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Awards and recognition

We're the Times Higher Education University of the Year 2023.

This follows our award for University of the Year at the Social Mobility Awards in October 2023. We're also proud to have received a Gold award for the quality of our education in the Teaching Excellence Framework, a UK-wide review of university teaching standards.

University of the Year

We're proud to be the Times Higher Education University of the Year 2023. The award recognises our success in delivering high-impact initiatives across our campuses.

THE University of the Year award

Teaching Excellence Framework Gold award

Our course content and delivery, learning resources, and approaches to supporting student success are all rated as 'outstanding'.

The Queen's Anniversary Prize

Our world-leading music therapy work, in particular our focus on the wellbeing of people living with dementia, earned The Queen’s Anniversary Prize in 2021. The prize recognises outstanding research work that delivers significant public benefit.

The Queen's Anniversary Prize

Recent successes

Some of our other recent successes include:

receiving University of the Year title at the prestigious UK Social Mobility Awards, in recognition of the role ARU Peterborough is playing in advancing social mobility across the city and the wider region
in 2022, we were named as one of the top 350 universities in the world for the seventh successive year – and one of the top 40 in the UK
we're ranked in the top 10% in the country for graduate employment
we received The Queen’s Anniversary Prize for our world-leading music therapy work in November 2021
16 subject areas were judged to contain 'world leading' research in the Research Excellence Framework 2021
we're ranked among the world's best for health and wellbeing and reduced inequalities, in line with the UN Sustainable Development Goals
winning a Green Gown Award - the Next Generation Learning and Skills prize - for our Ruskin Modules in 2023.

Student successes

ARU students Martha Wallam, Kai Wissler and Chloe Kelly receiving a Royal Television Society East Award

Scooping the top prizes

Our students continue to have success in their fields. These are just some of the many prizes they've won this year...

V&A Student Illustrator of the Year - 6 years in a row! Prestigious awards for film students Lucy - our High Performance Sport student and Britain’s number one judoka

Solomon holding his Student Social Worker of the Year award

Improving the future

We're proud of our students and the positive impact they make.

Student Social Worker of the Year Gold prize for Solomon's emergency response Blazing your own trail Students help shape Net Zero roadmap