Kent Law School retains an excellent – and consistent – top 20 position in the new subject table for law published in The Guardian University Guide 2020.
The Law School is placed 16th out of 101 UK law schools in the latest rankings, published on Friday. It is the sixth consecutive year, the Law School has been ranked among the top 20 national law schools in The Guardian‘s influential, annual guide.
Within this year’s subject table for law, Kent is 7th in the UK for course satisfaction. This position reflects the high levels of student satisfaction reported by over 93% of final-year Law School students who completed the National Student Survey 2018.
The nine different measures used to calculate The Guardian University Guide rankings include a ‘continuation’ score which measures the percentage of first-year students who go into second year. Strong levels of student support at Kent are reflected in a score of 96.3% for the Law School, placing it 13th in the UK for continuation.
Kent Law School was recently ranked 18th in the UK in The Complete University Guide 2020 subject table for law and continues to hold a top 20 position in all three major UK league tables (currently also 11th in The Times Good University Guide 2019). The Law School has an excellent global reputation for law – ranked 58th in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2019, it is amongst the top 100 law schools in the world in the Shanghai Rankings Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2018 and amongst the top 200 law schools in the QS World University Rankings 2019.
In addition to its reputation as a leading UK law school with a distinctive ‘critical approach’ to teaching law, the Law School has an international reputation for producing world-leading research. In the most recent Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2014, Kent Law School was ranked eighth in the UK for research intensity. Almost all (99%) of the School’s research was judged to be of international quality with 79% judged as ‘world-leading’ or ‘internationally excellent’.