{"id":1692,"date":"2017-05-18T11:00:07","date_gmt":"2017-05-18T10:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/?p=1692"},"modified":"2018-10-04T15:43:38","modified_gmt":"2018-10-04T14:43:38","slug":"biosciences-in-the-top-quartile-in-the-guardian-university-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/2017\/05\/18\/biosciences-in-the-top-quartile-in-the-guardian-university-guide\/","title":{"rendered":"Biosciences in the top quartile in the Guardian University Guide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The School of Biosciences is ranked among the UK&#8217;s best universities for the biological sciences in the 2018 Guardian University Guide, ranked 21st out of 102 eligible institutions.<\/p>\n<p>Among specific themes in the league table, the School ranked 10th for &#8220;satisfied with course&#8221;, 15th for &#8220;career after 6 months&#8221;, and 18th for &#8220;satisfied with teaching&#8221;. Our overall ranking of 21st places us in the top quartile of UK universities, and above prestigious institutions including UEA (23rd), Glasgow (27th), Liverpool (29th), King&#8217;s College London (31st), Durham (32nd) and\u00a0Newcastle (33rd).<\/p>\n<p>With top 10 performances in the National Student Survey and Research Excellent Framework, and\u00a0professional accreditation of it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/bio\/study\/undergraduate\/\">undergraduate<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/bio\/study\/postgraduate\/\">postgraduate<\/a> degree programmes,\u00a0the School of Biosciences\u00a0is a leading UK centre of research, education and training in the biological sciences.<\/p>\n<p>The University of Kent also secured its position as one of the UK&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/discover\/\">leading Universities<\/a>, ranked 22nd out of 121 eligible institutions.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul class=\"kent-social-links\"><li><a href='http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/2017\/05\/18\/biosciences-in-the-top-quartile-in-the-guardian-university-guide\/&amp;t=Biosciences in the top quartile in the Guardian University Guide' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-facebook' title='Share via Facebook'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='http:\/\/twitter.com\/home?status=Biosciences in the top quartile in the Guardian University Guide%20https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/2017\/05\/18\/biosciences-in-the-top-quartile-in-the-guardian-university-guide\/' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-twitter' title='Share via Twitter'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/share?url=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/2017\/05\/18\/biosciences-in-the-top-quartile-in-the-guardian-university-guide\/' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-google-plus' title='Share via Google Plus'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='http:\/\/linkedin.com\/shareArticle?mini=true&amp;url=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/2017\/05\/18\/biosciences-in-the-top-quartile-in-the-guardian-university-guide\/&amp;title=Biosciences in the top quartile in the Guardian University Guide' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-linkedin' title='Share via Linked In'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='mailto:content=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/2017\/05\/18\/biosciences-in-the-top-quartile-in-the-guardian-university-guide\/&amp;title=Biosciences in the top quartile in the Guardian University Guide' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-email' title='Share via Email'><\/i><\/a><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The School of Biosciences is ranked among the UK&#8217;s best universities for the biological sciences in the 2018 Guardian University Guide, ranked 21st out of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/2017\/05\/18\/biosciences-in-the-top-quartile-in-the-guardian-university-guide\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2767,"featured_media":543,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[80390,124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1692"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2767"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1692"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2007,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1692\/revisions\/2007"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/biosciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}