Trent climbs 9 places in league tables… UoN only manage 1. Awkward.

This morning, the University League Tables were announced and Nottingham Trent University has moved up an entire 9 places.

This massive climb means that, over the past year, Trent has been one of the most improved universities in the country. We have jumped in front of the likes of the stalwarts of academia that are, ahem, Sheffield Hallam, Lincoln, and Manchester Metropolitan.

Results also show that Nottingham Trent is among the top ten universities in the country for two subjects; Social Policy and Land & Property Management. We’d love to mock this, but the joint-chief ed and co-writer of this article studies something property based, so we’ll leave that brilliant degree alone.

Clifton. Aka where Jake Bugg is from.

No change at the top this year for Cambridge, Oxford, and LSE respectively (shock), but St Andrews managed to muscle their way into 4th, one place ahead of Durham and two places ahead of last year’s 4th – Imperial.

Trent’s biggest rivals, University of Nottingham, just about managed to beat us again, coming 23rd in the list. This means they’ve moved up a measly 1 place since last year, bless ’em. In a very predictable move from UoN, they’ve already churned out a whiney Tab article complaining about the ‘scandalous’ league tables, and have even utilised their superior linguistic skills to inform us that they feel like they’ve been ‘mugged right off’. Cute.

Ranking 52nd, we’ve still got a long way to go, and the student reaction from Trent University has been mixed. 2nd year Broadcast Journalism student, Bobbie Hall said, “I’m pleased we’re moving up – but being 52nd doesn’t make us look very good.”

Newton. Built by Sir Isaac Newton himself. (Disclaimer: not built by Sir Isaac Newton)

Results from the league table showed that graduation prospects from Nottingham Trent are 61.1%, although overall student satisfaction is 40.3%.

However Rachel Yates, a second year student at NTU pointed out that when choosing a uni, referring to University League Tables is pretty pointless.

“For journalism you can’t go off the league table results as some of the top universities don’t even do it. Nottingham Trent has a course that is accredited by the National Journalism Council.”

Boots Library – the place where you have more chance of actually becoming a computer than being able to find a spare one

James Woods, a 2nd year Construction Management student, took a more positive view on today’s results. Look out for his course-based puns…

“It’s now been cemented that Trent is starting to break the ‘former Poly’ mould – this is concrete evidence that we can finally start mixing it up with the more established institutions.” Brilliant.

With our revamped SU (frequented by UoN students), coupled with such a drastic improvement from us on last year’s embarrassing 61st place in the league tables, AND now being proud owners of one of the country’s most popular branches of The Tab… people are starting to wonder which uni really is the university OF Nottingham?