Rating the United Kingdom's Architecture Schools

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The Good Oil

Every five 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, which measure not just research, but overall quality:

The Teaching Quality Information provides further information, albeit in a difficult format. Finally British students should check out the remnants of Will I See My Tutor, a site that terrified Britain's lazy and complacent dons {professors} so much they had it shut down in 2007.

Current rankings

University Median Research Score (2009) % of staff in the top quartile (2009) Guardian University Guide (2012) Good Universities Guide (2009)
Royal College of Art 25 100 – –
University of Bath 10 67 99 100
University of Cambridge 9 64 99 98
University of Sheffield 7 52 75 93
University College London 5 44 100 96
Cardiff University 4 48 81 100
University of Liverpool 3 39 71 86
University of Strathclyde 3 21 53 86
Queen's University of Belfast 3 27 69 80
Oxford Brookes University 3 35 74 85
University of Newcastle upon Tyne 2 35 64 89
University of Westminster 1 28 52 75
University of the West of England 1 32 61 74
University of Greenwich 1 42 48 63
Kingston University 1 24 49 73
University of Nottingham 1 16 67 95
University College for the Creative Arts 1 13 46 –
Glasgow School of Art 1 30 56 –
Leeds Metropolitan University 0 7 36 77
Liverpool John Moores University 0 22 44 76
Nottingham Trent University 0 0 44 76
Robert Gordon University 0 13 44 74
London South Bank University 0 16 49 70
University of Ulster 0 8 50 91
University of Portsmouth 0 6 51 79
Sheffield Hallam University 0 15 54 85
University of Lincoln 0 7 57 77
London Metropolitan University 0 24 60 –
Northumbria University 0 14 66 79
University of Kent 0 9 68 –
Manchester School of Architecture 0 15 69 91
De Montfort University – – 30 83
University of East London – – 47 76
University of Brighton – – 52 82
Birmingham City University – – 55 64
University of Huddersfield – – 57 71
University of Dundee – – 61 88
University of Plymouth – – 62 73
Edinburgh School of Architecture – – 75 –