Top Universities in Scotland

2022 Scotland University Ranking

Introduction

What are Scotland’s most famous universities? Topuniversitieslist attempts to address this issue by releasing the Scotland University Ranking for 2022, 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.

2022 Scotland University Ranking

#	University	Town	World Rank	Country Rank
1	The University of Edinburgh	Scotland	52	4
2	University of Glasgow	Scotland	105	8
3	University of St Andrews	Scotland	206	20
4	University of Aberdeen	Scotland	355	33
5	Heriot-Watt University	Scotland	401	35
6	University of Strathclyde	Scotland	423	38
7	University of Dundee	Scotland	491	41
8	University of Stirling	Scotland	637	55
9	Edinburgh Napier University	Scotland	885	81
10	University of the Highlands and Islands	Scotland	1311	96
11	Robert Gordon University	Scotland	1354	98
12	Glasgow Caledonian University	Scotland	1595	104
13	The Glasgow School of Art	Scotland	1802	109
14	Abertay University	Scotland	1996	114
15	University of the West of Scotland	Scotland	2005	115
16	Scotland’s Rural College	Scotland	2174	121
17	Queen Margaret University	Scotland	2713	133
18	Royal Conservatoire of Scotland	Scotland	3763	147