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#1 Edge Hill University95.37% student score
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#1 Birmingham Newman University96.54% student score
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#1 The University of Sheffield90.57% student score
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#1 University of St Andrews92.15% student score
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#1 Harper Adams University86.27% student score
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#1 The University of Reading84.30% student score
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#1 Swansea University86.97% student score
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#1 University of Derby92.46% student score
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#1 University of Lincoln91.84% student score
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#1 University of St Andrews90.98% student score
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#1 Teesside University95.31% student score
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#1 Canterbury Christ Church University95.70% student score
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#1 The University of Leeds95.90% student score
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#1 Teesside University92.80% student score
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#1 University of East London95.24% student score
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#1 The London School of Economics and Political Science89.67% student score
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#1 University of Lancashire93.73% student score
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#1 University of Derby93.26% student score
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#1 Liverpool John Moores University92.66% student score
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#1 Southampton Solent University95.08% student score
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#1 University of the West of Scotland93.66% student score
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#1 The University of Leeds87.55% student score
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#1 University of Bedfordshire94.62% student score
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#1 University of East London97.82% student score
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#1 University of East London96.99% student score
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#1 University of Bristol97.88% student score
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#1 University of Glasgow88.70% student score
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#1 Brunel University London94.76% student score
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#1 University of Keele94.29% student score
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#1 The University of Chichester96.82% student score
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#1 Oxford Brookes University96.19% student score
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#1 University of Bedfordshire94.57% student score
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#1 University of Greenwich92.63% student score
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#1 The University of Leicester94.66% student score
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#1 University of Hertfordshire92.61% student score
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#1 Glasgow Caledonian University95.91% student score
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#1 Teesside University91.45% student score
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#1 University of East London94.29% student score
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#1 Buckinghamshire New University99.36% student score
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#1 Leeds Arts University93.00% student score
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#1 The University of Hull96.73% student score
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#1 The University of Leeds89.12% student score
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#1 University of Lincoln96.77% student score
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#1 University of Northampton, the97.60% student score
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#1 Bangor University94.98% student score
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#1 Bangor University96.63% student score
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#1 The University of Reading95.05% student score
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#1 University of East London88.96% student score
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#1 University of Lancashire98.11% student score
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#1 Cardiff University90.41% student score
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#1 Anglia Ruskin University95.27% student score
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#1 University of Hertfordshire97.41% student score
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#1 The University of Reading97.54% student score
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#1 Bangor University96.37% student score
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#1 The University of Sheffield91.85% student score
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#1 University of Hertfordshire94.79% student score
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#1 University of Northampton, the98.18% student score
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#1 Liverpool John Moores University95.44% student score
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#1 The University of Reading92.82% student score
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#1 University of Plymouth92.66% student score
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#1 Queen's University of Belfast88.10% student score
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#1 University of Ulster96.15% student score
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#1 University of Nottingham, the94.87% student score
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#1 Robert Gordon University96.12% student score
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#1 Bangor University90.07% student score
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#1 University of Aberdeen93.02% student score
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#1 University of the Highlands and Islands86.67% student score
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#1 Prifysgol Aberystwyth89.83% student score
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#1 University of Hertfordshire95.20% student score
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#1 University of St Andrews88.57% student score
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#1 North West Regional College76.49% student score
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#1 London South Bank University95.53% student score
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#1 University of Winchester99.45% student score
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#1 University of Southampton93.66% student score
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#1 University of Stirling97.68% student score
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#1 University of Derby98.51% student score
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#1 University of Aberdeen99.13% student score
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#1 University of the West of England, Bristol94.66% student score
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#1 University of Hertfordshire96.15% student score
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#1 University of Durham85.46% student score
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#1 University of Strathclyde91.77% student score
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#1 University College London87.28% student score
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#1 Cardiff Metropolitan University90.26% student score
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#1 Birmingham City University94.38% student score
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#1 Cardiff University90.23% student score
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#1 The University of Leeds96.51% student score
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#1 The University of Sheffield90.76% student score
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#1 University of Sunderland93.72% student score
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#1 Queen's University of Belfast98.81% student score
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#1 The University of Warwick92.60% student score
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#1 Swansea University91.58% student score
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#1 Birmingham Newman University96.69% student score
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#1 Buckinghamshire New University94.70% student score
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#1 University of Plymouth84.27% student score
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#1 University of South Wales/Prifysgol De Cymru94.47% student score
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#1 The University of Birmingham94.52% student score
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#1 The University of Birmingham90.31% student score
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#1 University of Lancashire93.87% student score
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#1 Teesside University92.79% student score
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#1 University of Staffordshire94.08% student score
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#1 University of South Wales/Prifysgol De Cymru90.57% student score
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#1 The University of Leicester95.65% student score
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#1 Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine92.68% student score
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#1 Glasgow Caledonian University95.19% student score
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#1 Birmingham Newman University99.38% student score
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#1 The University of East Anglia93.72% student score
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#1 University of Winchester98.05% student score
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#1 University of Derby84.58% student score
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#1 University of Lincoln91.82% student score
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#1 Manchester Metropolitan University90.78% student score
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#1 University of Exeter94.21% student score
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#1 University of Strathclyde87.49% student score
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#1 The University of Chichester96.94% student score
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#1 University of Salford, the94.26% student score
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#1 The University of Warwick89.95% student score
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#1 University of Hertfordshire88.97% student score
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#1 Nottingham Trent University95.06% student score
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#1 England88.74% student score
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#1 Queen's University of Belfast87.70% student score
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#1 University of East London95.13% student score
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#1 Buckinghamshire New University94.83% student score
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#1 University of Lancashire79.49% student score
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#1 England84.74% student score
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#1 The University of Leeds83.83% student score
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#1 The University of Kent90.90% student score
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#1 University of Brighton98.75% student score
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#1 Nottingham Trent University88.80% student score
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#1 Glasgow Caledonian University93.93% student score
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#1 Nottingham Trent University90.72% student score
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#1 Southampton Solent University95.90% student score
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#1 University of Southampton92.85% student score
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#1 Cardiff University93.77% student score
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#1 Queen's University of Belfast93.55% student score
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#1 Birmingham Newman University96.43% student score
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#1 University of the West of England, Bristol94.83% student score
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#1 The Open University88.12% student score
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#1 Nottingham Trent University92.39% student score
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#1 Leeds Beckett University95.50% student score
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#1 University of the West of England, Bristol92.02% student score
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#1 University of Edinburgh76.02% student score
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#1 Liverpool Hope University91.73% student score
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#1 Birmingham City University91.03% student score
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#1 University of Nottingham, the91.62% student score
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#1 University of Wales: Trinity Saint David93.46% student score
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#1 University of Worcester91.19% student score
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#1 Leeds Beckett University91.93% student score
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#1 Birmingham City University90.37% student score
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#1 The University of Reading88.30% student score
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#1 The University of Warwick91.56% student score
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#1 The University of Manchester94.13% student score
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#1 Leeds Beckett University95.45% student score
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#1 University of Stirling97.65% student score
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#1 Teesside University95.98% student score
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#1 University of Suffolk91.41% student score
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#1 University of East London96.17% student score
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#1 University of Greater Manchester97.43% student score
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#1 University of Strathclyde92.24% student score
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#1 Teesside University95.85% student score
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#1 Roehampton University94.23% student score
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#1 University of Wolverhampton95.60% student score
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#1 Kingston University78.54% student score
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#1 The University of Liverpool90.77% student score
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#1 Cardiff University97.36% student score
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#1 University of the West of Scotland95.56% student score
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