The University of East Anglia (UEA) is celebrating a number of subject-level successes, as well as a rise to 22^nd place in the overall table, in the Complete University Guide (CUG) rankings 2022 released today (Tuesday 8 June).

UEA jumped three places from 25^th to 22^nd in the annual ranking table, which is based on ten criteria, including student satisfaction, degree completion and graduate prospects.

The University maintained its national position in 12^th in the ‘Facilities Spend’ metric, assessing how much universities spend on amenities such as careers, health and counselling services, and sports, and rose to 16^th in ‘Student-Staff ratio’, which measures staffing levels.

The CUG rankings also include subject-specific tables for universities, with UEA enjoying climbs from last year in over a dozen of these.

Most notable among the improvements was Chemistry, which made a significant jump of 19 places from 25^th to 6^th in the UK, and American Studies which entered the top five (5^th place), having been 9^th in 2021.

Prof Nick Le Brun, Head of UEA’s School of Chemistry, said: “This is excellent news for us and we’re all delighted in Chemistry, this is the culmination of a lot of hard work by a lot of people.”

Dr Malcolm McLaughlin, Head of UEA’s School of Art, Media and American Studies, said: “I am delighted to see American Studies making quite rapid progress after such a challenging year for the whole academic community.

“We’ve been working hard in all our endeavours in research and scholarship, in our public engagement work, and of course in supporting our students in their learning, in a year when we have had to do all of this while negotiating nationwide lockdowns and restrictions on international travel. It’s so rewarding to see those efforts recognised in this way.”

UEA had three other subject-based top tens, with a climb from 9^th to 8^th for Creative Writing, and two new subject areas also jumping straight in to the top ten in the country having not been ranked last year: Speech and Language Therapy (5^th) and Paramedic Science (10^th).

Elsewhere, there were notable jumps for the University in an impressive number of other subject areas:

• Drama, Dance and Creatives – a rise of eight places to 19^th
• Philosophy – a rise of ten places to 28^th
• Psychology – a rise of eight places to 28^th
• Economics – a rise of six places to 28^th
• Biological Sciences – a rise of nine places to 30^th
• Computer Sciences – a rise of eight places to 32^nd
• English – a rise of seven places to 33^rd
• Maths – a rise of seven places to 37^th

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