Student Experience Survey 2017: the safest UK universities

By Anonymous (not verified), 23 March, 2017

View the overall results of the 2017 Student Experience Survey

Feeling safe while studying is a top consideration for many prospective students when they start thinking about where to go to university. Enjoying a sense of security, comfort and happiness during your time at college can make the difference between staying on and getting a good degree or deciding to look elsewhere or even drop out altogether.

As part of the Times Higher Education Student Experience Survey 2017, more than 15,000 students were asked the extent to which they agreed that their university offered “good security”. The table below shows how the UK’s institutions perform on this question.

Leo Blanchard, an English literature student at the University of Surrey, which comes top in this category, says in a blog that “one of the best things about Surrey is how safe it is. I have never felt personally in danger during my time here, even when walking home later at night.”

The security results in full are below.

Rank	University name	Security composite
1	University of Surrey	87.3
2	Edge Hill University	86.6
3	University of Bath	85.8
4	Lancaster University	85.6
5	University of East Anglia (UEA)	85.5
6	Loughborough University	85.5
7	Bangor University	84.7
8	Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh	84.5
9	Heriot-Watt University	84.5
10	Falmouth University	84.5
11	University of Sheffield	84.4
12	Liverpool Hope University	84.3
13	Aberystwyth University	84.0
14	University of Exeter	83.9
15	University of St Andrews	83.6
16	Durham University	83.5
17	University of York	83.4
18	University of Chester	83.3
19	Harper Adams University	82.6
20	Royal Veterinary College	82.6
21	St George’s, University of London	82.5
22	Imperial College London	82.3
23	University of Reading	82.0
24	University of Oxford	81.6
25	University of Leeds	81.5
26	Queen’s University Belfast	81.4
27	University of Cambridge	81.4
28	Newcastle University	81.4
29	University of Warwick	81.2
30	University Campus Suffolk	81.0
31	University of Dundee	80.9
32	Ulster University	80.8
33	Royal Holloway, University of London	80.7
34	University of Southampton	80.5
35	University of Bristol	80.5
36	Northumbria University	80.3
37	Trent University	80.0
38	University of Central Lancashire	79.9
39	University of Derby	79.9
40	Swansea University	79.8
41	University of Winchester	79.8
41	University of Worcester	79.8
43	University of Nottingham	79.7
44	Norwich University of the Arts	79.7
45	Aston University	79.3
46	Leeds Beckett University	79.1
47	University of Lincoln	78.9
48	Robert Gordon University	78.8
49	University of Glasgow	78.6
50	Buckinghamshire New University	78.4
51	University of West London	78.3
52	University of Leicester	78.3
53	University of Stirling	78.2
54	Keele University	78.1
55	Liverpool John Moores University	77.7
56	University of Birmingham	77.7
57	Coventry University	77.7
58	Goldsmiths, University of London	77.7
59	Newman University	77.6
60	University of Bradford	77.5
61	Edinburgh Napier University	77.5
62	Brunel University London	77.3
63	Soas, University of London	77.3
64	De Montfort University	77.2
65	Bournemouth University	77.1
66	University of Edinburgh	77.0
67	Bath Spa University	77.0
68	Arts University Bournemouth	76.9
69	University of Kent	76.9
70	University of Liverpool	76.8
71	Cardiff Metropolitan University	76.8
72	University of Hull	76.7
73	University of Cumbria	76.7
74	Oxford Brookes University	76.7
75	University of Gloucestershire	76.3
76	University of Portsmouth	76.2
77	University of the West of England, Bristol (UWE)	76.1
78	University of Aberdeen	76.1
79	University of East London	76.0
80	Birmingham City University	75.7
81	King’s College London	75.7
82	Sheffield Hallam University	75.7
83	University of Sussex	75.7
84	University of Huddersfield	75.7
85	University College London (UCL)	75.6
86	York St John University	75.5
87	University of Strathclyde	75.5
88	University of Manchester	75.3
89	Manchester Metropolitan University	75.3
90	University of Hertfordshire	75.3
91	University of the Arts London	75.3
92	Cardiff University	75.2
93	Canterbury Christ Church University	75.2
94	Plymouth University	74.7
95	University of Sunderland	74.5
96	University of Wolverhampton	74.2
97	Anglia Ruskin University	73.9
98	University of Greenwich	73.8
99	Teesside University	73.7
100	University of Westminster	73.5
101	London South Bank University	73.2
102	University of Salford	73.1
103	University of Essex	73.0
104	Southampton Solent University	72.8
105	University of Bedfordshire	72.7
106	University of Abertay Dundee	72.6
107	University of South Wales	72.5
108	University of Northampton	71.7
108	University of the West of Scotland	71.7
110	Queen Mary, University of London	71.3
111	University of Roehampton	71.3
112	London Metropolitan University	71.0
113	Staffordshire University	70.5
114	London School of Economics and Political Science	70.0
115	Glasgow Caledonian University	69.6
116	University of Brighton	69.4
117	University of Wales Trinity Saint David	69.3
118	Kingston University	67.5
119	University for the Creative Arts	66.3
120	City, University of London	65.8
121	The Open University	64.8
122	Middlesex University	63.3