School succeeds in the Times University Guide 2025

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The School of Social Sciences and Humanities has achieved some outstanding subject rankings in the Times and Sunday Times University Guide 2025.

  • 1st for Communication and Media Studies
  • 1st for Criminology
  • 6th for Sociology
  • 8th for Geography and Environmental Science
  • 12th for History
  • Top 20 for Politics

The league table is based on nine measures: Teaching quality, student experience, research quality, entry standards, graduate prospects, firsts/2:1s, continuation rate, student/staff ratio, people and planet.

Professor Elizabeth Peel, Acting Dean for the School commented: “We are very proud to have achieved these results across our departments. As a school we are committed to offering the highest quality of teaching and support to our students, which is underpinned by world-class research.”

The Times University Guide rankings can be found . Further information about Loughborough’s success in the rankings can be found here.

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