| 2009 Times ranking |
University |
Kings A Level students accepted |
Kings Foundation students accepted |
| 1 | Oxford | ✓ | |
| 2 | Cambridge | ✓ |
|
| 3 | Imperial College | ✓ |
|
| 4 | London School of Economics | ✓ |
|
| 5 | St Andrews | | ✓ |
| 6 | Warwick | ✓ |
✓ |
| 7 | University College London | ✓ |
|
| 8 | Durham | ✓ |
✓ |
| 9 | York | ✓ |
✓ |
| 10 | Bristol | ✓ |
✓ |
| 11 | King's College London | ✓ |
✓ |
| 12 | Loughborough | ✓ |
✓ |
| 13 | Exeter | ✓ |
✓ |
| 14 | Leicester | ✓ |
✓ |
| 15 | Bath | ✓ |
✓ |
| 16= | Nottingham | ✓ |
✓ |
| 16= | Southampton | ✓ |
✓ |
| 18 | Edinburgh | ✓ |
✓ |
| 19 | Lancaster | | ✓ |
| 20= | Newcastle | | ✓ |
| 20= | Glasgow | | ✓ |
| 22 | Sheffield | ✓ | ✓ |
| 23 | East Anglia | | ✓ |
| 24 | School of Oriental and African Studies | | ✓ |
| 25 | Birmingham | ✓ |
✓ |
| 26 | Aberdeen | | ✓ |
| 27 | Manchester | | ✓ |
| 28 | Aston | | ✓ |
| 29 | Cardiff | | ✓ |
| 30 | Royal Holloway | ✓ | ✓ |
| 31= | Leeds | | ✓ |
| 31= | Reading | | ✓ |
| 31= | Queen’s Belfast. | | |
| 34 | Liverpool John Moores | | ✓ |
| 35 | Strathclyde | | ✓ |
| 36 | Kent | | ✓ |
| 37 | Queen Mary,London | | ✓ |
| 38 | Sussex | ✓ |
✓ |
| 39 | Surrey | |
✓ |
| 40 | Stirling | | ✓ |
| 41 | Keele | | ✓ |
| 42 | Essex | | ✓ |
| 43 | Aberystwyth | | ✓ |
| 44 | Dundee | | ✓ |
| 45 | Hull | | ✓ |
| 46 | Goldsmiths,London | | ✓ |
| 47 | Heriot-Watt | | ✓ |
| 48 | Swansea | | ✓ |
| 49 | Bradford | | ✓ |
| 50 | City | | ✓ |
| 51 | Bangor | | ✓ |
| 52 | Brunel | | ✓ |
| 53 | Ulster | | |
| 54 | Robert Gordon | | |
| 55 | Oxford Brookes | | ✓ |
| 56 | Nottingham Trent | | ✓ |
| 57 | Bournemouth | | ✓ |
| 58 | Gloucestershire | | ✓ |
| 59 | Chichester | | ✓ |
| 60 | Brighton | | ✓ |
| 61 | Portsmouth | | ✓ |
| 62 | Plymouth | | ✓ |
| 63 | Central Lancashire | | ✓ |
| 64 | Napier | | |
| 65 | West of England | | ✓ |
| 66 | Winchester | | ✓ |
| 67 | Staffordshire | | ✓ |
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| 2009 Times ranking |
University |
Kings A Level students accepted |
Kings Foundation students accepted |
| 68= | Glasgow Caledonian | | |
| 68= | Queen Margaret Edinburgh | | |
| 70 | Lampeter | | |
| 71 | Birmingham City | | ✓ |
| 72 | Bath Spa | | |
| 73 | Northumbria | | ✓ |
| 74 | Coventry | | ✓ |
| 75 | University of the Arts, London | | ✓ |
| 76 | Sheffield Hallam | | ✓ |
| 77= | Glamorgan | | ✓ |
| 77= | De Montfort | | ✓ |
| 79 | Hertfordshire | | ✓ |
| 80 | Canterbury Christ Church | | ✓ |
| 81 | Worcester | | ✓ |
| 82 | Sunderland | | |
| 83 | Salford | | ✓ |
| 84 | Northampton | | ✓ |
| 85 | UWIC, Cardiff | | ✓ |
| 86= | Roehampton | | ✓ |
| 86= | Chester | | ✓ |
| 88 | Teesside | | |
| 89 | Bedfordshire | | ✓ |
| 90 | Huddersfield | | |
| 91 | York St John | | |
| 92 | Manchester Metropolitan | | ✓ |
| 93 | Kingston | | |
| 94 | Liverpool John Moores | | ✓ |
| 95 | Derby | | ✓ |
| 96 | Newport | | |
| 97 | Southampton Solent | | ✓ |
| 98 | Edge Hill | | |
| 99 | Cumbria | | |
| 100 | Abertay | | |
| 101= | Leeds Metropolitan | | ✓ |
| 101= | Westminster | | ✓ |
| 103= | West of Scotland | | |
| 103= | Lincoln | | ✓ |
| 105 | Middlesex | | ✓ |
| 106 | Anglia Ruskin | | ✓ |
| 107 | Wolverhampton | | |
| 108 | Buckinghamshire New | | |
| 109 | East London | | ✓ |
| 110 | Greenwich | | ✓ |
| 111 | Bolton | | ✓ |
| 112 | Thames Valley | | ✓ |
| 113 | London South Bank | | ✓ |
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