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| | The Sunday Times League success, 17 September 2000: News: Marketing Office: University of Leicester |
 | | The Sunday Times University Guide, published on September 17, placed the University in the top quartile in the UK – at 24, the highest ever rating in media league tables. |
 | | The University was given 125 out of 250 (50%) for teaching quality, 120 out of 200 (59.83%) for research quality, 183 out of 250 for A-level points, 94% for employment, 52% for the firsts/2:1s awarded; 10.75:1 for student/staff ratio and 7% for the drop out rate. |
 | | In The Times Good University Guide published in April, the University was ranked 34 out on 97; The FT’s guide to the UK’s top universities placed Leicester 26th out of 97; the Daily Telegraph league table, published in August, placed the University 32 out of 99 institutions. |
| www.le.ac.uk /marketing/news/tables/17sep2000_st.html (465 words) |
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