edinburgh comes top for computer science and informatics in rae 2008

These RAE 2008 results confirm that the University of Edinburgh is, once again, the strongest in the UK for research in Informatics and Computer Science.

Our Profile

FTE Category A staff submitted	4*	3*	2*	1*	Unclassified
104.25	35	50	15	0	0

Please visit the RAE web site for an explanation of the scores.

Informatics at Edinburgh delivers more world-leading (4*) research than anyone else — 69% more than our nearest competitor.

We contribute 10% of the UK's world-leading research in the Computer Science and Informatics unit of assessment.

We deliver more internationally-excellent (3*) or world-leading (4*) research than anyone else — 44% more than our nearest competitor.  All of our research is internationally recognised, or better (2*, 3* or 4*) — and we submitted every eligible member of staff.

Overall, ours is the largest research grouping in the UK — again, 44% larger than our nearest competitor.

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Research Assessment Exercise 2008
The Guardian sortable table of results