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In newspaper league tables, York ranks within the top ten universities in the UK, coming second in The Daily Telegraph university league table in 2001, and, in 2003, The Sunday Times named it "University of the Year". In 2006 the Sunday Times ranked York 7th in its overall university league tables. It is also frequently at the top of subject specific league tables. In official government assessments York has regularly been ranked either first or second in the country for the quality of its teaching. More state-school pupils come to York than any other leading university, according to a recent study.

York has an impressive reputation for research with 18 subjects out of 23 receiving a rating of 5 and three 5* ratings in the last Research Assessment Exercise. York is a founder member of the World Universities Network (WUN) which supports world-wide collaboration in teaching and research. In 2005 the University was awarded the Queen's Anniversary Prize for CNAP, the Centre for Novel Agricultural Products which explores the potential from the biosphere to reduce the global economy's dependence on fossil reserves and fuel[2].

There are around eight applications for every place and a very low dropout rate of 4% (only Oxbridge, Bristol, and UCL are lower).