Kent Law School continues to be ranked as a top ten law school in The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2015.
The latest national rankings, published yesterday, confirm Kent Law School has retained its 10th place position for the second consecutive year.
The news comes in a year which has seen Kent Law School achieve its best ever performance in the UK league tables for law, having already been ranked 14th in the Guardian University Guide 2015 and 18th in the Complete University Guide 2015.
The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide offers a comprehensive analysis of quality, drawing on criteria that include student satisfaction, research quality, graduate prospects, entrance qualifications held by new students, degree results achieved, student/staff ratios, service and facilities spend, and university dropout rates.
Kent’s overall score of 89.9 (out of 100) in the table sees the Law School ranked 10th in the UK, and 8th in England.
Head of Kent Law School Professor Didi Herman said: ‘Our position as a top 10 law school for the second year in The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2015 serves to underline the consistent quality of our teaching and research. Students are taught by leading academic scholars who are committed to providing students with an outstanding legal education of the highest quality.
‘Our distinctive ‘critical approach’ to teaching and research enables our students to extend their learning beyond the detail of the law. They are taught to think about its history, development and relationship with wider society. Students learn in an intellectually stimulating and supportive environment that enables them to develop skills in critical research, analysis and creative thinking.
‘We embed our research in our teaching and are very proud that this research culture profoundly shapes the experience of our students. Our graduates have excellent employment prospects and successfully progress into a broad range of careers.’
Kent has long been regarded as a leading UK Law School. Its world class academic standing for research quality was confirmed in the most recent government Research Assessment Exercise, in which Kent was ranked 6th in the UK, and 4th for the percentage of research classified as world-leading or internationally excellent. Kent is the only law school to have had teachers nominated for the national Law Teacher of the Year Award in three consecutive years, winning in 2012. It has also been ranked in the top 200 QS World Rankings for Law since the creation of the tables.
Kent’s Law Clinic – the oldest in the UK – is also well recognised, having won numerous awards, the most recent of which was theEthical Initiative of the Year at The Lawyer Awards 2014 in June. Students are able to develop practical legal skills through participation in the work of the Clinic and by getting involved in a variety of extra-curricular modules that include Mooting, Mediation, Negotiation and Client Interviewing.