Top universities for Chemistry

Get a sense of which universities are best for Chemistry with our Chemistry rankings table. We use real student reviews, graduate data and more to shape our tables into something that is useful for you!

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UNIVERSITY 2024
SATISFACTION
REFLECTIONS
OUTCOMES
RESEARCH QUALITY
Edge Hill Uni

1st

4.19 / 5

90 / 100

100 / 100

Uni of Reading

2nd

4.17 / 5

87 / 100

100 / 100

19.21
Manchester Met Uni

3rd

4.08 / 5

84 / 100

85 / 100

Swansea Uni

4th

4.26 / 5

85 / 100

89 / 100

16.35
Queens Uni

5th

4.04 / 5

87 / 100

91 / 100

10.79
Uni of Sheffield

6th

4.32 / 5

86 / 100

88 / 100

10.15
Uni of Liverpool

7th

4.36 / 5

85 / 100

89 / 100

8.44
Liverpool Hope Uni

8th

4.11 / 5

88 / 100

50 / 100

Uni of Birmingham

9th

4.25 / 5

87 / 100

82 / 100

10.78
Uni of Strathclyde

10th

4.03 / 5

87 / 100

100 / 100

9.91
Loughborough Uni

11th

4.23 / 5

86 / 100

86 / 100

9.77
Cardiff Uni

12th

4.23 / 5

86 / 100

89 / 100

8.72
Uni of Leicester

13th

4.06 / 5

85 / 100

86 / 100

17.82
Uni of Surrey

14th

4.21 / 5

88 / 100

88 / 100

Sheffield Hallam Uni

15th

4.19 / 5

87 / 100

100 / 100

Uni of Nottingham

16th

4.20 / 5

87 / 100

88 / 100

7.34
Aston Uni

17th

4.19 / 5

87 / 100

80 / 100

Uni of Oxford

18th

4.26 / 5

86 / 100

91 / 100

4.39
UWEBristol

19th

4.04 / 5

83 / 100

100 / 100

Uni of C.Lancashire

20th

4.03 / 5

85 / 100

75 / 100

Uni of Leeds

21st

4.20 / 5

84 / 100

93 / 100

8.29
Aberystwyth Uni

22nd

4.14 / 5

82 / 100

100 / 100

Newman Uni

23rd

4.16 / 5

90 / 100

100 / 100

Uni of York

24th

4.16 / 5

83 / 100

89 / 100

6.34
Liverpool JM

25th

4.28 / 5

86 / 100

91 / 100

Uni of Lincoln

26th

4.05 / 5

83 / 100

100 / 100

21.76
Uni of Bristol

27th

4.21 / 5

83 / 100

91 / 100

5.83
Uni of Warwick

28th

4.03 / 5

85 / 100

83 / 100

7.50
Nottingham Trent

29th

4.32 / 5

83 / 100

92 / 100

Uni of Chester

30th

4.13 / 5

87 / 100

100 / 100

18.67
Uni of Cambridge

31st

4.09 / 5

85 / 100

90 / 100

4.82
Uni of Glasgow

32nd

4.12 / 5

85 / 100

86 / 100

8.15
Uni of Exeter

33rd

4.23 / 5

85 / 100

87 / 100

De Montfort

34th

4.06 / 5

82 / 100

75 / 100

Newcastle Uni

35th

4.17 / 5

85 / 100

88 / 100

10.21
Uni of Portsmouth

36th

4.13 / 5

84 / 100

100 / 100

Northumbria Uni

37th

4.23 / 5

85 / 100

75 / 100

Uni of Sussex

38th

4.07 / 5

82 / 100

78 / 100

17.27
Uni of Greenwich

39th

4.01 / 5

84 / 100

80 / 100

16.92
Uni of Aberdeen

40th

4.01 / 5

85 / 100

100 / 100

16.63
The Uni of Salford

41st

4.03 / 5

84 / 100

50 / 100

UCL

42nd

4.12 / 5

87 / 100

88 / 100

5.68
Uni of Kent

43rd

3.98 / 5

82 / 100

94 / 100

17.28
Uni of Sunderland

44th

3.94 / 5

85 / 100

Uni of Edinburgh

45th

4.05 / 5

85 / 100

86 / 100

7.40
Middlesex Uni

46th

4.07 / 5

86 / 100

Lancaster Uni

47th

3.95 / 5

85 / 100

88 / 100

11.88
Uni of Plymouth

48th

4.10 / 5

87 / 100

86 / 100

UEA

49th

3.99 / 5

85 / 100

100 / 100

9.77
Uni of Hull

50th

3.98 / 5

87 / 100

75 / 100

21.31
Durham Uni

51st

4.02 / 5

85 / 100

93 / 100

7.65
Queen MaryUOL

52nd

4.01 / 5

86 / 100

81 / 100

22.58
Royal Holloway

53rd

3.93 / 5

83 / 100

89 / 100

Uni of Essex

54th

3.95 / 5

83 / 100

86 / 100

Uni of Southampton

55th

4.07 / 5

85 / 100

79 / 100

7.82
Uni of Hertfordshire

56th

3.93 / 5

84 / 100

67 / 100

Keele Uni

57th

3.99 / 5

87 / 100

86 / 100

Uni of Bath

58th

4.12 / 5

86 / 100

85 / 100

8.46
LSE

59th

4.02 / 5

86 / 100

79 / 100

Uni of Brighton

60th

3.92 / 5

86 / 100

60 / 100

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