Awards and Rankings

Awards

• Top in Wales and 2^nd in the UK for Student Experience
  (Good University Guide, The Times and Sunday Times 2023)
• Top in Wales and 3^rd in the UK for Teaching Quality
  (Good University Guide, The Times and Sunday Times 2023)
• Gold Award for Halls and Student Accommodation
  (WhatUni? Student Choice Awards 2022)
• Top 10 University for Student Life 
  (WhatUni? Student Choice Awards 2022) 
• Top 10 University for Lectures and Teaching Quality
  (WhatUni? Student Choice Awards 2022) 
• Welsh University of the Year
  (Good University Guide, The Times and Sunday Times 2020) 
• University of the Year for Teaching Quality
  (Good University Guide, The Times and Sunday Times 2018 and 2019) 
• Awarded Gold for Teaching Quality in the Teaching Excellence Framework
  (Teaching, Excellence Framework [TEF] 2018)
• Gold Award for Postgraduate 
  (WhatUni? Student Choice Awards 2020)
• Gold Award for International 
  (WhatUni? Student Choice Awards 2020)
• Second place University of the Year 
  (WhatUni? Student Choice Awards 2020)
• Gold Award for Postgraduate 
  (WhatUni? Student Choice Awards 2019)
• Second place for International 
  (WhatUni? Student Choice Awards 2019)
• Second place University of the Year 
  (WhatUni? Student Choice Awards 2019)
• Top 10 University of the Year
  (WhatUni? Student Choice Awards 2017) 
• Green Flag Award for the second year running
  (Green Flag Award, 2017)
• Diversity Champion
  (Black History Month, 2016) 
• Awarded EcoCampus Gold Award
  (EcoCampus, 2016)
• Silver Award under the Corporate Health Standard (CHS), the quality mark for workplace health promotion
  (Corporate Health Standard 2014).

Rankings

• Top in England and Wales for Student Satisfaction (National Student Survey 2022; Based on the universities featured in The Times / Sunday Times Good University Guide 2022)
• 98% of research at Aberystwyth University is of an internationally recognised standard or higher (REF 2021)
• 75% of Aberystwyth University research is world-leading with 4* or internationally excellent with 3* (REF 2021)
• A top 40 University in the UK
  (Good University Guide, The Times and Sunday Times 2022) 
• Best University in Wales and top 10 in the UK for student satisfaction for the 6th year running
  (National Student Survey 2021) 
• Best University in the UK for Teaching Quality and Student Experience
  (Good University Guide, The Times and Sunday Times 2021) 
• Best University in Wales, 90% overall student satisfaction, and of all the universities featured in The Times / Sunday Times Good University Guide 2020, is one of the top 5 universities in the UK for overall student satisfaction
  (National Student Satisfaction Survey [NSS] 2020) 
• 2nd in the UK for Student Satisfaction
  (The Complete University Guide 2020)
• 2nd in the UK for satisfaction with Teaching
  (The Complete University Guide 2020)
• One of the safest places in Wales to be a student
  (The Complete University Guide 2017)
• A top 100 university in the world for Agriculture, Geography, Politics and International Studies
  (QS Word University Rankings 2017)
• A top 40 UK University
  (The Times Higher Education, World University Rankings, 2016) 
• Amongst the top 200 most international universities 
  (The Times Higher Education, Word University Rankings, 2016) 

Subject Rankings

The National Student Survey (NSS) is an annual survey of nearly half a million students in universities, colleges and other providers across the UK. The survey asks final-year undergraduate students to score their university across a wide range of measures of student satisfaction. They include quality of teaching, learning opportunities, assessment and feedback, academic support, organisation and management, learning resources, learning community and the student voice. Our rankings in the National Student Satisfaction Survey is based on the Times and Sunday Times list of Higher Education Institutions.