{"id":491,"date":"2015-04-27T15:49:22","date_gmt":"2015-04-27T14:49:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/?p=491"},"modified":"2020-03-17T12:25:36","modified_gmt":"2020-03-17T12:25:36","slug":"school-improves-ranking-in-complete-university-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/2015\/04\/27\/school-improves-ranking-in-complete-university-guide\/","title":{"rendered":"School improves ranking in Complete University Guide 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Kent School of Economics has improved its position in two categories in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecompleteuniversityguide.co.uk\/league-tables\/rankings?s=Economics\">Complete University Guide<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecompleteuniversityguide.co.uk\/league-tables\/rankings?s=Economics\"> 2016<\/a>; we have risen by one place to 8<sup>th<\/sup> in the UK for Student Satisfaction, and have jumped 8 points for Graduate Prospects, with a total of 78% of students being employed in graduate positions or further study.\u00a0Overall, the School is placed a hair\u2019s breadth outside the top third of Economics departments in the UK.<\/p>\n<p>Our scores in the Complete University Guide underpin our consistent top 10 position in other national league tables:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>5th for career prospects, 8th\u00a0for Satisfaction with Teaching,\u00a011th\u00a0for Satisfaction with the Course, and 9th overall\u00a0in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/education\/ng-interactive\/2015\/may\/25\/university-league-tables-2016#S360\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc\">The Guardian University Guide 2016<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li>6th\u00a0for teaching and 7th\u00a0for Academic Support in the National Student Survey 2014<\/li>\n<li>10th for Student Satisfaction in the Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2015<\/li>\n<li>8th\u00a0for Research Intensity \u2013 a\u00a0new measure used for the first time in the Complete University Guide this year<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Head of School, Alastair Bailey, said: \u2018Our continued success in the Economics tables reflects, in no small part, the School\u2019s focus on teaching excellence, and student experience and outcomes, and I am extremely pleased that the School has again been recognised for the quality of teaching and support offered to students.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kent School of Economics has improved its position in two categories in the Complete University Guide 2016; we have risen by one place to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/2015\/04\/27\/school-improves-ranking-in-complete-university-guide\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37654,"featured_media":116,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[872,94122,70,9871],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37654"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":576,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491\/revisions\/576"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}