GDAdata (version 0.93)

uniranks: The Guardian University League Table 2013

Description

The Guardian newspaper in the UK publishes a ranking of British universities each year and it reported these data in May, 2012 as a guide for 2013.

Usage

data(uniranks)

Format

A data frame with 120 observations on the following 13 variables.

Rank

Rank of the University

Institution

University name

UniGroup

Universities can be a member of one of five groups, 1994 Group, Guild HE, Million+, Russell, University Alliance, or none

HesaCode

University's Higher Education Statistics Agency code

AvTeachScore

Average Teaching Score

NSSTeaching

University's National Student Survey teaching score

NSSOverall

University's NSS overall score

SpendPerStudent

University expenditure per student (depends on subject)

StudentStaffRatio

Student to Staff ratio

CareerProspects

Proportion of graduates in appropriate level employment or full-time study within six months of graduation

ValueAddScore

''Based upon a sophisticated indexing methodology that tracks students from enrolment to graduation, qualifications upon entry are compared with the award that a student receives at the end of their studies.'' (Guardian)

EntryTariff

Value dependent on the average points needed to get on the university's courses

NSSFeedback

University's NSS feedback score

Source

http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2012/may/22/university-guide-2013-guardian-data

Examples

data(uniranks, package="GDAdata")
with(uniranks, table(UniGroup))
library(ggplot2)
ggplot(uniranks, aes(x=NSSTeaching, y=NSSFeedback)) + geom_point()
ggplot(uniranks, aes(x=UniGroup, y=SpendPerStudent)) + geom_boxplot()