Our rankings and statistics
We are proud of the education, experience and support we provide to our students, as well as our international reputation for research and knowledge exchange.
Top 3 modern university in London
Complete University Guide 2025
Ranked in the top 15% in the world
Times Higher Education Young University Rankings 2024
#8 in England for undergraduate student satisfaction
National Student Survey 2024
Top ten in the UK for postgraduate student satisfaction
Postgraduate Taught Experience Survey 2022, 2023
Jointly recognised as the best modern university in the country for research excellence
REF 2021
Silver in the Teaching Excellence Framework for delivering high quality teaching, learning and outcomes
Teaching Excellence Framework 2023
The National Students Survey
We are particularly proud of our performance in the last NSS.
This is an independent, national survey of the views and experiences of third year undergraduate students. It helps us know what we do best, what needs to change, and helps prospective students understand the education they’ll receive. We were ranked:
- #8 in England for undergraduate student satisfaction
- #1 in London and top 3 in the UK for student voice
- Top 3 in London for satisfaction with teaching quality, academic support, learning support, learning opportunities, and assessment and feedback
- Top 10 in the UK for learning opportunities, student voice, assessment, and feedback.
Subject experts
As well as our strong statistics as a university, we perform strongly across a range of our subject specialisms.
- Biosciences: #1 in London for student satisfaction in Biosciences (NSS 2024)
- Business: Top 10 in the UK for student satisfaction in Business and Management (NSS 2024)
- Computer Science: Top 5 in London for student satisfaction in Computer Science (NSS 2024)
- Dance: Top 6 in London for Dance (Complete University Guide 2025)
- Economics: #1 in London for student satisfaction in Economics (NSS 2024)
- English: Top 5 in London for English (Guardian University Guide 2024)
- History: Top modern university in London in History (Complete University Guide 2025)
- Law: Top 10 in London for student satisfaction in Law (NSS 2024)
- Nursing: Top 10 in the UK for Nursing (Guardian University Guide 2024)
- Psychology: Top 3 in London for student satisfaction in Counselling and Psychotherapy (NSS 2024)
- Sociology: Top modern university in London in Sociology (Complete University Guide 2025)
- Sports Science: 4th in the UK for graduate prospects in Sports Science (Times Good University Guide 2024)
- Teacher training: Ofsted rates our primary age courses as "Outstanding"
(2023 report) - Zoology: Best modern university in the UK for Zoology
(Guardian University Guide 2024).
Looking for the perfect course?
Take a look at the range of subjects offered at Roehampton, and the different undergraduate and postgraduate courses you can take.
Our students
Our community of students come from just down the road and across the world.
You’ll be joining a global community of students and alumni from over 140 countries and will benefit from this growing network of connections throughout your career. We have around 20,000 students across our undergraduate and postgraduate courses.
We were recognised with a Silver in the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) for delivering high quality teaching, learning and outcomes for our students.
The review panel commended us for:
- Embedding very high-quality teaching, feedback and assessment practices that are effective in supporting students’ learning, progression, and attainment
- Use of research in relevant disciplines, innovation, scholarship, professional practice and employer engagement to contribute to a very high-quality academic experience
- Effective engagement with students leading to improvements to student experiences and outcomes
- Very high rates of successful progression for the university’s students and courses.
The Research Excellence Framework
We are jointly recognised as the best modern university in the country for research, and the highest-ranked modern university in London.
What does this mean for our students? They get to learn from global experts, and cover topics and research at the forefront of their fields of study.
It also means our students get to join a thriving, research-active community. Every semester there are opportunities to go along to seminars, discussions and workshops, hear from internationally recognised guest speakers, and take part in research studies being led by staff and students.
- 77% of the research we submitted has been ranked ‘world leading’ or ‘internationally excellent’, an increase of 11% since REF2014
- We have been ranked 51 (of 129 institutions) overall by GPA, an increase of nine places since REF2014.
