Glasgow University named best in Scotland

The University of Glasgow has been named Scottish University of the Year by an annual guide.

The institution climbed nine places to feature inside the UK’S top 20 as ranked by The Times and The Sunday Times Good University Guide 2018.

St Andrews remains the top-ranked Scottish university – and third in the UK – but Glasgow has been named university of the year for improvements in six of the nine performance indicators including teaching, student experience and graduate prospects.

The university has also been praised for its expansion plans in the city’s west end. Alastair Mccall, editor of The Sunday Times Good University Guide, said: “Glasgow has secured the rare double of being both Scottish University of the Year and securing a shortlisting for the UK University of the Year title. Both are welldeserved. Ranked second among Scottish institutions in our league table after a jump of nine places this year, the university is going places. It is in the midst of one of the biggest capital spends for a Scottish university – around £1 billion over the next decade – with the redevelopment of the former Western Infirmary site.”