Facts and figures
The University of Plymouth in numbers

Top 5 UK Young University in the 2022 Times Higher Education Young University Rankings
 Top 25 for teaching quality in the 2020 National Student Survey
 The first university to be awarded the Social Enterprise Mark
 Over 4,500 University of Plymouth students per year benefit from placements and work-based learning
?28 National Teaching Fellowships in HE since 2000
Ranked 4th globally for the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goal number 14: life below water (Times Higher Education Impact Rankings 2022)
Top UK university for Marine and Ocean Engineering  (Shanghai Ranking Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2019)
More than three quarters of our research ranked either World-Leading or Internationally Excellent in  2021 Research Excellence Framework (REF)
A three-time winner of the Queen's Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education, most recently in 2019 for  marine microplastics pollution research
AEuropean Commission HR Excellence in Research Award
Ranked 15th in the world for our efforts in support of the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goal number 13: climate action (Times Higher Education Impact Rankings 2022)
Top 40 of 553 institutions, we are recognised for our efforts to reduce food waste while raising awareness of the food challenges facing local and global communities (Times Higher Education Impact Rankings 2022)
 Six Green Gown Awards since 2011, including three in 2014
'One of just six institutions internationally to receive a Global Showcase award from the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS)
 Drake’s Place £1.4 million restoration project of the gardens and reservoir completed in 2014 with accredited Green Flag status since 2015
'The House and Marine Station building projects are BREEAM Excellent (an environmental assessment method rating system for buildings)
 59% of waste recycled in 2020–21
(We have over 290 bicycle parking spaces on campus
@Our Students' Union has NUS Green Impact ‘Excellence Outstanding’ status
'Achieved ISO 14001 accreditation for all our operations on the Plymouth campus since 2009
254% reduction in CO2e emissions since 1990
'We are a zero landfill University
Top ten greenest universities in the country (People and Planet University League 2021)
Our campus cafes received a Three Star rating (the highest possible) from the Sustainable Restaurant Association in the Food Made Good report 2022
AOver 18,500 students
AOver 2,500 staff
*£239.4m annual turnover
 £24m contracting with local businesses
,Founded in 1862 as the School of Navigation
<150 partnerships with institutions from 26 countries for collaborations in teaching and research
 7,500 studying for a Plymouth degree at partner institutions in the UK and around the world
 £155m invested in the campus over the past decade, including the Marine Station, The House and The Wellbeing Centre
(We are the key partner in the South West Peninsula City Deal – potential to create 10,000 jobs
 We oversee a £100m network of business support facilities, including incubation, innovation and science park infrastructure
 An alumni community with over 182,000 graduates pursuing their careers globally
@58% of academic staff are PhD qualified
 The first and only post-1992 university to launch its own medical and dental school
Students’ Union voted the Best Student Venue in the Plymouth Best Bar None Awards 2019
In the top 20 of the most friendly vegan universities in the UK (source: PETA UK)
_The Peninsula Dental School was the first in the UK to achieve RCS Surgical Education Centre accreditation
Higher Education Academy strategic partner 2016-17
Athena Swan Bronze Award
A member of the campaign to promote women in science, technology and engineering.
Stonewall Diversity Champion
Sustainable Restaurant Association award SRA 2022
Guardian university award for teaching excellence 2013
Green Gown awards
Global Entrepreneurship Week
Signatory of The Magna Charta Universitatum