Our awards
An award winning University
Our mission is to be an inspiring and innovative University of international renown. Through awards, we are gaining recognition for our outstanding work towards achieving this vision.
Read more about the awards we are proud to have won:
Teaching excellence
A gold-rated University
We are proud to have been recognised as a gold-rated University by the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF).
No 1 in England for teaching
In December 2016 the University was ranked as the first in England for professionally qualified teaching staff.
Global Teaching Excellence Award
Leading educationalists from around the world have selected the University of Huddersfield as the first winner of the Global Teaching Excellence Award.
University of the Year
In November 2013, the University was awarded the Times Higher Education University of the Year. The award was in recognition of a University 'that has demonstrated exceptional performance in the past academic year’.
In 2015, the University was named the New University of the Year at the Educate North Awards. A panel of more than 20 leading figures from the fields of education, business and politics selected the winners, who were announced at a ceremony in Manchester.
In April 2017 Huddersfield joined the Times Higher's world top 200 “young universities”.
Enterprise
We excel inenterprise and innovation and in 2012, the University was named the Times Higher Entrepreneurial University of the Year.
Leadership
The University relies on strong leadership. Headed by Vice-Chancellor, Professor Bob Cryan CBE who has won a number of awards for leadership.
Internationality
In 2013, we were awarded the Queen’s Award for Enterprise for International Trade and in 2014 we were ...
Workplace
In 2014, we were awarded the Times Higher Education Best University Workplace and topped the tables in all four main categories...
Official honours
In 2015, the University’s role in expanding the global boundaries of new music, earned a Queen’s Anniversary Prize, one of the most coveted distinctions in UK Higher Education. The prize recognised the contribution the University has made to the intellectual, economic and cultural life of the nation and to society and individuals in Britain and overseas.