Bristol Beaten by Manchester in World Rankings

It’s that time of year again!  Uni league tables are out and we’ve grabbed a (reasonable) 79^th place on the Times Higher Education rankings.

At least Manchester’s a dump

Shockingly, we were beaten by Manchester, which came in at 58.  They usually rank tens of places below us on British league tables.

To add insult to injury, THE is liking us less and less.  We ranked 74^th last year, and 66^th in 2011.

But we’re still one of the world’s favourite British universities.  If this year’s applicants don’t like Oxbridge, London, Edinburgh or Manchester, we’ll be their first choice!

We also beat Durham, York and St Andrews, which ranked 80^th, 100^th and 117^th respectively.  And Warwick took a pathetic 141^st position.

Better than us? Really?

The top spot went to Caltech for the second year in row, while America also took another six of the top ten.

Oxford came 2^nd (no surprises there!) though Cambridge seems to be losing its footing, placing only 7^th.

But the devil’s in the detail: we got an overall score of 56.3 out of 100.  Our best feature is our ‘international outlook’, scoring 75/100, though we scored an appalling but unsurprising 39.6 out of 100 in teaching.