We are proud of the quality of our education, research and enterprise. Our rankings for graduate outcomes reflect our commitment to employability.
Our commitment to enabling our graduates to succeed in their future careers and life pathways is evidenced through our graduate outcomes rankings.
Our students and alumni
We have over 20,000 students and an extremely diverse student population. About 70% of our students are from the UK, 7% from the EU and 23% from around the world.
Around 5,600 students start undergraduate studies each year
More than 230,000 former students from over 180 countries are members of the City Alumni Network.
Social inclusion
Research Excellence Framework (REF)
The results of REF 2021, published by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) in May 2022, found:
- 86% of City research rated as world leading 4* (40%) and internationally excellent 3* (46%) quality (based on City's submission to the REF).
- A marked increase in research quality compared to the 2014 REF when 75.7% of research at City was rated as 4* (23.3%) and 3* (52.4%).
- The proportion of City’s research rated world–leading (4*) has almost doubled to 40% (from 23% in 2014).
- Excellence across City Schools, with all individual Units of Assessment (UoA) improving their overall Grade Point Average (GPA) compared to 2014.
- City is 39th in the UK out of 129 universities according to the Times Higher Education rankings, an increase of 12 places since REF 2014.
Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF)
The results of TEF 2023, published by the Office for Students (OfS), were announced in September 2023:
- City retained its overall Silver award, recognising our student experience and student outcomes as typically ‘very high-quality’.
- Student experience aspect was rated Bronze.
- Student outcomes aspect was rated Gold. Only 33 providers in the UK were awarded Gold, the highest rating, reflecting City’s commitment to prepare our students for their future careers.
Our research
Learn more about how our researchers produce world leading and internationally acclaimed research, as measured by the Research Excellence Framework (REF).