Located in London, England, Goldsmiths University of London is a public research university that was founded in 1891 and was acquired by the University of London in 1904. The total number of undergraduate and postgraduate students is 9,259 of which 3,409 are international.

  • Goldsmiths University of London offers undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in business, social sciences, arts, humanities and, computing.
  • The average tuition fee for undergraduates programs in the university is around 12 LPA.
  • Campus of the university has a lot of facilities for its students with a peaceful learning environment.
  • Some of the notable alumni of this university include Damon Albarn, John Austin, Chris Beckett, Henry Bond, Lucy Caldwell, Jack Chalker, Kerry McCarthy, Joanna Nadin, Richard Patterson, Fiona Rae, San Win, etc.

Goldsmiths University of London Ranking Highlights

  • Ranked #416th according to QS global world ranking 2020-2021.
  • Ranked between #401-500 according to Times Higher Education Rankings 2020-2021.
  • #1192nd in U.S. News and World Report global rankings in Best global universities.
  • National Rank #90th according to Center for World University Rankings 2020-2021.
  • Ranked #105, #68 and, #97 in national rankings of United Kindom which are published annually by The Complete, The Guardian and, Times/Sunday Times in 2021.
  • Classified Bronze in Teaching Excellence Framework.

Goldsmiths, University of London World rankings

Goldsmiths University of London’s rank was constantly uprising in QS global world rankings but in the year 2020, it went down to #417 however it again showed improvement by 1 position in 2021 and placed at #416 in 2021.

  • In Times Higher Education ranking the university had placed in 301-350 in the years 2017, 2018 but in 2020 it held the rank between 351-400 and in 2021 it positioned at 401-500 on the ranking.
  • According to U.S. News and World Report rankings, the university was ranked #1192.
  • The Center for World University Rankings placed the university at #1766th rank in 2020-2021 in the world.

The table below shows Goldsmiths, University of London’s current and previous years’ global ranks with ranking agencies:

Agency 2019-2020 2020-2021
QS global world rankings 417 416
THE rankings 351-400 401-500
CWUR 1669 1766

Goldsmiths University of London rankings: QS Rankings 2021

The QS global world rankings have ranked the institute based on 6 parameters. The following tables show the scores earned by the institute in each parameter in 2021 :

Criteria Score
Academic reputation 20
Employer reputation 8.7
Faculty Student 18.3
Citations per faculty 26.7
International faculty 86.7
International students 96.4

The overall score received by the university is 27.2.

Goldsmiths, University of London: Times Higher Education Rankings 2021

The different criteria used by the Times Higher Education rankings to rank the institute are given below table with a graphical representation of the same:

Criteria Scores
Teaching 26.2
Research 27.0
Citations 59.5
Industry Income 33.3
International Outlook 81.0

Apart from this, the institute had ranked #126-150 in European Teaching the year 2019. The parameters that THE rankings use to rank in European teaching are:

Parameters Score
Resources 51.7
Engagement 70.5
Outcomes 69.6
Environment 48.8

Goldsmiths, University of London CWUR Ranking

CWUR ranks the Universities based on 4 main parameters such as Quality of Education, Alumni Employment, Quality of Faculty, and Research Performance. It ranked the university based on 2 parameters i.e. Quality of education and Research performance. As per, CWUR rankings Goldsmiths, the University of London has been ranked at the #1766th position in the world among 2000 universities.

Given below are the rankings of the University in terms of two parameters:

Parameter Rank
Quality of education rank 303
Research performance rank 1714

The overall score received by the university in CWUR is 66.7.

Goldsmiths, University of London U.S. News Ranking

The university has secured the #1192nd rank according to the U.S. News and World Report rankings this year in best global universities. Also, #465th in the best global universities in Europe. The agency ranked the institute based on the following indicators:

Indicators Rank
Global research reputation #331
Regional research reputation #345
Publications #1549
Books #161
Conferences #1423
Normalized citation impact #860
Total citations #1417
Number of publications among the 10% most cited #1372
International collaborations #1132
International collaborations relative to the country #1691
Number of highly cited papers among the top 1% most cited #1613
% of highly cited papers among the top 1% most cited #1564
% of total publications among 10% most cited #889

The global score of the institute according to this agency is 31.2.

Goldsmiths University of London National Rankings

Goldsmiths University of London has consistently been ranked among the top 100 Universities of UK according to the agencies- U.S. News and World Report, CWUR, the Guardian, The Complete and Times/Sunday Times. Given below are the national rankings for the institute of the current year:

Agency National Rank (2021)
The Guardian #105
Complete #68
Times/Sunday Times #97
CWUR #90
U.S. News and World Report #78

Each of the agency uses different parameters to rank institutes. Some of the parameters which these agencies follow to rank the university are Student Satisfaction, Research Quality and, performances, ratings by members of the academic community, Graduate prospects, completion rate, Career after 15 months, etc.

Goldsmiths University of LondonSubject-Wise Ranking

Various subjects have made it to the global and the country rankings by some of the world’s top-ranking agencies. The below-mentioned table shows the subject wise global rankings by Times Higher Education(THE) of the programs offered by Goldsmiths University of London :

Subjects 2021 Rankings
Arts and humanities #176-200
Social Sciences #101-125
Psychology #176-200
Education #201-250

The different criterion used by the Times Higher Education to rank the subjects are:

  • Teaching, research,
  • citations,
  • industry income,
  • and international outlook.

Subject-wise rankings of Goldsmiths University of London according to U.S. News and World Reports are:

Subject Rank
Arts and humanities #186
Social Sciences and Public health #498

Goldsmiths, University of London is one of the best globally ranked universities to study in UK. For the last 5 years, it has maintained a respectable position at various global rankings. If you look at previous year’s rankings of different agencies it has dropped a few places.