Faculty of Life Sciences Rankings

Find out the latest national and international rankings for the UCL Faculty of Life Sciences

Times Higher

UCL has been awarded University of the Year 2024 by The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide with Life Sciences ranking 20^th in the World.

QS World Rankings 2025

UCL are ninth in the world *2025 QS World University Rankings and second in the world for the strength of our international research network.

Shanghai Rankings of academic subjects 2023

The Global Ranking of Academic Subjects rank Biological Sciences eighth in the world, Human Biological Sciences second in the world and Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences second in the world.

Guardian

UCL is ranked in ninthin the Guardian League Tables 2024.

Anatomy and physiology, Biology and Biomedical Science rank 9th and Pharmacy and Pharmacology 12^th.

People and Planet

UCL is rated as 12^th in the list of 1st Class universities for environmental and ethical performance.

Edurank

UCL ranks third in the United Kingdom, 15th in the global 2024 rating with UCL Biology rank first in the UK and Europe.

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UCL is ranked 7th (Best Global University), 3rd (Best Global University in Europe) and 3rd (Best Global University in UK) in 2024. Many subjects are ranked within the top twenty in the world, including Pharmacology and Toxicology (2nd), Neuroscience and Behaviour (6th) and Cell Biology (11th).

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REF 2021

We’re proud to have maintained our position as top in the UK for research power in ‘medicine, health and life sciences’, demonstrating the impact our research has worldwide.

UCL has £2.27bn research grants under management.

UCL is a global research powerhouse UCL, coming second within the UK for research power in the Research Excellence Framework 2021 (REF), with 93% of our research being classed as ‘world leading’ and ‘internationally excellent’.

We are at the forefront of driving UK innovation

National leader in knowledge exchange
£2.9bn external investment in spinouts *HEBCI 2014-2022
Five UCL spinouts listed on the Nasdaq, collectively raising around $796m
In 2023 AI firm Synthesia, co-founded by a UCL scientist, became a $1bn unicorn
Over 400 new graduate businesses and 60 spinouts started at UCL, raising more than £3.2bn in investment *HEBCI 2014-2022

Our graduates achieve remarkable things

Ranked among the top 20 universities worldwide for graduate employability *2022 QS Graduate Employability Rankings
90 UCL alumni have been named in Forbes 30 Under 30
UCL undergraduates attract a starting salary that is 20.7% higher (£32k) than the UK average *Graduate Outcomes 2020-21
400,000 alumni in 190 countries