Over the past year, we have received recognition and awards which offer strong evidence that we're now one of the top creative universities in the UK:

• We are the highest placed creative university, the second highest modern university and are in the top 25 of all UK universities in The Guardian University Guide 2018.
• The Guardian also placed us in the top 10 for our Architecture, Fashion & Textiles and Film Production & Photography courses for 2018.
• We are ranked the top specialist university for the creative industries by the Complete University Guide 2018.
• The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2017 places us in the top 15 for teaching quality.
• We have been named as one of the top 30 best-performing universities across all three of the UK’s major league tables, after entering the 2018 Times Higher Education (THE) Table of Tables for the first time. We are also the only specialist creative arts university to be featured in the table.
• We were praised for our achievements at Graduate Fashion Week (GFW) 2017, with three student collections named among the ‘Best of GFW’, and Rochester graduate Yingi Goma winning the People’s Choice Award.
• Our Students’ Union, UCASU, was named the best specialist Students’ Union in the country at the 2016 National Union of Students (NUS) Awards.
• UCASU was also named HE Students’ Union of the Year at the NUS Disabled Students Awards 2017.
• The latest Research Exercise Framework (REF 2014) confirms our position as one of the top ten research communities in art and design, with 93% of our research designated as internationally recognised for quality, and 64% of our research submissions classed as world leading and internationally excellent in terms of originality, significance and thoroughness.