Rankings

The University Debating Rankings rank universities according to their success so far in European debating season. For the 2008/9 season, at every university-level debating competition held in Europe, institutions earn points for their top two performing teams and top two performing speakers if they perform well enough. The World University Debating Championships and European University Debating Championships are also counted. The larger the debating competition, the more teams and speakers earn points in the first place, and the more points teams and speakers earn for doing well. More points are also earned at tournaments with a stronger field of speakers. Winning out-rounds and winning the competition naturally also earn points for your institutions. The points which a University has earned at every competition so far this season are added together to produce their current points total, the rankings of which are shown below.

With the rankings updated before Euros, Oxford remain top of the rankings, but Cambridge are still within striking distance, hoping to grab the top spot at the final tournament of the season, as Oxford have done off Cambridge the past two years. St. Andrews leap into the top-10, from fourteenth to seventh, while Nottingham move up to fourth. Birmingham also edge into the top-10, while Middle Temple and UCD fall out.

If you have any questions or comments about the rankings, contact Jonathan Leader Maynard, Chair of the National Universities Debating Council, at jleadermaynard@freeuk.com.

Latest rankings

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European University Debating Rankings 03/06/09 – After 41 Events

	Rank		Institution	Points
	1	1	Oxford	726.1
	2	2	Cambridge	668.9
	3	3	LSE	367.1
	4	7	Nottingham	319.1
	5	4	Manchester	302.6
	6	6	ULU	216.1
	7	14	St. Andrews	205.8
	8	5	UCD	185.1
	9	8	KCL	182.8
	10	17	Birmingham	163.6
	11	25	Warwick	154.1
	12	12	Bristol	147.3
	13	9	Middle Temple	138.6
	14	10	TCD	128.7
	15	11	Monash	122.4
	16	13	MIT	120.6
	17	15	Sydney	101.1
	18	16	Helsinki	97.6
	19	21	Loyola Marymount	96.6
	20	18	Yale	91.1
	21	19	Princeton	89.3
	22	27	UCC	88.7
	23	20	Queensland	86.7
	24	22	Hart House	85.8
	25	40	Newcastle	85.0
	26	23	Harvard	83.4
	27	32	Cardiff	81.4
	28	31	SOAS	81.2
	29	24	Victoria Wellington	78.0
	30	33	Durham	75.2
	31	26	Seattle	69.0
	32	28	UCL	67.5
	33	29	Queen's	65.1
	34	30	Kings Inn	65.0
	35	49	York	55.6
	36	34	Auckland	49.8
	37	45	Glasgow	49.4
	38	35	Lincoln's Inn	43.4
	39	36	Tartu	37.6
	40	37	Tallinn	37.0
	41	47	Leeds	35.0
	42	38	Canterbury (NZ)	34.8
	43	39	Brandeis	32.4
	44	40	Stanford	31.6
	45	42	SSE Riga	31.2
	46	46	Edinburgh	29.6
	47	50	NUIG	28.8
	48	65	Ljubljana	28.2
	49	43	Swarthmore	27.0
	50	55	Aberystwyth	26.0
	51	44	Haifa	24.4
	52	76	Sheffield	22.6
	53		Tilbury House	22.2
	54	58	Inner Temple	21.6
	55	48	METU	20.8
	56	51	McGill	18.0
	57	52	UNSW	17.7
	58	55	Royal Holloway	17.6
	59	53	City	17.5
	60	54	Ateneo	17.4
	60	66	Leiden	17.4
	62		Berlin	16.5
	63	55	NLS India	16.0
	64	58	Portland	15.6
	64	58	IIUM	15.6
	66	61	Columbia	15.0
	67	62	Erasmus	14.8
	68	63	Galatasaray	13.2
	68	63	VU	13.2
	70		Groningen	11.0
	71		EDS	9.6
	71	67	George Washington	9.6
	73	68	Fordham	8.0
	74	69	Bates	7.8
	74	69	QMUL	7.8
	76	71	Aberdeen	7.6
	77	72	Strathclyde	7.2
	78	73	BBU	6.8
	78		Moscow State	6.8
	80	74	MMU	6.6
	81	75	NTU	6.0
	81		Exeter	6.0
	83	76	MRU	4.8
	83	76	Tel Aviv	4.8
	83	76	Witwatersrand	4.8
	86	80	LZUU	4.0
	87	81	SMU	3.6
88		82	Koc	3.2
88		82	Dundee	3.2
88		87	Lancaster	3.2
91		84	Imperial	2.4
91		84	Delhi	2.4
93		86	De La Salle	1.8
94		87	Glamorgan	1.6
94		87	Hacettepe	1.6
94			GDS Kailliope	1.6
97		90	VGTU	0.8
97		90	LU	0.8