The University of Hertfordshire has risen in the latest national league table rankings.

The Hatfield-based university climbed 12 places in the Guardian University Guide 2025 to reach the 75th position.

In the Daily Mail University Guide 2025, it moved up eight places from 2024, securing the 54th spot overall.

Professor Quintin McKellar CBE, vice chancellor at the University of Hertfordshire, said: "As well as ensuring our students have an enriching university experience, our top priority will always be to deliver high quality, career-focused education and work experiences.

"This is to provide our graduates with the skills, training and confidence to go out into the world, secure good quality employment and have long, successful and fulfilling careers.

"While we would never rest on our laurels, it is extremely rewarding to see all our hard work paying off, and only motivates us to want to continue to push forwards to hopefully do even better next year."

The rankings take into account various factors, including teaching excellence, quality of feedback, student satisfaction, and the number of students in highly skilled employment 15 months after graduation.

In the Guardian tables, the university showed notable improvement in teaching satisfaction, climbing 35 places, and satisfaction with feedback and assessment, rising 12 places.

It ranked 16th in the country for "value-added".

At a subject level, the University of Hertfordshire's mental health nursing was ranked the second best in the UK, child nursing third, and both social work and nursing fourth.

The university also saw significant rises in several subjects, including business and management, event management, economics, education, English, pharmacy, geography, criminology, and health professions.

The University of Hertfordshire also performed well in the Mail University Guide's ranking areas, which assessed 129 universities in total.

This included teaching excellence at 84.5 per cent, a first-year completion rate of 90.7 per cent, and graduate outcomes, with 74.3 per cent of graduates in highly-skilled jobs.

It came 38th overall for graduate salary, with an average of £28,000.

Top subject rankings included being placed first out of 52 for teaching, second out of 26 for dietetics, and third out of 46 for counselling, psychotherapy and occupational therapy.