RAE 2008 confirms the School of Computing is in the top 10 of UK computing departments
We are the leading Computing department in the north-east of England. 80% of the School's work is confirmed as being internationally excellent and world leading by the RAE definitions.
The RAE is conducted jointly by the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE), the Scottish Funding Council (SFC), the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales (HEFCW) and the Department for Employment and Learning, Northern Ireland (DEL) and is a mechanism for evaluating quality of research in UK Higher Education.