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Our awards and accreditations

Highlights

Gold overall rating

Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) 2023

5 QS Stars overall rating

QS Stars University Ratings

Rated Gold for Student Experience

Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) 2023

Ranked 19th Modern University in UK

The Complete University Guide 2025

Top 50

Five years running, Guardian University Guide (2019-2024)

Rated Silver for Student Outcomes

Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) 2023

Queen’s Award

Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) 2023

No.1 in UK

for International Student Diversity, QS Europe University Rankings 2024

1st Class University

Environmental and Ethical Performance, People & Planet University League 2023/24

Ranked in the top 50%

Top 50% of UK Universities for Research Power, Times Higher Education analysis of REF 20215 QS Stars for Online Learning, QS Stars University Ratings

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Complete University Guide

Coventry University is ranked joint 68th in the UK by the Complete University Guide 2025. The guide also ranks the university as the 19th Modern University in the UK. We are joint 18th in the UK for Student Satisfaction and joint 11th in UK for Student: Staff Ratio. We were also featured in the top 30 across the following subject areas:

  • 6th for Health Studies
  • 10th for Paramedic Science
  • 16th for Nursing & Midwifery
  • 17th for Counselling, Psychotherapy & Occupational Therapy
  • 17th for Information Technology and Systems
  • 17th for Building
  • 21st for Food Science
  • 23rd for Manufacturing and Production Engineering
  • 29th for Tourism, Transport, Travel and Heritage Studies

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Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF)

Our teaching was rated Gold in the latest TEF, confirming the excellence of the undergraduate teaching carried out at Coventry.

The TEF assesses universities on the quality of their teaching by looking at measures including student satisfaction, student retention rates and graduate employment levels. Its award ratings of Gold, Silver and Bronze are valid for up to three years. The TEF Gold awarded to Coventry University reflects that, as a higher education provider, we deliver consistently outstanding teaching, learning and outcomes for our students, and that the provision is amongst the highest quality found in the UK.

The TEF Panel said we have: “embedded outstanding teaching, feedback and assessment practices that are highly effective and tailored to supporting its students' learning, progression, and attainment.”

In its concluding remarks on Coventry University Group’s overall gold rating, it said the university offered “outstanding quality provision for all groups of students and courses.”

It added: “The panel considered there to be compelling evidence that the outstanding and very high-quality features apply to all the provider’s groups of students, including students from underrepresented groups which comprise a high proportion of the provider’s students.”

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Guardian University Guide

Coventry University is ranked joint 68th in the UK by the Complete University Guide 2025. The guide also ranks the university as the 19th Modern University in the UK. We are joint 18th in the UK for Student Satisfaction and joint 11th in UK for Student: Staff Ratio. We were also featured in the top 30 across the following subject areas:

  • 1st for Mental Health Nursing
  • 5th for Health Professions
  • 5th for Aerospace Engineering
  • 5th for Media and Film Studies
  • 6th for Physiotherapy
  • 7th for Journalism
  • Joint 7th for Fashion and Textiles
  • 8th for Midwifery
  • 10th for Interior Design
  • 11th for Children’s Nursing
  • 15th for General Nursing
  • 16th for Mechanical Engineering
  • 17th for Construction, Surveying and Planning
  • Joint 17th for Paramedic Science
  • 20th for International Relations

QS Star ratings

Our teaching was rated Gold in the latest TEF, confirming the excellence of the undergraduate teaching carried out at Coventry.

The TEF assesses universities on the quality of their teaching by looking at measures including student satisfaction, student retention rates and graduate employment levels. Its award ratings of Gold, Silver and Bronze are valid for up to three years. The TEF Gold awarded to Coventry University reflects that, as a higher education provider, we deliver consistently outstanding teaching, learning and outcomes for our students, and that the provision is amongst the highest quality found in the UK.

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QS awarded five stars across the following areas:

  • Teaching (including full marks for teaching satisfaction)
  • Employability (including full marks for our graduate employment prospects)
  • Facilities
  • Internationalisation
  • Global Engagement
  • Innovation & Knowledge Transfer
  • Inclusiveness
  • Online Learning

We achieved four stars in the research category, highlighting the world-leading research undertaken across the group.

In addition, Coventry University gained a Specialist Criteria ranking of four stars for its Civil and Structural Engineering degree.

Employability was the strongest of the core criteria, earning a perfect 150 points and five stars in this category.

The employability opportunities provided by Coventry University for its students are reflected by its impressive graduate employment rate of 97 per cent.

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The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide

Coventry University was ranked 58th in the UK in The Times and The Sunday Times Good University Guide 2024, ranking highly across student surveys, teaching, student experience and graduate prospects, and maintaining our status as a high-performing institution.

We are ranked in the top 30 across the following subject areas:

  • 18th for Art and Design
  • 21st for Hospitality, Leisure, Recreation and Tourism
  • Joint 29th for Education

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National Student Survey (NSS)

In the National Student Survey 2023, Coventry University were ranked 6th Midlands HEI for Learning Opportunities and 6th Midlands HEI for Assessment and feedback.

We are 7th Midlands HEI for Teaching on my course, 8th Midlands HEI for Learning Resources and 13th Modern University for Student Voice.

 

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QS Five Star Rating 2023