Please note: The College did not submit the Department of Economics for assessment, as the department was established only in August 1995, very close to the end of the assessment period.
Drama 5* Music 5* Classics 5 French 5 Geography 5 History 5 Italian 5 Psychology 5 Computer Science 4 English 4 Geology 4 Physics 4 Pure Mathematics 4 Applied Mathematics 3A German 3A Management 3A Social Policy & Social Science 3A Biological Sciences 3B
These results gave the College an overall weighted average of 4.2, with 8 departments rated 5* or 5, and a further 5 departments being rated 4, confirming Royal Holloway's position as a leading research university institution.
Various newspapers have prepared league tables based on these results. Royal Holloway is particularly pleased that, on the criteria adopted by The Guardian -- that is, the proportion of staff in departments of international standard (ie, grades 5* and 5), Royal Holloway was placed 13th= in the list of 104 universities, having 46% of staff in these departments.
Proportion of staff in departments doing research of international standard (grades 5 and 5*)
The definitive results of the 1996 Research Assessment Exercise can be found on the NISS RAE96 page.
1 Oxford 92 2 Cambridge 89 3 LSE 83 4 Imperial College 76 5 University College London 66 6 Bath 65 7 Sussex 51 8 Bristol 50 9 Warwick 49 10 Edinburgh 47 10 UMIST 47 10 York 47 13 Royal Holloway 46 13 Cardiff 46 15 Lancaster 44 16 Durham 43 16 Southampton 43 18 Birkbeck 42 19 Cranfield 41 19 Sheffield 41 21 Leeds 40 21 University of East Anglia 40