Music at Royal Holloway has been ranked 3rd in the UK in the latest Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide, out of 73 Music departments.
There is plenty to celebrate as a new academic year gets underway, with Music at Royal Holloway ranked 3rd in the UK in the latest Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2027.
The ranking places Music at Royal Holloway among the leading university Music programmes in the UK, with particularly strong results across research, teaching, student experience, and graduate prospects.
Music at Royal Holloway is ranked:
- 3rd in the UK to study music
- 1st for research quality
- 12th for student experience
- 14th for teaching quality
- 7th for graduate prospects
- 15th for entry points
The 1st place ranking for research quality is a particular highlight, reflecting the breadth and ambition of research taking place across Music at Royal Holloway.
The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide brings together measures including teaching quality, student experience, research quality, entry standards, and graduate prospects. While league tables offer only one perspective on university life, this result is an opportunity to celebrate the students and staff whose work makes Music at Royal Holloway such a vibrant musical community.
Our world-leading culture and facilities
The result reflects the breadth of activity across Music at Royal Holloway, where research, teaching, performance, and creative practice are closely connected. Students learn alongside active composers, performers, researchers, and practitioners, while having opportunities to perform, collaborate, attend concerts and masterclasses, and develop their own creative work.
The recognition comes as Music at Royal Holloway begins a new academic year, with a full programme of performances, research projects, teaching, and creative activity ahead.
Music students at Royal Holloway benefit from outstanding facilities including professional-level recording studios, four production suites, a world music studio, and unique Victorian performing venues such as our chapel and Picture Gallery. As an all-Steinway school, we offer our students exclusive use of Steinway or Steinway-designed pianos for teaching, practice and performance.
