When you’re thinking about where to study, a very relevant question to ask is how happy you’ll be at different universities.
Although this is impossible to predict for an individual person, it is nonetheless useful to get a sense of how satisfied other students are with their experience at university.
If you want to know which UK universities give you the best chance of securing a professional job upon graduation, there are two ways to look at it.
In absolute terms, the prestigious Russell Group universities, which include University of Cambridge, are some of the best universities for graduate employment.
Predictions for the results of the UK government’s teaching excellence framework (TEF), calculated and published by the Times Higher Education today, reveal a top 10 surprisingly absent of Russell Group universities.
A new set of rankings for seven different engineering subjects has been released by the ShanghaiRanking Consultancy.
Although universities in the United States dominate the rankings by taking more top positions than any other country, Chinese, Swiss and UK institutions are also very well represented across the different subject league tables of top universities for engineering.
Facebook and Google hire more than 80 per cent of their employees from the top 200 schools in the US, according to a new report.
In fact, more than half of Facebook employees graduated from a top 10 college, taken from a sample of public LinkedIn profiles.
In comparison, just under 50 per cent of Amazon employees were hired from colleges outside the top 100 of Forbes’ list of the top schools in the US. Less than 10 per cent of its employees are from a top 10 college.
If you’re looking to study at a prestigious university in Latin America, Brazil would be a good bet.
Students at world-renowned universities in Canada, the United States,
South Africa dominates a pilot ranking of the top 15 universities in Africa for 2016.
Six of the best African universities are in South Africa, including the top three universities overall: Stellenbosch University.
Universities in Uganda, Ghana, Kenya, Egypt, Morocco and Nigeria also feature in the ranking, which is determined using the World University Rankings methodology.
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Young universities offer more opportunities for interdisciplinary studies and innovative teaching, according to students and staff at the world’s best young universities in the Times Higher Education 150 Under 50 Rankings 2016 released today.
More than 15,000 students across the UK have contributed to the Times Higher Education's Student Experience Survey 2016. Now students at the best and most improved universities explain what their university life is really like at these institutions.