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.
Further statisticsrelated Links
University of Edinburgh reaffirmed as global research leaderResearch Assessment Exercise 2008The Guardian sortable table of results
