Our Rankings
Our accolades, awards, and league table rankings in university guides

The University of Dundee has been named Scotland’s top university at The Herald Higher Education Awards.

The University of Dundee has been recognised as a “global centre of excellence for Life Sciences & Medicine” in the newly released QS World University Rankings by Subject 2022.

The University of Dundee is one of the world’s top 250 universities

The University of Dundee has been recognised for having two subjects in the word’s top 200 in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings by Subject 2023.

Dundee is ranked the second safest city in the UK

The University of Dundee has risen in the 2023 Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide, being ranked top in the UK for one subject and securing top 10 places in another six disciplines.
84% of our research was assessed as 'world leading' or 'internationally excellent' in the Research Excellence Framework 2021

The University of Dundee was 6th in UK and 1st in Scotland for the total value of spinouts over the last two decades.

We are one of the top 200 universities in the world for graduate employment rate

The University of Dundee is first in the UK for graduate prospects for Medicine.

The University of Dundee achieved top 100 world rankings for 4 of the 17 UN Sustainability Goals.

The University of Dundee is 34th in the world for the highest proportion of highly cited publications in the 2022 CWTS Leiden Rankings.

We recorded overall satisfaction of 76.8% for full-time students on undergraduate degrees.

Dundee was ranked 1st in Scotland, 9th in the UK, and 30th in the world in 2019