The department is proud to be rated second in Computer Science in the 2014 round of the Research Excellence Framework. 56% of the department's research activity was rated 4* (world leading - the highest rating) and the Grade Point Average (GPA) for the department was 3.53 out of 4. 86.7% of our research has been deemed ‘outstanding’ for its impact.

	4*	3*	2*	1*	U/C
Overall	56%	41%	3%	0%	0%
Outputs	51.5%	43.4%	5.1%	0.0%	0.0%
Impact	86.7%	13.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
Environment	35.0%	65.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%

The REF is the system for assessing the quality of research in UK higher education insitutions. 154 UK universitues and 52,061 were included in the exercise in 2014.

Further Information

• Times Higher Education: REF2014 results
• Research Excellence at Warwick
• Research Excellence Framework (REF)