Kent Law School’s world-class reputation for research is recognised in the The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2021 with an overall ranking of 13th in the UK and a national ranking of 8th based on research quality.
The Law School has climbed four places in the Good University Guide (published this weekend) which ranks a total of 101 UK law schools. The league table, described as the “definitive ranking for British universities”, also takes account of key measures relevant to student experience which are drawn from the results of the 2020 National Student Survey. These measures include student opinion on teaching quality, graduate job prospects, course entry standards, and completion rates.
Kent Law School has a well-established, international reputation for the quality of its critical, socio-legal research. Last month, it was ranked among the top 150 law schools in the world (and among the top 11 nationally) in the 2020 Shanghai Ranking’s Global Ranking of Academic Subjects.
The School’s excellent global reputation is further endorsed in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2020 where it is ranked 51st for law and it is among the top 200 law schools in the QS World University Rankings 2020.
In the most recent Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2014, the Law School is ranked 8th in the UK for research intensity. Almost all (99%) of its research was judged to be of international quality with 79% judged as ‘world-leading’ or ‘internationally excellent’.
As a leading UK law school, Kent is ranked 22nd in both the Complete University Guide 2021 and The Guardian University Guide 2021.
Kent Law School’s critical and interdisciplinary scholarship includes socio-legal studies, law and humanities, critical legal studies and feminist theory. Law is placed within its wider social, political and historical contexts, embracing a wide range of thematic and geographical areas. Academics are renowned in particular for their attention to the role of law in creating, challenging and perpetuating social and global inequalities.
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