-Leicester is ranked joint 16th among all UK universities and joint 151st in the world by the Shanghai Jiao Tong University League Table. It is one of only 21 UK universities to feature in the world top 200 universities.
-It is ranked in14th place by both the Times Good University Guide and the Guardian University Guide 2009.
-The university was shortlisted for the award of the University of The Year by the Times Higher Education Supplement in 2005 and 2006. It was also shortlisted by the Sunday Times as University of the Year 2007.
-It was ranked joint first (with Loughborough University) for overall student satisfaction and teaching quality in the National Student Survey.
-It gained 13 grades of 5 and 5* ratings in the latest Research Assessment Exercise (RAE 2001).
-It has achieved 14 successive teaching scores of excellent (at least a score of 22 out of 24) from the Government Quality Assurance Agency (QAA).
