The Times: Good University Guide:

The Times 1999 League Table

How the table is produced

A = 1999 Rank
B = Institution
C = Teaching assessments (weight 2.5)
D = Research (weight 1.5)
E = Entry standards (weight 1)
F = Staff-student ratios (weight 1)
G = Library and computer spending (weight 1)
H = Facilities spending (weight 1)
I = Firsts and 2:1s (weight 1)
J = Graduate Destinations (weight 1)
K = 1999 Score (max. 1,000)

A	B	C	D	E	F	G	H	I	J	K

1	Cambridge	100	100	100	79	85	69	100	95	929
2	Imperial	100	85	92	100	82	100	71	91	914
3	Oxford	95	96	97	70	97	65	91	93	893
4	LSE	93	96	92	77	100	82	77	87	892
5	UCL	91	84	79	95	80	75	80	83	845
6	SOAS	95	72	66	93	100	77	78	81	841
7	Warwick	96	85	85	60	72	75	79	94	832
8	Edinburgh	90	79	87	57	76	80	86	93	823
9	Bristol	88	72	86	64	69	93	86	96	823
10	St Andrews	94	72	81	51	68	74	92	98	807
11	Nottingham	90	69	88	61	69	75	85	96	802
12	York	98	79	80	54	69	79	72	84	800
13	Sheffield	92	70	84	59	65	75	72	92	782
14	Lancaster	89	79	74	47	69	80	76	91	780
15	Bath	79	78	77	49	78	85	77	93	774
16	Birmingham	88	69	81	58	66	75	75	95	773
17	King's CL	81	69	77	87	76	70	69	86	771
18	Durham	89	72	84	49	66	74	72	92	768
19	Newcastle-upon-Tyne	85	64	74	70	76	77	71	84	762
20	Manchester	84	74	80	55	74	69	75	89	761
21	Southampton	85	68	73	58	69	72	68	92	748
22	Glasgow	91	58	77	51	67	69	80	88	747
23	Leeds	84	70	77	53	69	72	74	87	746
24	UMIST	81	76	71	56	65	75	65	94	743
25	Reading	86	67	67	60	66	74	71	91	743
26	Loughborough	88	63	69	40	63	77	80	94	740
27	Royal Holloway	83	68	71	49	65	77	79	90	740
28	Queen Mary	89	60	60	68	68	72	70	89	739
29	Essex	87	76	57	53	68	81	63	78	731
30	Surrey	78	61	62	67	68	77	66	100	729
31	Leicester	81	66	71	59	67	71	68	89	728
32	Dundee	84	55	63	68	66	75	69	94	728
33	Stirling	88	56	66	50	70	74	76	87	727
34	Hull	86	56	65	64	68	63	72	96	727
35	Cardiff	82	71	75	43	63	72	70	92	726
36	Aberdeen	88	61	64	45	64	72	77	92	723
37	East Anglia	82	69	69	40	63	74	73	90	719
38	Sussex	77	74	68	47	69	70	67	91	715
39	Liverpool	82	61	73	57	65	71	61	92	715
40	Exeter	82	58	74	52	66	68	74	85	710
41	Keele	78	61	69	60	62	68	72	90	707
42	Heriot-Watt	82	52	59	50	69	82	67	92	703
43	Queen's Belfast	84	52	55	46	68	81	69	93	701
44	City	76	39	64	73	73	81	59	90	690
45	Strathclyde	90	53	52	51	63	71	66	83	689
46	Swansea	83	53	62	56	64	70	68	79	685
47	Kent	80	56	67	45	67	69	59	91	683
48	Aberystwyth	81	55	64	41	66	74	66	88	682
49	Aston	78	52	73	32	65	73	73	89	679
50	Goldsmiths'	72	64	63	51	65	66	67	85	673
51	Bangor	81	46	52	56	70	69	61	83	661
52	Bradford	69	62	57	42	64	81	56	87	651
53	Oxford Brookes	85	22	47	49	62	76	65	94	641
54	Ulster	78	36	68	44	65	58	71	79	633
55	Brunel	81	51	53	34	63	64	58	83	633
56	Napier	76	8	43	75	65	72	59	91	608
57	Salford	70	51	49	46	64	63	53	77	605
58	Lampeter	72	52	48	39	62	63	52	78	602
59	Robert Gordon	78	14	48	49	65	63	61	98	601
60	Brighton	78	21	43	42	65	68	64	88	596
61	Westminster	77	15	44	58	69	67	63	79	595
62	Northumbria	86	11	53	50	64	58	56	81	594
63	West of England	86	13	49	43	60	65	55	89	594
64	Plymouth	79	22	51	47	61	61	59	84	593
65	Sheffield Hallam	77	15	53	40	63	72	56	92	591
66	Kingston	86	13	44	39	62	66	55	89	591
67	Anglia Polytechnic	76	8	42	49	61	68	67	87	576
68	Portsmouth	73	22	46	41	60	68	58	87	575
69	Nottingham Trent	71	16	52	32	59	67	62	95	569
70	De Montfort	71	22	43	38	60	64	62	91	568
71	Glasgow Caledonian	80	13	50	42	56	56	60	78	561
72	Manchester Metropolitan	81	16	45	38	60	59	52	82	561
73	Coventry	78	13	41	37	62	65	51	87	560
74	Liverpool John Moores	71	16	48	45	63	61	51	88	559
75	Paisley	77	7	37	54	67	57	59	80	556
76	Greenwich	74	13	40	41	67	72	46	84	556
77	Wolverhampton	72	8	43	41	59	75	61	83	554
78	Huddersfield	65	18	45	43	62	65	62	88	553
79	South Bank	72	11	35	54	67	74	51	71	549
80	Glamorgan	78	8	40	42	63	69	45	81	548
81	Central Lancashire	75	9	48	42	61	58	54	82	547
82	Abertay Dundee	76	11	32	43	68	59	51	85	545
83	Hertfordshire	65	14	44	41	66	64	57	90	543
84	Staffordshire	72	13	43	35	60	63	58	84	543
85	Middlesex	73	18	42	29	63	64	57	77	542
86	Leeds Metropolitan	69	9	51	38	60	62	56	87	541
87	Teesside	70	9	40	49	62	65	47	85	536
88	Central England	73	11	47	46	58	65	51	69	536
89	East London	67	16	39	39	64	67	56	72	526
90	North London	75	16	29	31	63	66	51	73	525
91	Sunderland	69	13	39	28	58	66	52	88	524
92	Derby	68	9	42	32	61	63	53	83	518
93	Luton	75	8	41	38	60	59	42	78	516
94	Thames Valley	69	4	38	50	67	71	46	64	513
95	London Guildhall	69	12	40	31	65	63	44	77	512
96	Bournemouth	60	6	52	33	60	62	57	82	507
97	Lincolnshire & Humberside	64	8	40	27	61	57	56	78	494

A	B	C	D	E	F	G	H	I	J	K

Poll positions

The ranking of universities by The Times is produced entirely from published statistics. Positions are determined by a "poll of polls", in which results from the eight indicators are converted to a points score and aggregated.

The Higher Education Statistics Agency provided data on entry qualifications, staffing levels, library and computer spending, degree classifications, graduate destinations, entry grades and student facilities. These figures are for 1996-97, the latest available when the book of the guide went to press. The other sources are the three higher education funding councils, for the teaching and research assessments. None of the organisations was involved in aggregating or manipulating the data.

A team of three university experts - Dr Bernard Kingston (careers), Dr Andrew Hindmarsh (admissions) and Professor Bob Loynes (statistics) - compiled the ranking. The top university for each indicator is awarded 100 points, the remainder a proportion based on the unadjusted scores.