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RAE 2008
The Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) is a national exercise which assesses the quality of research of all higher education institutions, by the UK’s higher education funding bodies.
The RAE 2008 found that 85% of the University's research is now classified as world leading and of international importance.
Keele has top rated departments in all of its three Faculties: Health, Humanities and Social Sciences and Natural Sciences, and the RAE results reveal the University's world class research activities across a wide spectrum of subject areas.
The results represent a step-up in Keele's performance from the very good results the University achieved in the last RAE in 2001. Then, 6% of submitted research achieved the top grade. Now, some 11% is judged to be 4* or 'world leading', the highest available category score.
Subject areas where research at Keele has been rated world class in terms of originality, significance and rigour are Primary Care, Physics, Applied Mathematics, Business and Management, Law, Politics, Russian, English Language and Literature, Social Policy and Administration, History, Music and General Engineering (which includes BioMedical Engineering and Environmental Engineering). Keele has performed particularly well in Music, Applied Mathematics, Social Policy and Administration and History.
The full results for all universities are available on the RAE website www.rae.ac.uk.
