Quality and reputation

Most people want to go to a good university if they can, and this is where the League Table rankings are helpful. By bringing together a variety of measures they try to give a reasonable basis for deciding how good a university or a subject within a university really is. Differences of a few places in the table are insignificant, but a university in the top ten is doing a lot better than one in the bottom ten or even in the middle.
The Subject Tables rank universities on the basis of their research quality, the entry standards of their new students and how successful their graduates are at finding work or further study.
84% of students think the standard of teaching they receive is very or fairly good. UNITE Student Experience Report 2007