York hits top spot as Guardian reveals 'startling' league table
Posted on 1 May 2001
The University of York shares first place for high-quality teaching with Cambridge, Warwick and Loughborough.
Working with official inspection figures which mark each teaching subject out of 24, the Guardian 'league table' shows what percentage of departments each university has with scores of less than 21. All of York's departments have scored above 21, with over a third achieving the 'perfect' score of 24.
The top ten universities for teaching excellence include some newer universities - the former polytechnics. The top ten are:
- York, Cambridge, Warwick, Loughborough (0% of departments scoring below 21)
- Oxford (6.2%)
- University of the West of England (7.1%)
- Imperial College London (9.1%)
- Northumbria (11.7%)
- Nottingham (12.%)
- Sheffield (12%)