Loughborough University campus is the UK’s largest single site green campus and is generally regarded as the best in the country for sport, having been named the Sports University of the Year multiple times by the Times Good University Guide. Other recent accolades include the WhatUni? Student Choice University of the Year and first place in the THE Student Experience Survey.

Loughborough pride themselves on being inclusive for all, with students, graduates and staff at the heart of the university experience. The Student Experience at Loughborough gives "every student the opportunity they need to achieve their full potential." Strong connections toindustry, both local and internation, boost these opportunities.

Services for International Students
Loughborough University offer a free airport pickup service for international students, which runs at various times leading up to the start of the academic year. At the beginning of term, the International Office runs an induction session for new international students to introduce them to university life and useful departments. Pre-sessional English courses lasting ten weeks before the beginning of term are also available.

Ranking
7th in the Times University Guide 2021
7th in the Guardian University Guide 2021
226th in the QS World University Rankings 2021
Times Higher Education has found Loughborough to have the UK’s Best Student Experience over the last 10 years, and the University has also been awarded 5* for Internationalisation by QS Stars Scheme. It is also the UK’s best university for quality of student life in the Lloyds Bank Survey and a former 'University of the Year' for Sport.

Loughborough University is a top ten UK university for research standards, and following the 2014 Research Excellence Framework, there was a 37% increase in the proportion of the University’s research considered to be “world-leading”. Only Loughborough and the University of Oxford have received the prestigious Queen’s Anniversary Prize for outstanding applied research seven times.