The Times Good University Guide 2026

Essential guide to British universities that gives you all the information you need to make the crucial decisions on what to study, where to study, and how much it might cost. Objective and authoritative, it is the best-selling guide to making the right university choice for you.

For more than 30 years The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide has provided the most accurate and up-to-date information about British universities to help choosing which universities to apply to as easy as possible. This definitive guide is designed for those who are applying to start courses in 2026.

• Select the right course and university
• Compare university performance
• Get to grips with the application process
• Find the latest rankings by subject
• Plus, the lowdown on university life

Written by Zoe Thomas, journalist and education writer, this is the most authoritative guide available. Its university and subject tables inside are the most respected and studied in Britain.

Journalist and education writer. She has worked on The Sunday Times Good University Guide since 2005 and is a former staff journalist for the newspaper. For the past 12 years, she has written extensively for the Good University Guide, both its UK and Irish editions, and its sister publication The Sunday Times Schools Guide, Parent Power, the annual review of Britain's leading primary and secondary schools. She has a degree in media studies from the University of Sussex.