Providing some of the best teaching in the country helped De Montfort University Leicester (DMU) rise to its highest-ever position in the influential Complete University Guide.
Two subject categories – Business Computing, which includes DMU’s pioneering Business Information Systems course, run in partnership with worldwide technology giants HP, and Town & Country Planning, which covers DMU’s Housing Studies and the nationally renowned Centre for Comparative Housing Research – were ranked among the top 10 in the UK.
A further 13 subject categories listed for DMU – Architecture, Communication and Media Studies, Art and Design, Social Work, Marketing, Accounting and Finance, Business and Management, Psychology, Computer Science, History, Sociology, Politics and Economics – also rose up the rankings.
DMU’s School of Nursing and Midwifery and our School of Performing Arts continued to have a strong showing in their respective categories.
The successes are a reflection of DMU’s commitment to academic excellence and ground-breaking research which ensures students receive the best teaching possible.
Almost 60% of our research activities were considered world-leading or internationally excellent in the 2014 Research Excellence Framework, achieving a rise in research quality of 15% compared to the last exercise in 2008.
DMU’s passionate and enthusiastic lecturers have also earned 18 National Teaching Fellowships, making DMU one of the scheme’s top three universities in the UK for teaching excellence.
The Complete University Guide, which was published two weeks ago, saw DMU leap 17 places to 54th – one of just 11 universities in the country to have improved its position by 10 places or more.
It came on the back of the student-led WhatUni? website placing DMU in the top 50 universities in the UK.
The 2015 Times and The Sunday Times Good University Guide saw DMU leap 32 places taking it from 86th to 54th position, the biggest rise of any university in Britain.
Professor Michael Young, Pro-Vice Chancellor for Teaching and Learning at DMU, said: “This success is a testament to the brilliant work of our academics to ensure our students enjoy the best possible learning experience, and their determination that all our students go on to achieve great things in their future lives and careers.”
Posted on Tuesday 12 May 2015