Scottish universities outperform English counterparts in latest law school rankings

Legal Cheek reports…

Scottish law schools appear to be outperforming many of their English counterparts.

This was one of the eye-catching results published this week in the 2021 Complete University Guide.

The Universities of Glasgow, Aberdeen, Edinburgh and Strathclyde feature in the top ten for law, while Dundee sits just outside in 11th position. The University of Stirling climbed four spots to round off the top twenty.

The top of the league table comes as no surprise: the University of Cambridge came first with an overall score of 100%, the highest of any institution, while the University of Oxford climbed two places in this year’s rankings to come second. London-based universities UCL and King’s College come in at third and fourth place, respectively.

Glasgow (5th), Aberdeen (6th), Edinburgh (7th) and Strathclyde (8th) come next, followed by Russell Group institution, the LSE, which has slipped three places down to ninth position. Durham University ranks in tenth place.

The rest of the top twenty features English universities (bar Dundee and Stirling). The University of Nottingham sticks with twelfth position, followed by the Universities of Exeter (13th), Leeds (14th), Lancaster (15th) and York (16th). Queen’s University Belfast finishes in seventeenth, followed by the University of Sheffield at eighteenth. The University of Bristol has dropped five places to nineteenth.

The results are based on entry standards, student satisfaction, research quality, research intensity and graduate prospects.

https://www.legalcheek.com/2020/06/scottish-universities-outperform-english-counterparts-in-latest-law-school-rankings/