BANGOR University has been named the fourth best university in Wales in The Times & The Sunday Times Good University Guide 2023.

The prestigious guide, which ranks universities based on indicators such as grades, completion rate, quality of teaching, quality of research, student experience and graduate prospects.

Bangor climbed up nine places to 45th in the UK, with a First/2:1 pass rate of 75.3 per cent and a studies completion rate of 82.3 per cent.

The university ranks 20th in teaching quality, 31st in student experience and 38th in research quality, but its graduate prospects are down at 74th which is still a 16-place rise.

85 per cent of its submission to the Research Excellence Framework (REF 2021) was assessed as world-leading or internationally excellent, the top two categories.

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Some of the best results were in sports sciences, earth systems and environmental science, and allied health professions.

Furthermore, no university has more students who study through the medium of Welsh.

Its world ranking is 601.

The University of Oxford topped the list with a perfect overall score of 1000, followed by the University of St Andrews and University of Cambridge.

The highest-ranked Welsh university remains Cardiff University, which is the only Russell Group university in Wales and sits at 25th in the overall ranking.

For more information on the full list, click here.

For the full evaluation of Bangor University, click here.

All figures courtesy of The Times & The Sunday Times Good University Guide 2023 .