University of Glasgow Rankings in the world have been enviable and improving over the span of the past few years. Ranked among the top 100 universities across the globe by agencies like Quacquarelli Symonds (QS), Times Higher Education, and US News, the university has also been recognized for its excellence in education and training within the nation.

Ranked #18 as per Times Higher Education for its European Impact teaching, this university is recognized for its modern learning environment and an extensive choice of study abroad destinations that are offered to its students.

MBA program of the University of Glasgow is recognized among the top 100 in the world by The Economist rankings (2019). This reputation brought about 1500 international students to pursue MBA at Adam Smith Business School of the University.

As a part of the Russell Group- leading research universities in UK, the University of Glasgow offers one of the largest research bases in the country. It is also a founding member of Universitas 21 and the Guild of European Research-Intensive Universities.

University of Glasgow Ranking in World

With an existence of over 500 years, the university has gained Fairtrade Status (2nd university in Scotland to gain this status), received the Bronze award by Athena SWAN (Scientific Women's Academic Network), and a Queen’s Anniversary Prize for Higher and further education. The global position of the world’s fourth oldest English-speaking university in the world is as follows:

Ranking Agency 2023 Rankings 2022 Rankings 2021 Rankings 2020 Rankings
Quacquarelli Symonds #81 #73 #77 #67
Times Higher Education - #86 #92 #99
US News and World Reports - #84 #86 #89
ARWU (Academic Ranking for World Universities) - #101-150 #151-200 #151-200
CWUR (Center for World University Rankings) - #126 #126 #137
NTU (Performance Ranking of Scientific Paper for World University Rankings) - - - #114

Apart from being recognized globally, the university is also made its appearance in the following world rankings:

  • QS Graduate Employability Rankings: #131-140
  • CWUR Research Performance Rankings:#119
  • The Economist MBA Rankings: #99
  • In the top 5 of Russell Group for Student Satisfaction

University of Glasgow Rankings: QS

University of Glasgow has been ranking among the top 100 global universities since 2014. The 2023 University of Glasgow QS rankings are 81. The university rankings had dropped since 2015, however, an improvement is observed in the university’s 2020 rankings. The parameters on which QS generates an overall score for the university are discussed in detail below:

Parameter for Overall Ranking Score Weightage
Academic Reputation 64.6 40%
Employer Reputation 75.1 10%
Faculty: Student 50.5 20%
Citations per Faculty 34.7 20%
International Faculty 95.5 5%
International Students 98.9 5%

The overall score obtained by University of Glasgow is 64.6. The global graduate employability for University of Glasgow is:

Year Ranks
2017 #151-200
2018 #181-190
2019 #151-160
2020 #131-140
2022 #131-140

With an improving ranking of graduate employability from the past 3 years, it is considered that pursuing a graduate degree program from University of Glasgow lands students with cushy median salaries in the UK and across the world.

University of Glasgow Rankings: US News

Currently honoured #84 position globally with a global score of 72.8, US News caters to a variety of parameters for ranking the university. These parameters along with the relative rank of the University of Glasgow are given below:

Ranking Indicators Relative Ranks Weightage
Global research reputation #136 12.5%
Regional research reputation #142 12.5%
Publications #168 10%
Books  #52 2.5%
Conferences  #237 2.5%
Normalized citation impact #69 10%
Total Citations #121 7.5%
Number of publications among 10% most cited #133 12.5%
Percentage of total publication that is among 10% most cited  #84 10%
International collaboration- relative to country #582 5%
International collaboration #258 5%
Number of highly cited papers among top 1% of the field #93 5%
Percentage of total publications that are among top 1% most highly cited papers  #54 5%

US News ranks the University of Glasgow #26 among the best schools in Europe.

University of Glasgow Rankings: Times Higher Education

Times Higher education Ranking agency ranks popular universities on the basis of various parameters. As one of the famous institution for study in UK, the following is the scorecard of University of Glasgow’s as per THE rankings is as follows:

Parameter Weightage Score
Teaching 30% 41.9
Research 30% 49.9
Citations 30% 94
Industry Income  7.5% 40.7
International Outlook 2.5% 93.1
Overall - 63.7

University of Glasgow Rankings: ARWU

As per Academic Ranking of World Universities, the University of Glasgow has always ranked among top 200 universities in the world. Irrespective of its slightly lower position in ARWU rankings, University of Glasgow is still considered as one of the top ranking universities in UK. It is one of the universities with the maximum number of international students in UK. Given below are the rankings of the university for past 5 years

Year Ranks
2016 #151-200
2017 #101-150
2018 #151-200
2019 #151-200
2020 #151-200
2021 #151-200
2022 #101-150

University of Glasgow Rankings: CWRU

CWRU rankings rank a university on 5 major parameters: World Ranking, Quality of Education Ranking, Alumni Employment Rankings, Quality of Faculty, and Research Performance Rankings. Given below is a comparison of the University of Glasgow’s ranking for the year of 2019-20 and 2020-21.

University of Glasgow Rankings: CWRU

The overall score that CWUR gives to University of Glasgow for its 2020-21 rankings is 81.0.

University of Glasgow: National Rankings

The University of Glasgow is among Scotland’s four ancient universities. It was a part of the Scottish Enlightenment in the 18th century with 3 other universities in UK- University of Aberdeen, Edinburgh, and St. Andrews University. Along with other 23 member universities, University of Glasgow is involved in producing an economic output of over 32 billion GBP every year.

University of Glasgow is recognized among the top universities in the country with the maximum number of international students pursuing their higher education. Around 8000 international students make up the total student body at University of Glasgow. Given below are the national rankings for University of Glasgow:

Agency 2021 2020-21
US News #8 #9
THE #11 #11
QS #11 #11
CWRU - #12

University of Glasgow: Subject Rankings 

University of Glasgow offers 196 bachelor programs, 297 master's programs, and 100 PG diploma and certificate programs. However, the most popular programs among the students are computer science, international business, mechanical engineering, MBA, and LLM. Some of the popular program and subject area rankings for the University of Glasgow are listed below:

US News & World Report

  • Cardiac and cardiovascular systems: #11
  • Microbiology: #51
  • Clinical Medicine: #55
  • Arts & Humanities: #86
  • Neuroscience and Behavior: #58
  • Physics: #52
  • Immunology: #116
  • Biology & Biochemistry: #102

THE World Rankings by Subject

  • Arts & humanities- #80
  • Clinical & Pre-health- #49
  • Life sciences- #101-125
  • Business & economics- #100

Located in UK’s third-largest city and top study city-destination abroad, the University of Glasgow offers a student not only with world class education and training, research opportunities but also offers a campus life that helps them explore. Pursuing higher education in the UK helps a student in building a career in any of the nations abroad because of the education system and hands-on opportunities offered by these universities.