100 UK universities, ranked for 2027.
Scored across academic quality, student outcomes, experience, value for money, and global reach. Methodology open, data downloadable, weights yours to tune.
- Universities
- 100
- Metrics
- 12
- Sources
- 7
- Released
- Jun 2026
About this ranking
The CourseOptions UK Universities Ranking is compiled annually by the CourseOptions data team and published openly at courseoptions.com/uk/ranking. The 2027 edition draws on the 2021 Research Excellence Framework, Discover Uni's 2024/25 Key Information Set, HESA Open Data, the National Student Survey, and the Longitudinal Education Outcomes dataset. Universities receive their preliminary scores and pillar breakdowns thirty days before publication and may submit corrections through the right-of-reply process. Methodology, source data, and computation code are released under the Creative Commons CC-BY 4.0 licence. Read the full methodology.
- Data freeze
- 2027-03-31
- Published
- 2026-06-28
- Next edition
- Jun 2027
- Contact
- rankings@courseoptions.com
- Licence
- CC-BY 4.0