2011
The University of East Anglia has been voted top English university, and the best in the UK for its accommodation and Student Union, in the Whatuni Student Choice Awards 2011.UEA is 8th in the Guardian's People & Planet Green League 2011, which ranks universities according to their policies and commitment to environmental management.
UEA has gone up to third in the Times Higher Education student experience survey. This is up from fifth last year. UEA has overtaken both Oxford (was third, now sixth) and Cambridge (was second now fourth).
Announced 2011 The Union of UEA Students was awarded 'Student Union of the Year' at the 2010 Club Awards.
A top 20 university. Guardian 2011 University League Table/Guardian University Guide 2011
23rd in the 2011 Times Good University Guide. "UEA has been one of the big winners in the National Student Survey, finishing in the top ten every year that results have been published."
The Times Good University Guide 2011 "Students appear to like the scale of this relatively small campus university, as well as the quality of its courses... Applications were up by 35 per cent - the biggest rise at any pre-1992 university in England."
The Times Good University Guide 2011 "...the broad subject combinations that the university pioneered from its origins in the 1960s...are highly regarded in the academic world."
The Times Good University Guide 2011 "UEA contributed more than any other university in the world to the 2007 Nobel Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change."
The Times Good University Guide 2011 "The Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts is perhaps the greatest resource of its type on any British Campus."
The Times Good University Guide 2011 "Norwich... has been voted one of the best small cities in the world."
The Times Good University Guide 2011 "The University of East Anglia... boasts excellent sports facilities, bars and cafes, and the excellent Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, not to mention some striking 1960s architecture."
The Guardian University Guide 2011 "The University prides itself on being at the forefront of green awareness, and is meeting its energy needs via the recently completed on-campus biomass generating plant."
The Guardian University Guide 2011 "[The University of East Anglia] is among the best [universities] on virtually any grounds you care to mention."
The Virgin Guide to British Universities 2011 "The LCR has been voted the best student venue in the country by the music industry's Live! magazine."
The Virgin Guide to British Universities 2011 "They are a 5-star uni for extra-curricular activities, with 70 societies and 40 sports clubs."
2010
Ranked 30th in the Sunday Times Good University Guide and 28th in the Complete University Guide. Teacher training programmes at the University of East Anglia have been judged as "outstanding" by Ofsted inspectors. September 2010"The judgement of outstanding means that your setting is exceptional and significant elements of your work are exemplary."
Christine Gilbert, Her Majesty's Chief Inspector, Ofsted. A new global rank order of universities sees the University of East Anglia as one of only 29 UK universities in the world's top 200, at 174th place.
The University of East Anglia is joint third mainstream English university for overall student satisfaction in the 2010 National Student Satisfaction Survey. The University’s students have placed it in the top five for overall student satisfaction every year since the survey began, six years ago. In addition to its strong overall place, the University has the top-ranked School of Pharmacy in the country with 99% overall satisfaction; its School of Political, Social and International Studies was top in the country for overall satisfaction for Media Studies and joint top for Sociology, with 100% satisfaction scores in both. Times Higher Education, 16 September 2010
The School of Allied Health Professions was joint top in the country for overall satisfaction for its Occupational Therapy course and joint first for satisfaction with teaching in Physiotherapy (98%) and Speech and Language Therapy (97%).
Drama and Psychology at the University both came out top in the country for satisfaction with teaching, with scores of 99% and 96%.
The School of International Development and its pioneering charitable company, International Development UEA, have been awarded a Queen's Anniversary Prize - the UK's most prestigious HE award, given to those who can demonstrate outstanding work at a world-class level. [As a prizewinner, the University is entitled to use the logo of the Queen's Anniversary Prize for a period of 4 years (until 18 February 2014) on all publicity material. To download the logo and read the guidelines, please go to the Queen's Anniversary Prize page under our Logos and Brand Guidelines section].
The University of East Anglia achieved some of the highest scores of any university in the country for its facilities in the 2010 Times Higher Education student survey, conducted by Opinionpanel. We were placed third for facilities and fifth overall. "[UEA] is among the best [universities] on virtually any grounds you care to mention."
The Virgin 2010 Alternative Guide to British Universities "UEA's LCR has been voted the best student venue in the country by the music industry's Live! magazine. Each year more than 50 live bands grace its stage."
The Virgin 2010 Alternative Guide to British Universities "The 2008 Research Assessment of British universities places UEA's History of Art, Film Studies, American Studies and International Development in the top three in the country, with Environmental Sciences and Pharmacy in the top ten."
The Virgin 2010 Alternative Guide to British Universities "UEA contributed more than any other university in the world to the 2007 Nobel Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change."
The Times Good University Guide 2010 "...the broad subject combinations which UEA pioneered from its origins in the 1960s are highly regarded in the academic world..."
The Times Good University Guide 2010 "The Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts [is] perhaps the greatest resource of its type on any British campus."
2009
The University of East Anglia is voted 3rd in the 2009 National Student Housing Survey for Best University Halls Award.
The University of East Anglia is ranked joint third mainstream English university for satisfaction in the 2009 National Student Survey. This means that the University has been in the top five for student satisfaction every year since the National Student Survey began. The University's overall satisfaction score of 90% is bettered only by Cambridge and Leicester among large English institutions in the survey, which also includes smaller colleges and specialist institutions.
The School of Pharmacy received a ringing endorsement from its students. Its 100% satisfaction ratings in the 2009 National Student Survey place it top in the UK, a remarkable achievement for the University's newest school of study.
"93.7% of UEA students go into employment or education six months after studying - scoring better than Oxford and Cambridge." Norwich Evening News 2009 (Based on the official HESA Employment Performance Indicator)
One of the top three universities in the world for geosciences. Thomson Reuters Essential Science Indicators 1999-2009
Norfolk was officially named the safest county in England after the launch of new crime figures on 24 June 2009. Norfolk has fewer crimes per 1,000 residents than any other English county.
Norfolk is the safest place in the country. Crime has fallen for six consecutive years and the county now has the lowest crime rate in England, according to Home Office figures Source: 2009 iQuanta rankings
Norfolk is the safest place in the country, with the lowest crime rate in England, according to Home Office figure Source: 2009 iQuanta rankings
The University of East Anglia has been voted top English university overall and the best in the UK for its accommodation and Student Union in the 2009. Whatuni Student Choice Awards
The University of East Anglia has been one of the most consistent performers in the National Student Survey, appearing in the top five English universities every year since the survey began.
Norwich, a top ten shopping city: Venuescore rankings of March 2009 rank Norwich eighth out of a list of 2,000 UK shopping destinations.
The University of East Anglia has been ranked as one of the top 10 in the country according to students.
UEA was rated as sixth in a list of 101 higher education institutions which took part in the annual Times Education Supplement student experience survey. EDP Jan 2009
UEA was rated joint top mainstream university for student satisfaction - a key measure of academic and teaching excellence. The Complete University Guide 2009
Around 90 per cent of UEA research is rated of international or national excellence in the latest Research Assessment Exercise. The Complete University Guide 2009
The Times Good University Guide 2009 ranked the University 23rd out of 113 institutions in the UK, whilst the most recent Sunday Times University Guide placed it 22nd out of 123 institutions.
UEA’s Elizabeth Fry building praised as one of the most energy efficient non-domestic buildings in the UK. The Ecologist 1/6/09
UEA comes 8th in a league table for British academic architecture. Architects' Journal Online 26/10/09
2008
The results of the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise have confirmed the University if East Anglia as one of the leading research institutions in the UK.
The University of East Anglia wins the Times Higher Education 2008 Award for Project of the Year for Professor Tim Lenton's groundbreaking work on climate change tipping points.
Student satisfaction figures for 2008 published by the Higher Education Funding Council for England show that the University of East Anglia is bettered only by Cambridge and on a par with Oxford, among mainstream English universities. For the fourth year in succession – ever since the National Student Survey began – students have given their UEA courses a ringing endorsement, but this year’s 92% overall satisfaction figure is the University’s best ever result.
Happier students than those at UEA are hard to find. The first four national student surveys have seen them record some of the highest satisfaction scores in the UK. While success in the survey is often hard to pin down, in UEA’s case it must be due in great part to the sheer quality of the teaching and the distinctiveness of the surroundings. Sunday Times Good University Guide, September 2008
No.1 for Accommodation Quality in terms of satisfied students. Student Barometer 2008
No.1 for Accommodation Cost in terms of satisfied students. Student Barometer 2008
Teaching excellence in 18 subjects is backed up by a research profile that put UEA well within the top 20 nationally at the time of the last assessments, published in 2001. The new UK-wide review of research quality due out in the coming weeks is likely to see the university lift its profile further. Sunday Times Good University Guide, September 2008
Recent major reviews of nursing and Allied Health Professions brought UEA the highest accolades possible. Quality of teaching was given a very respectable 4.2 out of 5 in the 2006 National Student Survey. UEA has been in the top five for overall student satisfaction for the past two years. The Independent, July 2008
The University of East Anglia tops the Independent and Complete University Guide league table looking at the best universities for sport. We received the highest total of 43 stars out of 44 for our facilities. This means that UEA students have more access to more facilities, intra mural sport and activity classes than any other university in Britain. June 2008
An excellent reputation and a wide mix of courses. Guardian Education Guide, May 2008
The projects that broke new ground. Elizabeth Fry Building at UEA is listed as one of 30 building projects that have reshaped the building environment over last three decades. Building Services Journal, 9 August 2008
"UEA is a top uni with an independent streak and a host of interesting specialisms." The Virgin 2008 Alternative Guide to British Universities
The most complete medieval city in Britain has everything you could desire of a vibrant regional capital. The Guardian/Observer Travel Awards 2008
2007
The Times Higher's annual student survey on university experience, which polled over 22,000 undergraduates on a spectrum of factors about higher education, has seen us rated fifth, reinforcing the strong performance in the National Student Survey. December 2007
UEA ranked 20 in the 2007 Times Good University Guide.
UEA is a top five English mainstream university for the third consecutive year in the 2007 National Student Survey.
Norwich is the only city in the UK to have won a prestigious worldwide award given to cities deemed to be great places to live. The International Awards for Liveable Communities, 2007
UEA is ranked in the Top 20 in the online Good University Guide 2007
UEA is ranked 22nd in the Sunday Times University Guide 2007
Norwich is the first English city to be admitted to the prestigious World League of Historical Cities, which includes Prague, Vienna, Barcelona, Budapest and Quebec. 2007
UEA is one of the 49 British Universities among the top 500 in the world as published in the THES-QS World University Rankings 2007.
2006
According to the New Scientist in 2006, UEA and its partners on the Norwich Research Park have given Norwich one of the greatest concentrations of 'most highly cited researchers' in the UK - bettered only by London, Cambridge and Oxford.
"With successive 5* ratings for research and an excellent teaching grade, environmental sciences is the flagship school." The Times Good University Guide 2006
"The University is engaged in an ambitious building programme . . . and has added extensive new sports facilities." The Times Good University Guide 2006
"Health studies have been among UEA's fastest-developing areas, and the University has achieved its ultimate ambition with the establishment of one of the first new medical schools for 20 years." The Times Good University Guide 2006
"Sporting facilities are excellent." The Times Good University Guide 2006
"The University of East Anglia is famous for its creative writing degree, but it has also succeeded in establishing an international reputation for its work in environmental sciences and development studies." The Guardian University Guide 2006
"Norwich is one of the top 10 shopping centres in the UK." The Guardian University Guide 2006
"The campus is home to the biggest university sports complex in the UK." The Guardian University Guide 2006
UEA is ranked fourth in the top UK universities for published research papers by Thomson Scientific Ranks UK Research in Science Watch.
UEA is ranked joint first for student satisfaction among mainstream English universities in the National Student Survey.
A report by the Independent has named Norwich as one of the top 10 "coolest" places to be a student in the UK.
UEA is one of the best places in the country to train to be a teacher, according to new data published by the Training and Development Agency for Schools.
The University of East Anglia is ranked 19th in the 2006 Sunday Times University League Table.
2005
UEA is named one of the UK's top three universities for student satisfaction in the first ever National Student Survey.
UEA is shortlisted for the University of the Year award by the Sunday Times.
UEA is ranked one of the top 200 universities in the world in an annual survey conducted by Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
UEA was rated "excellent" for American Studies by the Sunday Times in September 2004.
