Top 10 unis for Facilities Spend 2025
Are you interested in who tops the table for facilities spend? Check out the Top 10 Unis in the UK for facilities spend in 2025.
What does Facilities Spend mean?
Facilities spend refers to the expenditure per student on staff and student facilities and is calculated using data from the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA).
How is it calculated?
A university's expenditure on student facilities like sports, careers services, health etc., is divided by the number of full-time equivalent students in the latest year. Expenditure over three years is averaged to allow for uneven costs.
This measure tends to disadvantage some collegiate universities as it mostly includes central university expenditure. For example, at Cambridge or Oxford, a significant amount of facilities expenditure is by the colleges, but this does not appear in the university’s accounts.
Who comes out on top for Facilities Spend in the UK for 2025?
Harper Adams stays number one in this top ten for 2025. The top five stays the same as last year for this measure.
University of East Anglia UEA and Liverpool Hope University have swapped places with University of East Anglia UEA taking the sixth spot.
There has been a huge jump up the table for Buckinghamshire New University, shooting up seventeen places into the top ten to take tenth place for 2025.
- 1. Harper Adams University
- 2. University of Birmingham
- 3. University of Essex
- 4. Loughborough University
- 5. Heriot-Watt University
- 6. University of East Anglia UEA
- 7. Liverpool Hope University
- 8. University of Cambridge
- 9. University of Exeter
- 10. Buckinghamshire New University
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