Cardiff University has risen three places in The Times’s Good University Guide for 2010.
The University came 26th out of 114 institutions for the academic year 2009/10, compared to 29th in 2009/09.
Student satisfaction for Cardiff came in at 77 percent, based on scores from the 2007 and 2008 National Student Survey.
Completion of courses came in at a respectable 92.4 percent but the percentage of students achieving ‘Good Honours’, which is defined as a 2:1 or a First, was just 66.8.
The University’s overall score in 2009 was 630, but for 2010 fell slightly to 628. In 2008 Cardiff’s score was 658. This year’s number one rated institution, Oxford University, achieved 1000 points in comparison.
gair rhydd (Issue 897) recently reported that, in the league tables released by The Guardian, Cardiff University had dropped down 11 places between 2008 and 2009. Similarly, figures from The Independent stated that Cardiff had gone down in the rankings, from 27th in 2008 to 37th in 2009.
However, the figures from The Guardian rated student satisfaction at Cardiff at 86 percent – a nine percent increase on The Times’s figure.
In The Times’s world university rankings released last year, gair rhydd (Issue 877) reported that Cardiff had slipped 34 places, losing its position as one of the top 100 universities worldwide.
In these most recent figures from The Times, Cardiff came well below many other Russell Group universities, considered to be the leading UK institutions, including Exeter, Bristol and Warwick.
Of the 20 Russell Group universities, defined as research-intensive universities, only Queen’s Belfast scored lower than Cardiff in the research quality ranking.
Some of the big achievers included Bath, Exeter, Leicester and Edinburgh.
For a detailed look at the individual subject tables for each institution visit http://extras.timesonline.co.uk/tol_gug/gooduniversityguide.php
