Guardian University Guide 2017
FOR STUDENTS
The Guardian University Guide will serve as your valuable guide for finding only top-rated and prestigious university as well as the right and appealing academic courses. This guide implies a universities ranking list, consisting of an overall table and 54 tables for different subject areas. The Guardian University Guide is easy and convenient to use, different from the other online guides you might have seen. Our custom writing company glad to present you important information for students below …
If you search for a certain course, look at the subject table relevant to the course, and then see which universities are the best places to teach that specific subject. If you need to know the main features of any university in the world, open the university profiles on our website. There, you will discover general facts about a university, like accommodation, tuition fees, transportation and learn why it was ranked. Besides, if you want to get acquainted with the subjects you haven’t faced in school or college, visit our page of subject profiles.
How the League Tables Are Formed?
Students usually ask about the benefits of studying at certain universities, their study programs and degrees. It is not a surprising fact, because every applicant may worry about his future job, perspectives and self-realization. We are aware of these things, that’s why we formed our league tables for everyone seeking the best education opportunities. There is a number of guides similar to the Guardian University Guide, but they do not rank universities. We collect the most important aspects of university life and student preferences, and conduct a research to clearly see which universities’ performance is of high quality. Then, we rank universities basing on the scores they earned for the implementation of requirements and needs of all undergraduates.
Frankly speaking, there is a few unpopular courses we didn’t rank because of the lack of students studying those courses. They are placed at the end of each subject table and are not included in the statistics.
While forming the ranking tables, we asked for advice from the expert review group from universities of the UK. This team of professionals is focused on tracking and noting the changes of any subject area. They monitor our process of ranking and collecting data to be dead sure we do our best.
The information we collect for ranking universities is provided by the Higher Education Statistics Agency and on the National Student Survey. The tables you encounter on the website have been made specially for the Guardian by Intelligent Metrix. This independent organization checks and evaluates the performance of higher educational establishments.
How to Use The Guardian University Guide?
When you discover the guide for the first time, you may feel a little confused about the tables. For that reason, we’ll give you some instructions of how to use our guide for your own needs in a simple way. The scores any University gains in our ranking system are based on several factors. The very first thing is the student satisfaction. It implies the percentage of undergraduates who are satisfied with the quality of courses and programs, the teaching they received, the working performance of lecturers, etc. Secondly, the students evaluated the universities after graduation depending on the experience and knowledge they gained, the degrees and opportunities for the future jobs (or in short words, an employability).
What is more, we pay attention to the money spent on each student, the number of applicants and current students. In addition, there is a Guardian score, which the educational institutions achieve basing on the implementation of all efficient factors and requirements. After getting to know what every column of the table represents, you choose any university you need and get all important information about it, including the quality level, the number of scores and reviews.