2006 top-of-the table Cambridge to 14% from 19%, and stands only 14 Sunday Times points away from 6th-placed Warwick, one of its comparable teaching and research institutions, compared with 23 last year. In the North East, Durham is ranked 17 places above its closest regional neighbour Newcastle.
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