Rating the United Kingdom's Architecture Schools as Researchers: preliminary 2009 results

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The Good Oil

Every two years we rate the world's architecture schools on their research performance. Results for our 2009 survey of the research performance of the British architecture schools are shown here. For information on what these numbers mean, read this page. Can't find your school? Find out why.

You can also read why British architecture academics are pissing their pants at any sort of assessment of their performance.

Other assessments

The United Kingdom has conducted research audits of its universities since 1992. You should check out their results at the Research Assessment Exercise 2008 (RAE 2008) homepage.

We have included two other indicators:

The Teaching Quality Information provides further information, albeit in a difficult format. Finally British students should check out Will I See My Tutor, a site so scathing that the UK universities are threatening legal action. Read it before it gets shut down.

Current rankings

University Median Research Score (2009) % of staff in the top quartile (2009) Guardian University Guide (2010) Good Universities Guide (2009)
Royal College of Art25100
University of Bath106797100
University of Cambridge96410098
University of Sheffield7527493
University College London54410096
Cardiff University44885100
University of Liverpool3397186
Oxford Brookes University3357185
Queen's University of Belfast3275880
University of Strathclyde3216786
University of Newcastle upon Tyne2357789
University of the West of England1326674
University of Westminster1286875
University of Greenwich14263
Kingston University12473
University of Nottingham1167195
Glasgow School of Art13074
University College for the Creative Arts11363
London Metropolitan University024
Liverpool John Moores University0224476
London South Bank University0163970
Manchester School of Architecture0157891
Sheffield Hallam University0157085
Northumbria University0148079
Robert Gordon University0136374
University of Kent0966
University of Ulster086691
University of Lincoln075477
Leeds Metropolitan University073277
University of Portsmouth0679
Nottingham Trent University006576
Edinburgh College of Art69
Birmingham City University6364
University of Brighton6082
University of Plymouth5573
University of East London5176
University of Huddersfield4271
De Montfort University3683
University of Dundee88
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