| # | University | City | World rank | In-country | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 51 | Ulster University | #559 (2025) | #50 | 3,650,032 | |
| 52 | University of Plymouth | #561 (2024) | #51 | 2,308,524 | |
| 53 | Nottingham Trent University | #592 (2025) | #52 | 1,166,216 | |
| 54 | Goldsmiths College, University of London | #593 (2024) | #53 | 605,297 | |
| 55 | University of Portsmouth | #662 (2027) | #54 | 2,385,737 | |
| 56 | University of Liverpool | not ranked | #56 | 18,971,242 | |
| 57 | University of London | not ranked | #58 | 7,083,252 | |
| 58 | University of Durham | not ranked | #59 | 7,080,548 | |
| 59 | Keele University | not ranked | #63 | 2,436,240 | |
| 60 | Liverpool John Moores University | not ranked | #67 | 2,094,952 | |
| 61 | Aberystwyth University | not ranked | #69 | 1,667,861 | |
| 62 | University of Hertfordshire | not ranked | #68 | 1,655,182 | |
| 63 | University of Salford | not ranked | #70 | 1,491,691 | |
| 64 | Northumbria University | not ranked | #71 | 1,475,484 | |
| 65 | University of the West of England, Bristol | not ranked | #73 | 1,393,898 | |
| 66 | Sheffield Hallam University | not ranked | #77 | 825,856 | |
| 67 | University of Greenwich | not ranked | #79 | 789,961 | |
| 68 | Anglia Ruskin University | not ranked | #82 | 651,953 | |
| 69 | University of Wolverhampton | not ranked | #84 | 589,909 | |
| 70 | Kingston University | not ranked | #86 | 570,955 | |
| 71 | University of Westminster | London | not ranked | #87 | 548,280 |
| 72 | Staffordshire University | not ranked | #95 | 383,048 | |
| 73 | London Metropolitan University | not ranked | #98 | 325,129 | |
| 74 | Roehampton University of Surrey | not ranked | #100 | 302,710 | |
| 75 | Scotland's Rural College (SRUC) | not ranked | #101 | 292,982 | |
| 76 | Edge Hill University | England | not ranked | #103 | 221,046 |
| 77 | Canterbury Christ Church University | not ranked | #104 | 205,038 | |
| 78 | University of Bolton | not ranked | #105 | 190,875 | |
| 79 | University of Chester | not ranked | #99 | 189,668 | |
| 80 | University of Gloucestershire | not ranked | #106 | 189,486 | |
| 81 | University of Abertay Dundee | not ranked | #108 | 172,383 | |
| 82 | University of Northampton | not ranked | #109 | 170,059 | |
| 83 | Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London | not ranked | #111 | 127,889 | |
| 84 | University of Cumbria | not ranked | #112 | 94,136 | |
| 85 | York St. John University | not ranked | #113 | 85,140 | |
| 86 | Bath Spa University | not ranked | #119 | 68,394 | |
| 87 | University Campus Suffolk | not ranked | #116 | 65,494 | |
| 88 | St Mary's University | not ranked | #122 | 54,633 | |
| 89 | Southampton Solent University | not ranked | #123 | 51,127 | |
| 90 | University of the Arts London | not ranked | #125 | 43,589 | |
| 91 | Royal College of Art | not ranked | #124 | 40,446 | |
| 92 | Leeds Trinity University | not ranked | #127 | 37,398 | |
| 93 | London School of Business & Finance | not ranked | #128 | 33,460 | |
| 94 | Royal College of Music, University of London | not ranked | #130 | 22,600 | |
| 95 | Glasgow School of Art | not ranked | #129 | 18,778 | |
| 96 | Falmouth University | not ranked | #131 | 14,460 | |
| 97 | City St George's, University of London | not ranked | #134 | 7,239 | |
| 98 | HULT Business School | not ranked | #136 | 5,168 | |
| 99 | The American University in London | not ranked | #142 | 1,208 | |
| 100 | London Interdisciplinary School | not ranked | — | 333 |
What the two columns mean
In-country is the position the ranking record gives the university among those in its own country, and it is often the more useful number: a university ranked 480th in the world may still be third at home. It is carried over as published, so it does not always follow the order of the other two columns. World rank is the university's QS World University Rankings position. Citations are the number of times work published by the university has been cited, as recorded in OpenAlex; it is the measure used to order universities that QS does not rank at all.
The two do not always agree. A large research university can out-cite a smaller one that sits above it in QS, because QS weighs reputation surveys and staff ratios as well as research.