StudentCrowd University Awards 2025

Discover the results for StudentCrowd's University Awards 2025#

The results are in! We are so excited to be able to announce the winners of the StudentCrowd University Awards 2025.

To create these UK university rankings, we analysed a whopping 32,097 verified student reviews submitted on StudentCrowd between May 2023 and May 2025, across 11 different categories that students rated out of 5 stars. These awards cover all of the most important aspects of university life and are the only awards based 100% on reviews from verified students studying in the UK, using their ac.uk email address.

Explore the categories below to see the top universities in 2025.

How were the winners selected?#

Winners were selected based on their StudentCrowd rating over a two-year period from May 2023 to May 2025. The average review scores are across our university, course and accommodation review categories. In order to be eligible for an award a university needs to have a total of 100 reviews across our three review areas.

Why are these awards the only ones that matter?#

We at StudentCrowd believe the best people to tell you what university life is really like are students themselves. That's why we created the StudentCrowd platform, to give students an unfiltered space to share their unbiased experiences with other students. And it's not just us that think reviews are important. In 2020, UCAS discovered that “online reviews by students” was the 2nd most important resource for applicants choosing a university. University reviews are becoming central to university decision making for both UK and international students.

That’s why StudentCrowd’s Best Universities league tables have become a go-to resource for many students exploring UK university rankings. What sets our awards apart is that they're based entirely on verified student reviews. Every review comes from a real student using an .ac.uk email address — so you can trust that the feedback is both authentic and first-hand.