{"id":4379,"date":"2013-05-01T12:35:26","date_gmt":"2013-05-01T12:35:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/tizard-news-events\/?p=425"},"modified":"2019-05-21T13:55:48","modified_gmt":"2019-05-21T12:55:48","slug":"kent-university-consolidates-its-position-in-the-top-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/2013\/05\/01\/kent-university-consolidates-its-position-in-the-top-30\/","title":{"rendered":"Kent University consolidates its position in the top 30"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Kent has been ranked 28th out of 124 UK institutions in the <i>Complete University Guide 2014<\/i> \u2013 a rise of five places from last year.<\/p>\n<p>This rise, combined with the University\u2019s third place for overall satisfaction in the most recent National Student Survey (2012) and other recent league table achievements, including a ranking of 22nd in the 2013 <i>Guardian <\/i>University Guide and 28th in the <i>Sunday Times<\/i> League Table 2013, confirms Kent\u2019s position in the top tier of UK universities.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>David Nightingale, Kent\u2019s Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor, said: \u2018Once again, this is excellent news for the University. Our league table positions, together with our reputation for research-led teaching and student experience, confirm that Kent is a first choice destination for prospective students.\u2019<i>\u00a0<\/i>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Launched in 2007, the Complete University Guide offers comparisons between UK universities on a wide range of criteria including strength of research, student satisfaction, entry standards, staff\/student ratio, spending on academic services, campus facilities, completion rates, good honours and graduate prospects. Its full league tables can be viewed at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecompleteuniversityguide.co.uk\/\">www.thecompleteuniversityguide.co.uk\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Kent has been ranked 28th out of 124 UK institutions in the Complete University Guide 2014 \u2013 a rise of five places &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/2013\/05\/01\/kent-university-consolidates-its-position-in-the-top-30\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2312,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124,43796],"tags":[124],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4379"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2312"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4379"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4658,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4379\/revisions\/4658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}