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 to have appeared in the world top 100.
Times Higher Education Awards
In recent years we have won five prestigious Times Higher Education Awards:
- 2015: Best Development and Alumni Relations team
- 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
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 twelve awards from Athena SWAN for our commitment to gender equality:
- bronze awards for
- the University as a whole
- the Department of Education
- the Department of Electronic Engineering
- the Environment Department
- the Department of Health Sciences
- the Department of Mathematics
- the Centre for Health Economics
- three silver awards for
- the Hull York Medical School
- the Department of Physics
- the Department of Psychology
- two gold awards for
- the Department of Chemistry
- the Department of Biology.
Rankings
Times Higher Education World University Rankings
- 129th in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings (2017)
- 31st in the world for arts and humanities
- 79th in the world for life sciences
- 77th in the world for social sciences
- 28th in the world's most international universities (2017)
- 10th in the UK for Research Council income (2014/15)
QS World University Rankings
- 135th in the QS World University Rankings 2017
- Ten top 100 departments in the QS World University Rankings by subject 2017
The Times and Sunday Times
Complete University Guide
- 20th overall in the Complete University Guide 2018
- Eight subjects ranked in the top 10
The Guardian
- 17th in the Guardian University Guide 2018
Research Excellence Framework
- 14th overall and 10th for the impact of our research in the 2014 Research Excellence Framework
Teaching Excellence Framework
- Silver in the Teaching Excellence Framework 2017; the University of York delivers high quality teaching, learning and outcomes for its students. It consistently exceeds rigorous national quality requirements for UK higher education.
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.
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