City climbs Guardian University Guide 2025 rankings

The Guardian University Guide 2025 ranked City as 38th nationally. Climbing 23 places from last year, the University is the biggest improver in rank out of the top 50 universities.

City was also ranked as the seventh highest London university, moving up three places from last year.

The University’s significant improvement in rank is based on a strong performance in the recent National Student Survey, which showed an increasingly positive undergraduate student experience.

City, University of London has formally merged with St George’s, University of London, creating City St George’s, University of London, a powerful multi-faculty institution with a distinctive focus on professional education and research at the frontier of practice.

This league table lists City and St George’s separately. The same approach will be taken by tables published until Spring next year when UCAS will list the combined University as a single institution.

Leading subject areas

A number of subject areas at City ranked particularly highly in this year’s guide including:

o            Health professions – ranked 1st in London and 2nd in the UK.

o            Marketing and Public Relations – 1st in London and 3rd in the UK

o            Journalism – ranked 1st in London and 4th in the UK.

o            Aerospace engineering – 2nd in London and 7th in the UK.

o            Accounting and finance – 3rd in London and 14th in the UK.

o            Business and management – 4th in London and 24^th in the UK.

Commenting on City’s performance in the Guardian University Guide 2025, the University’s President, Professor Sir Anthony Finkelstein, said:

There is a very simple story behind our continuing improvement in rankings. We decided, collectively, to put the student experience at the centre of our work. We are delivering it in the class, lecture by lecture, course by course, and through a consistent student-focus and flexibility on the part of all our professional services.