Top Universities in Scotland

2021 Scotland University Ranking

Introduction

What are Scotland’s most famous universities? Topuniversitieslist attempts to address this issue by releasing the Scotland University Ranking for 2021, which includes 18 recognised Scotland higher-education institutions that fulfill the Topuniversitieslist selection criteria:

being chartered, authorised, or certified by the relevant UK higher education-related body, and providing at least four-year undergraduate degrees (bachelor degrees) or postgraduate degrees (master or doctoral degrees) in a conventional, face-to-face, non-distance education style.

Our goal is to create a non-academic League Table of Scotland’s best universities focused on accurate, impartial, and non-influenceable site measurements generated by objective web intelligence outlets rather than data submitted by the universities.

2021 Scotland University Ranking

#	University	Town	World Rank	Country Rank
1	Robert Gordon University	Scotland	1187	95
2	University of Dundee	Scotland	451	40
3	University of Stirling	Scotland	630	53
4	Edinburgh Napier University	Scotland	870	82
5	Glasgow Caledonian University	Scotland	1230	97
6	Abertay University	Scotland	1626	107
7	The Glasgow School of Art	Scotland	1625	106
8	University of Strathclyde	Scotland	407	35
9	University of the Highlands and Islands	Scotland	848	81
10	University of the West of Scotland	Scotland	2075	116
11	Scotland’s Rural College	Scotland	2256	129
12	Queen Margaret University	Scotland	2567	132
13	Royal Conservatoire of Scotland	Scotland	3113	143
14	University of Glasgow	Scotland	112	8
15	The University of Edinburgh	Scotland	52	4
16	Heriot-Watt University	Scotland	224	20
17	University of St Andrews	Scotland	211	18
18	University of Aberdeen	Scotland	291	26