Top universities for Politics and International Studies

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Uni of Winchester

1st

0

3.86 / 5

85 / 100

90 / 100

49.40
Liverpool Hope Uni

2nd

0

3.32 / 5

88 / 100

100 / 100

27.57
Keele Uni

3rd

3

4.07 / 5

87 / 100

88 / 100

21.54
Leeds Beckett Uni

4th

-1

3.98 / 5

85 / 100

90 / 100

23.70
Open Uni

5th

13

4.02 / 5

84 / 100

77 / 100

31.44
Uni of Reading

6th

-2

3.83 / 5

87 / 100

89 / 100

19.70
University of the West of England (UWE), Bristol

7th

1

4.20 / 5

90 / 100

100 / 100

Uni of Leicester

8th

5

4.13 / 5

85 / 100

88 / 100

15.95
Uni of Liverpool

9th

-4

4.29 / 5

85 / 100

90 / 100

11.26
Uni of Strathclyde

10th

-3

3.74 / 5

87 / 100

93 / 100

16.18
UEA

11th

8

3.97 / 5

85 / 100

88 / 100

17.96
Uni of Hull

12th

3

3.83 / 5

87 / 100

87 / 100

16.71
Uni of Nottingham

13th

9

4.19 / 5

87 / 100

86 / 100

7.51
Cardiff Met Uni

14th

-5

3.89 / 5

89 / 100

100 / 100

Loughborough Uni

15th

-1

4.08 / 5

86 / 100

88 / 100

9.57
Uni of Lincoln

16th

9

3.99 / 5

83 / 100

79 / 100

21.76
Uni of Birmingham

17th

0

4.08 / 5

87 / 100

88 / 100

6.59
Uni of Stirling

18th

-2

2.82 / 5

86 / 100

93 / 100

28.70
Newcastle Uni

19th

13

4.21 / 5

85 / 100

83 / 100

8.89
Swansea Uni

20th

-9

3.96 / 5

85 / 100

83 / 100

14.40
Canterbury Uni

21st

25

3.64 / 5

88 / 100

82 / 100

16.96
Uni of Surrey

22nd

1

4.07 / 5

88 / 100

92 / 100

Cardiff Uni

23rd

1

4.07 / 5

86 / 100

83 / 100

9.17
Anglia Ruskin Uni

24th

-3

3.89 / 5

86 / 100

100 / 100

Oxford Brookes

25th

16

3.96 / 5

84 / 100

87 / 100

10.85
Royal Holloway

26th

7

3.71 / 5

83 / 100

93 / 100

12.68
Uni of Sheffield

27th

-15

3.96 / 5

86 / 100

87 / 100

7.83
Uni of Wolverhampton

28th

32

3.75 / 5

87 / 100

100 / 100

Uni of Manchester

29th

33

3.99 / 5

85 / 100

88 / 100

6.63
Uni of Bath

30th

-10

3.65 / 5

86 / 100

92 / 100

8.51
Uni of York

31st

0

4.00 / 5

83 / 100

89 / 100

8.06
Uni of Leeds

32nd

7

4.09 / 5

84 / 100

85 / 100

7.17
Uni of Exeter

33rd

1

4.08 / 5

85 / 100

85 / 100

5.72
UWE, Bristol

34th

14

3.90 / 5

83 / 100

100 / 100

UCL

35th

1

3.85 / 5

87 / 100

83 / 100

8.18
Queen's Uni

36th

-6

3.68 / 5

87 / 100

85 / 100

9.30
Uni of Chester

37th

18

4.10 / 5

87 / 100

86 / 100

Uni of Glasgow

38th

0

3.83 / 5

85 / 100

86 / 100

8.02
Uni of Westminster

39th

15

3.73 / 5

82 / 100

86 / 100

13.94
Queen Mary, UOL

40th

7

3.76 / 5

86 / 100

84 / 100

8.80
Glasgow Caledonian

41st

-13

3.46 / 5

88 / 100

100 / 100

Bournemouth Uni

42nd

19

4.14 / 5

84 / 100

89 / 100

Northumbria Uni

43rd

-3

4.00 / 5

85 / 100

91 / 100

USW

44th

27

3.58 / 5

86 / 100

100 / 100

Aston Uni

45th

0

3.96 / 5

87 / 100

88 / 100

Sheffield Hallam Uni

46th

-2

3.96 / 5

87 / 100

88 / 100

Uni of Cumbria

47th

6

3.42 / 5

88 / 100

100 / 100

Ulster Uni

48th

-5

3.91 / 5

89 / 100

85 / 100

The Uni of Salford

49th

19

4.07 / 5

84 / 100

89 / 100

Uni of Cambridge

50th

1

3.86 / 5

85 / 100

84 / 100

6.68
Uni of Sussex

51st

-2

3.78 / 5

82 / 100

85 / 100

11.45
Uni of Warwick

52nd

5

3.81 / 5

85 / 100

86 / 100

5.49
Durham Uni

53rd

-24

3.48 / 5

85 / 100

88 / 100

10.33
Uni of Worcester

54th

16

4.02 / 5

89 / 100

80 / 100

Manchester Met Uni

55th

14

4.11 / 5

84 / 100

86 / 100

Uni of Bristol

56th

-19

3.74 / 5

83 / 100

83 / 100

10.03
Goldsmiths, UOL

57th

9

3.27 / 5

83 / 100

89 / 100

14.69
Bath Spa Uni

58th

-8

3.58 / 5

83 / 100

100 / 100

Uni of Brighton

59th

16

3.78 / 5

86 / 100

88 / 100

Edinburgh Napier

60th

22

3.79 / 5

85 / 100

88 / 100

Uni of Portsmouth

61st

4

3.86 / 5

84 / 100

87 / 100

Nottingham Trent

62nd

16

4.36 / 5

83 / 100

75 / 100

Uni of Edinburgh

63rd

-4

3.58 / 5

85 / 100

83 / 100

6.91
Uni of Chichester

64th

23

3.82 / 5

86 / 100

83 / 100

De Montfort

65th

15

4.00 / 5

82 / 100

86 / 100

Uni of Southampton

66th

-39

3.18 / 5

85 / 100

87 / 100

10.99
Falmouth Uni

67th

27

3.91 / 5

75 / 100

100 / 100

Birmingham City Uni

68th

6

3.84 / 5

85 / 100

83 / 100

Lancaster Uni

69th

8

3.65 / 5

85 / 100

88 / 100

Uni of Greenwich

70th

3

3.68 / 5

84 / 100

89 / 100

Leeds Trinity Uni

71st

8

3.10 / 5

86 / 100

100 / 100

Teesside Uni

72nd

-9

2.90 / 5

88 / 100

100 / 100

Aberystwyth Uni

73rd

-38

3.17 / 5

82 / 100

83 / 100

13.88
Bangor Uni

74th

7

3.67 / 5

84 / 100

85 / 100

York St John Uni

75th

-11

3.50 / 5

86 / 100

84 / 100

Uni of Gloucestershire

76th

7

3.58 / 5

84 / 100

86 / 100

Uni of Kent

77th

-5

3.35 / 5

82 / 100

83 / 100

7.77
Uni of Northampton

78th

-20

2.85 / 5

86 / 100

100 / 100

Uni of Huddersfield

79th

14

3.72 / 5

85 / 100

78 / 100

Uni of Plymouth

80th

6

3.86 / 5

87 / 100

70 / 100

Uni of Roehampton

81st

-14

3.07 / 5

82 / 100

100 / 100

Kingston Uni

82nd

14

3.66 / 5

82 / 100

75 / 100

6.57
Uni of St. Andrews

83rd

2

2.97 / 5

84 / 100

88 / 100

7.67
Brunel Uni London

84th

7

3.36 / 5

82 / 100

75 / 100

11.11
Uni of Oxford

85th

-43

3.17 / 5

86 / 100

83 / 100

2.93
Coventry Uni

86th

2

3.40 / 5

83 / 100

78 / 100

5.90
Uni of Hertfordshire

87th

-31

2.81 / 5

84 / 100

100 / 100

Uni of Essex

88th

-12

3.15 / 5

83 / 100

83 / 100

6.41
Heriot-Watt Uni

89th

-5

2.97 / 5

84 / 100

89 / 100

Middlesex Uni

90th

10

4.26 / 5

86 / 100

50 / 100

Uni of Dundee

91st

-1

3.11 / 5

87 / 100

79 / 100

Uni of Bolton

92nd

0

3.17 / 5

88 / 100

75 / 100

SOAS

93rd

-4

2.78 / 5

82 / 100

80 / 100

11.13
City, UOL

94th

3

3.62 / 5

85 / 100

50 / 100

11.43
Uni of Bedfordshire

95th

4

3.16 / 5

86 / 100

67 / 100

St Mary's, Twickenham

96th

2

3.20 / 5

91 / 100

50 / 100

Uni of Sunderland

97th

-2

2.53 / 5

85 / 100

75 / 100

Newman Uni

98th

-88

1.04 / 5

90 / 100

100 / 100

Staffordshire Uni

99th

2

3.02 / 5

87 / 100

50 / 100

Plymouth Marjon Uni

100th

-48

0.94 / 5

89 / 100

100 / 100

Uni of Aberdeen

101st

-75

1.00 / 5

85 / 100

87 / 100

13.54
Solent Uni

102nd

0

3.17 / 5

80 / 100

50 / 100

Arts Bournemouth

103rd

2

3.40 / 5

73 / 100

50 / 100

Highlands & Islands

104th

-1

0.69 / 5

87 / 100

86 / 100

Birkbeck Uni

105th

-1

0.68 / 5

80 / 100

69 / 100

19.25
Uni of East London

106th

1

3.39 / 5

85 / 100

LSBU

107th

-1

3.23 / 5

84 / 100

Northeastern Uni

108th

1

2.90 / 5

86 / 100

Blackburn

n/a

-1

2.83 / 5

78 / 100

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