Ole J Kemi, Victoria Penpraze, Nairn Scobie, Niall G MacFarlane
UK university undergraduate programs are compared by independent subject-specific rankings (Complete, Guardian, Times), based upon data from National Student Survey, Higher Education Statistics Agency, Universities and Colleges Admissions Service, Research Excellence Framework, and the universities. The sports and exercise science program at University of Glasgow, has steadily risen to currently rank as the top UK program. This investigation aimed to identify the underlying factors that explain this. Therefore, we obtained underlying scores for entry standard, student satisfaction, research foundation, graduate prospects, staff-student ratio, expenditure/student, continuation, program support to students, and teaching quality from the ranking providers for years 2010-2024, and statistically modelled which factors significantly affected the rankings...
February 29, 2024: Advances in Physiology Education