University of Manchester down four places in The Times UK university league table 2024
The university is now ranked in 27th place
The University of Manchester has dropped down four places in the UK University Rankings 2025 League table by the times, which ranks the university at 27th in the UK.
The university offers nearly 500 programmes, and is the most applied to university in the UK, having nearly 93,500 applications for 2023 entry.
Comparatively, the University of Salford is up 19 places this year to 72nd, and Manchester Metropolitan is now in the top 50, up 13 places to 46th.
The Times definitive ranking includes factors such as teaching quality, student experience, research quality, entry standards, graduate prospects, firsts/2:1s, continuation rate, student- staff ration and people and planet to make up its ranking.
The Times says that The University of Manchester has dropped outside of the top 25 in the league table this year due to its persistent low rates of student satisfaction.
In the 2025 league table, Manchester comes in at 126th for teaching quality satisfaction, and 120th for the wider experience in the latest National student survey analysis.
However, University of Manchester graduates were the second most targeted by the UK’s top employers in 23/24- such as Rolls-Royce and the BBC.
The Graduate Outcomes survey shows that 80.8 per cent of graduates were in highly skilled jobs or postgraduate study 15 months after leaving.
The University of Manchester is ranked 7th for research quality, and is 93rd in the social inclusion index overall. seventh among its 21 Russell Group peers in England and Wales in our social inclusion index, placing it just in the top 100 (98th).
Manchester Metropolitan University ranks 33rd in the UK for teaching quality, and 26th for wider student experience.
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Manchester Metropolitan has also been voted the UK’s top degree apprenticeship provider five years running in the Rate My Apprenticeship awards, working with more than 600 employers such as IBM and McDonald’s.
The University of Salford has risen 19 places in the main academic table, propelled by improved rates of student satisfaction and graduate prospects.
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