Awards and achievements
The University of York is one of the success stories in UK higher education. Since our foundation in 1963, we have powered our way to a consistently high ranking in the UK and are one of just six post-war universities which appear in the world top 100.
Times Higher Education Awards
In the last five years we have won five prestigious Times Higher Education Awards:
- 2012: Outstanding Support for Early Career Researchers
- 2011: Outstanding Engineering Research Team, member of the Widening Participation Initiative of the Year partnership
- 2010: University of the Year
- 2009: Outstanding Contribution to Leadership Development
- 2008: Outstanding Employer Engagement Initiative
Queen's Anniversary Prize
York is a five-times winner of the Queen’s Anniversary Prize for research in the following departments and centres:
- Department of Archaeology
- Department of Computer Science
- Centre for Health Economics (CHE)
- Centre for Novel Agricultural Products (CNAP)
- Social Policy Research Unit (SPRU)
Athena SWAN
York holds seven awards from Athena SWAN for supporting women scientists:
- three bronze awards for
- the University as a whole
- the Department of Computer Science
- the Department of Electronics
- three silver awards for
- the Department of Biology
- the Department of Physics
- the Department of Psychology
- a gold award for the Department of Chemistry.
Rankings
Times Higher Education 100 under 50
- 1st in the UK and 8th in the world in the Times Higher Education world rankings of universities less than 50 years old.
Times Higher Education World University Rankings
QS World University Rankings
- 110th out of 40,000 in the QS World University 2012 Rankings.
Complete University Guide
- 12th overall in the Complete University Guide 2014.
The Guardian
- 17th in the Guardian University Guide 2013.
Sunday Times
The Times
Research Assessment Exercise
- 8th out of 159 higher education institutions in the UK in the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise.
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QAA Institutional Review
The Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (QAA) works to safeguard standards and improve the quality of UK higher education.
In the most recent Institutional Review of the University of York (2012) we received an excellent outcome, and were commended on the enhancement of student learning opportunities.