Recent acclaims
In 2008, The Sunday Times placed us 32nd out of 120 UK universities for ‘teaching excellence’ – on a level with older universities including St Andrews, Durham, Bristol and Edinburgh. An impressive 15 subjects were rated as ‘excellent’ including biosciences; civil engineering; mechanical, aeronautical and manufacturing engineering; and business and management.
Year-on-year applications to Kingston continue to grow and in 2007, we received over 35,652 student applications, making Kingston the ninth most popular choice of all the UK universities and the most popular university in London (source: www.ucas.com).
In the Guardian newspaper (May 2007), Kingston University appeared in five of the UK’s top-20 subject tables (Education – 2nd behind Cambridge; Sports Science; Mathematics; Building – Town and Country Planning; Mechanical Engineering).