Best universities

Knowing how much time you will have to interact with members of staff at your prospective university is an important factor to be aware of. 

You will want to know how much time you’ll have talk about your progress, what opportunities you’ll be given to ask questions during lectures and how much participation there will be in discussions. 

Based on the answers of more than 200,000 students across the US in the 2019 US Student Survey, we’ve put together a list of the universities that provide the best opportunities to interact with faculty. 

Times Higher Education has produced a student-focused ranking to determine the best universities for teaching across Europe. 

Instead of placing a focus on research output and quality, as many international university rankings do, the 2019 Europe Teaching Rankings determines the best universities for teaching quality and learning opportunities for students. 

Looking for a prospective university requires balancing a number of elements: teaching quality, career prospects, location, size and the opportunity for socialising. While it is crucial that you place teaching quality and course content at the top of your priority list, it is also important that you take into account a university’s social scene. 

We’ve all been there. You’ve got three essays due next week, a pile of reading to do, you need to call your mum and somehow cobble together a nutritious dinner for tonight. Your to-do list is as long as your arm and yet somehow you still manage to find yourself watching cat videos on the internet. 

But what if you decided to head to a university that is surrounded by perfect distractions for doing anything other than studying? Which universities make it easy to slip out of the library and towards something much more fun?

Times Higher Education has once again released the Asia-Pacific University Ranking to reflect the region’s growing strength in the higher education sector.

THE’s Asia-Pacific University Ranking 2019 analysed universities across East Asia, South-east Asia and Oceania. The overall ranking features more than 300 universities from 13 different nations.

Universities are certainly getting into the #Christmas spirit by sharing images of decorations across campus on Instagram to mark the end of another semester. 

Giant Christmas trees festooned with baubles and tinsel are springing up all over campus and we are very much here for it. Nothing gets us in the mood for Christmas faster than pictures of fairy lights, festive treats and snowy scenes. To get you into the Christmas spirit we've put together some of the best images that we've seen on Instagram. 

MBA, MIM, MIF – these acronyms can seem quite confusing when you’re first looking into studying business at university. How do you know what they stand for and how do you know which university is going to be suited to you?

Times Higher Education and the Wall Street Journal have analysed a number of business schools around the world, producing a table of high-achieving schools from around the world.

Blue skies, endless sunshine, pitchers of ice-cold drinks and barbecues...the final weeks of term after exams are finished and summer has arrived are probably some of the best times that students will experience at university. 

Summer is a time when you and your friends can take day trips around your university town, soak up the glorious weather and enjoy a well-earned rest before you head home for jobs/internships and start tackling next year’s reading list. 

Music festivals are a core part of university life, particularly in Europe, and they have almost become a student rite of passage. Music festivals are a great way to let off steam during the summer break, see some of your favourite artists and spend time with your friends. 

And it’s even better if there happens to be a great music festival taking place close to your university. Some events even offer discounted tickets to students and residents of the city. 

The higher education world is getting smaller as more and more students are choosing to study abroad. Students are looking to universities to provide an international experience, the opportunity to study alongside people from all over the world, and to give them a truly global community in which to study.