Awards and accreditation

Awards

We have been ranked as the 35th most sustainable university in the world and 9th in the UK according to UI GreenMetric.
The University has won Times Higher Awards in 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2017 and 2018.
Leicester has been awarded the Queen’s Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education on three occasions - the highest form of national recognition open to a UK academic or vocational institution.
In August 2015, HSBC announced for the second year running that the University of Leicester is the most affordable destination in Britain for both first and second-year students, according to their research.
In 2013 our Students' Union was named HE Students' Union of the Year in the NUS Awards.