Times Ranking of Art & Design Programs

According to the Times Good University Guide ranking of top Arts & Design programs 2010, Oxford is ranked No. 1 in the UK, followed by UCL (2nd) and Glasgow (3rd).

Ranking Analysis:
- Oxford jumped up from 8th in 2009 to 1st in the Times 2010 edition.
- UCL was ranked 1st in 2008 and 2009 but dropped to 2nd in 2010.
- Brunel dropped from 2nd in 2009 to 5th.
- Kent made a big jump in the league tables over the three years, moving up from 28th (2008) to 16th (2009), and further moving up to 6th (2010).
- Lancaster moved up from 25th (2008) to 15th (2009) and made it to Top 10 in 2010 (7th).

League Table 2010 (Top 10 list):
1 Oxford
2 University College London
3 Glasgow
4 Loughborough
5 Brunel
6 Kent
7 Lancaster
8 Edinburgh
9 Newcastle
10 Bangor

League Table 2008:
1 University College London
2 Reading
3 Glasgow
4 Oxford
5 Brunel
6 Loughborough
7 Goldsmiths College
8 Newcastle
9 Leeds
10 Brighton
11 Kingston
12 Salford
13 Edinburgh
14 University of the Arts, London
15 Bournemouth
16 Dundee
17 Aberystwyth
=17 Nottingham Trent
19 Robert Gordon
20 Southampton
21 Greenwich
22 Falmouth
23 Northumbria
24 Sheffield Hallam
25 Lancaster
26 Coventry
27 Ulster
28 Kent
29 De Montfort
30 Anglia Ruskin
31 Oxford Brookes
=31 Leeds Metropolitan
33 Bath Spa
34 University College for the Creative Arts
=34 East London
36 Sunderland
37 Heriot-Watt
38 UWCN, Newport
=38 Plymouth
40 Napier
41 Staffordshire
42 Lincoln
43 Chichester
=43 Hertfordshire
=43 Central Lancashire
46 Middlesex
=46 Southampton Solent
48 Manchester Metropolitan
=48 Portsmouth
50 Glamorgan
51 Westminster
52 Thames Valley
53 Canterbury Christ Church
=53 Liverpool Hope
=53 UCE Birmingham
56 Gloucestershire
57 Buckinghamshire Chilterns
=57 Glasgow Caledonian
59 Liverpool John Moores
60 West of England
61 UWIC, Cardiff
62 Northampton
63 Derby
64 Roehampton
65 London South Bank
66 Cumbria
67 Teesside
68 Huddersfield
69 Bolton
70 Worcester
=70 Chester
72 Essex
73 York St John
74 Wolverhampton
75 Bedfordshire

Source: The Times

* Related Post: Guardian Art and Design Ranking

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