In the UK King's College is consistently ranked among top 25 British
universities, although some league tables, such as Guardian and the Sunday
Times put it among top 10 from time to time.[15] Internationally, the
college is constantly featured among top 100 world universities by all major
global university rankings compliers having been placed between 21st by the
QS World University Rankings[36] and 77th worldwide by the Times Higher
Education World University Rankings.[37]
According to the 2009 Times Good University Guide, several subjects taught
at King’s, including Law, History, Politics, Classics, Spanish, Portuguese,
Music, Dentistry, Medicine, Nursing and Food Science are among the top five
in the country.[38]
According to the 2010 Complete University guide, many subjects at King's,
including Classics, English, French, Geography, German, History, Music,
Philosophy and Theology, rank within the Top 10 nationally. The Dental
Institute has been known as the "Oxbridge Dentistry" as the University of
Cambridge and the University of Oxford do not offer Dentistry as a course of
study.[citation needed] The College has had 24 of its subject-areas awarded
the highest rating of 5 or 5* for research quality,[27] and in 2007 it
received a good result in its audit by the Quality Assurance Agency.[27] It
is in the top tier for research earnings. In September 2010, the Sunday
Times selected King's as the "University of the Year 2010/11" taking the
position from last year's winner Oxford University.[