University of Central Lancashire

The University of Central Lancashire (UCLAN), founded in 1828, is a public university located in Preston, Lancashire, United Kingdom. Since 2018, UCLAN has been listed in the top 1000 universities in the world by QS (Top Universities). In a similar vein, THE (Times Higher Education) has ranked UCLAN in its top universities since 2019 at 801-1000. The ranking of UCLAN among the world's universities has dropped, from 984 for 2020 to 1175 for 2022, based on US News & World Report, another important magazine. This shows that UCLAN hasn't done well on important criteria like publications cited among the top publications and regional and global research reputation.

According to two renowned UK publishers, UCLAN is among the top 100 universities in the country. UCLAN has dropped from its ranking of 70th in 2021 to 89th in The Complete University Guide's 2022 university ranking, which is a significant improvement from 102nd for 2019. Since 2017, UCLAN has been listed by The Guardian as one of the top 100 institutions in the UK. According to The Guardian's rating of universities for 2022, UCLAN is ranked 97th overall.

The UCLAN for PG Business and Economics has decreased over time, going from 401-500 for 2019 to 501-600 for 2022. Since 2017, the Complete University Guide's accounting and finance and business and management studies rankings have placed UCLAN among the top 100 universities in the UK. UCLAN was ranked by The Guardian in the top 100 for both business, management, and marketing as well as accounting and finance. UCLAN improved significantly in The Guardian's Business, Management & Marketing ranking from 65th place for 2020 to 22nd place for 2021 before falling once more to 38th place in 2022. This shows that UCLAN has done well in regards to important factors including the student-staff ratio, admittance requirements, employment prospects, and value-added services.

Both UK publishers ranked UCLAN in the top 100 universities for various engineering courses. According to data on engineering rankings, UCLAN's civil engineering programme is extremely well-liked in the UK. The Complete University Guide has listed UCLAN among some of the list of 100 universities in the United Kingdom for computer science since 2017.