Durham named as Top 3 UK University in prestigious league table
Durham named as Top 3 UK University in prestigious league table. Durham University has been named in the Top 3 of UK universities, according to the prestigious Sunday Times University Guide 2012. The all-round education experience offered by Durham's academic departments and colleges helped the University achieve its highest ever ranking in the guide (published Sunday September 11th). Durham was ranked as the UK's third best University, an improvement of three places on last year. The guide uses a wide range of information including student satisfaction, teaching and research quality, entrance qualifications held by new students, degree results achieved, student/staff ratios, graduate unemployment levels and university drop-out rates. More than four in five (82 per cent) of Durham graduates get a graduate-level job when they leave, with an average salary of more than £21,300, and along with Cambridge University, over 98 per cent of Durham students complete their course, the guide added. The new guide comes after Durham recently cemented its place as a World Top 100 University in the 2011 QS World University League Rankings, which also placed the University in the World Top 15 for graduate employability.
