• Lancaster is in the top ten in all three national league tables – ranking 10th in the Times , 9th in the Complete University Guide, published this month, and 6th in the Guardian League table.
• Lancaster University has been ranked 124 in the world top 200 universities in the THE World Rankings – the highest level that Lancaster has ever achieved in global tables

Lancaster enters the Times Good University Guide 2011 top 10 for the first time, a rise of 13 places.

The latest Guardian University guide, published in June 2010, ranks Lancaster 6th out of 117 universities, and top in the North .

Lancaster University was singled out in the Times Higher Education magazine for being the university to make the ‘most significant jump’ to break into the top 10 of all three national newspaper rankings for the first time. In the THE’s ‘table of tables’ Lancaster comes 8th. The table is designed to show how universities are seen by national newspapers and ranks by combining positions in the Times, Guardian and Independent

Professor Paul Wellings, Vice-Chancellor of Lancaster University said: “ Maintaining the top position in the region across all the major league tables is an outstanding achievement for Lancaster.

" Students should be confident that they will get the very best academic experience here, through a combination of world-class research and the highest levels of student satisfaction - areas where Lancaster performs particularly well".

Lancaster University also emerged in the top band of UK Universities with a high proportion of its research rated ‘world leading’ in the latest Research Assessment Exercise published in 2008.

The RAE measures the quality of research conducted in universities and other higher education institutions in the UK against international standards of excellence.

Overall, 92% of research at Lancaster is recognised as being of an international standard and all units of assessment included world leading research.

13 departments are in the top 20 of UK institutions for their individual disciplines. This equates to 73% of staff.

Lancaster is ranked joint 15th out of 147 UK institutions for the amount of research judged to be of world leading importance.

Lancaster is a member of the 1994 group of research led universities. The Times Good University Guide has placed 1994 Group universities top in six regions of the UK with Lancaster being the most highly rated in the NW.