Mean score 1 University of Oxford 2.6411 2 Open University 2.8553 3 University of Kent 3.0296 4 University of Exeter 3.1337 A high score 5 Leeds Beckett University 3.1475 suggests a more 6 Loughborough University 3.1476 negative impact 7 The University of Warwick 3.1492 8 St Mary's University, Twickenham 3.1504 9 Bath Spa University 3.1511 10 University of Bath 3.1648 11 Newcastle University 3.1676 12 Plymouth University 3.2048 13 University College London 3.2234 14 University of Reading 3.2338 15 City University London 3.2392 16 Durham University 3.2508 17 University of Leeds 3.2551 18 Aberystwyth 3.2775 19 Anglia Ruskin University 3.2786 20 University of Portsmouth 3.2968 21 University of the West of England 3.3006 22 University of Surrey 3.3079 23 The University of York 3.3163 24 Goldsmiths, University of London 3.3166 25 University of Westminster 3.3319 26 University of Strathclyde 3.3361 27 University of Salford 3.341 28 Bournemouth University 3.3491 29 University of Wolverhampton 3.3503 30 University of Bristol 3.3516 31 University of Chester 3.3571 32 University of Southampton 3.3747 33 The University of Edinburgh 3.3905 34 University of Glasgow 3.4024 35 Swansea University 3.4066 36 The University of Sheffield 3.4133 37 Manchester Metropolitan University 3.4137 38 Sheffield Hallam University 3.4146 39 The University of Nottingham 3.4513 40 University of South Wales 3.4538 41 University of Cumbria 3.4542 42 Heriot-Watt University 3.4571 43 The University of Manchester 3.4692 44 University of Brighton 3.4704 45 University of Roehampton 3.4788 46 University of Sussex 3.4867 47 Nottingham Trent University 3.4913 48 University of Greenwich 3.4968 49 Teesside University 3.5069 50 De Montfort University 3.5127 51 University of Wales Trinity Saint David 3.52 52 Leeds Trinity University 3.5214 53 Ulster University 3.5263 54 SOAS, University of London 3.5314 55 University of Hertfordshire 3.5357 56 London South Bank University 3.5453 57 King's College London 3.5472 58 Southampton Solent University 3.5489 59 University of Leicester 3.5582 60 University of Bradford 3.5657 61 Cardiff University 3.5903 62 University of Bedfordshire 3.5943 63 University of East Anglia 3.6128 64 University of Huddersfield 3.6144 65 University of Essex 3.627 66 Liverpool John Moores University 3.6374 67 The University of Hull 3.6444 68 University of Central Lancashire 3.6514 69 University of Liverpool 3.6647 70 Northumbria University 3.6824 71 University of Birmingham 3.6908 72 University of Aberdeen 3.7321 73 Oxford Brookes University 3.7576 74 Kingston University 3.8339 75 Birmingham City University 3.8476 76 London Metropolitan University 3.8935 77 Coventry University 3.9024 78 Queen's University Belfast 3.9978