RAE2008 Results for History and Classics

The number of History staff at Edinburgh ranked world-leading or internationally excellent in RAE2008 was the highest of any university in Scotland and the third highest in the UK, an achievement exceeded only by Oxford and Cambridge. The panel reported that in Research Environment,"the majority of the activity was outstanding, the rest excellent". Esteem Indicators "were found overall to be outstanding", giving a joint overall score of 4* (or world leading) in these categories.

Sixty percent of the 60.98 full time equivalent staff included in the assessment were awarded the top 4* and 3* grades. This equates to 36.6 full time equivalent staff members.

A further 8.1 full time equivalent staff within the School of History, Classics and Archaeology were also ranked world-leading or internationally excellent by the Classics RAE Panel.

Thus, collectively, History and Classics at Edinburgh have the third highest numbers of 4* and 3* staff within these disciplines in the UK.

UoA 62 HISTORY RESULTS:

SCOTLAND

Rank	Institution name	Combined % 3* & 4*	FTE Category A staff submitted	Number of staff in 3* & 4*
1	University of Edinburgh	60	60.98	36.59
2	University of St Andrews	60	41.49	24.89
3	University of Glasgow	60	41.00	24.60
4	University of Aberdeen	60	25.60	15.36
5	University of Dundee	65	16.00	10.40
6	University of Stirling	50	18.50	9.25
7	University of Strathclyde	40	15.10	6.04
8	Glasgow Caledonian University	35	7.00	2.45

Rank	Institution name	Combined % 3* & 4*	FTE Category A staff submitted	Number of staff in 3* & 4*
1	University of Oxford	70	109.00	76.30
2	University of Cambridge	65	102.00	66.30
3	University of Edinburgh	60	60.98	36.59
4	University College London	65	49.00	31.85
5	London School of Economics and Political Science	65	48.35	31.43
6	University of Warwick	75	36.75	27.56
7	University of St Andrews	60	41.49	24.89

The University's position as one of the world's leading research universities has been reaffirmed by the 2008 UK RAE results. Read more...