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We're the Times Higher Education University of the Year 2023.

This follows our award for University of the Year at the Social Mobility Awards in October 2023. We're also proud to have received a Gold award for the quality of our education in the Teaching Excellence Framework, a UK-wide review of university teaching standards.

We're proud to be the Times Higher Education University of the Year 2023, and to have received a Gold award for the quality of our education.

Some of our other recent successes include:

receiving University of the Year title at the prestigious UK Social Mobility Awards, in recognition of the role ARU Peterborough is playing in advancing social mobility across the city and the wider region
we're ranked in the top 10% in the country for graduate employment
becoming the first institution in the UK to receive the prestigious Entrepreneurial University Award
we received The Queen’s Anniversary Prize for our world-leading music therapy work in November 2021
16 subject areas were judged to contain 'world leading' research in the Research Excellence Framework 2021
we're ranked among the world's best for health and wellbeing and reduced inequalities, in line with the UN Sustainable Development Goals
winning a Green Gown Award - the Next Generation Learning and Skills prize - for our Ruskin Modules in 2023.

Our students continue to have success in their fields. These are just some of the many prizes they've won this year...

We're proud of our students and the positive impact they make.