Times Higher Education has named Northumbria University as the UK’s best young university of 2020 in Young University Rankings.

The Young University Rankings focuses on global universities that were established within the last 50 years. And ranks universities after analysing their academic reputation, employer reputation, faculty/student ratio, citations per faculty member, international faculty ratio and international student ratio.

Over the last few years, the University has steadily improved in areas such as international outlook and research citations and is now ranked 80th in the top-ranked university in the UK.