The University of Manchester has risen five places in the latest QS World University Rankings - to a position of 29^th.

The University has equalled its highest ever position of 29^th, which was achieved in 2016, and is ranked 6^th in the UK – exceeding the 2016 place of 7^th. Last year Manchester was ranked 34^th in the world.

The World University Rankings have been published every year since 2004 by analysts QS Quacquarelli Symonds and now rank the world’s top 1,000 universities, which hail from 85 different countries.

The ranking is compiled using a number of factors. There include academic reputation, with 70,000 people working in higher education surveyed on subjects such as research and teaching quality. The other factors are employer reputation (based on a survey of 30,000 employers), faculty/student ratio, citations per faculty and international faculty ratio/international student ratio.

The University also appeared in the recent Guardian and Times Higher Education league tables.

The QS tables can be viewed at www.topuniversities.com which also contains the full profile for The University of Manchester.