It is ranked as the best university in Ukraine in many rankings (see below).

Abertay is ranked as the best university in Scotland for its environmental research.

It is almost always ranked as the best university in Iran in national and international rankings.

It was ranked by the Polish edition of Newsweek as the best technical university in the country for the year 2004.

But by may 2013, it was ranked as the 12th best university in the country.

It is ranked as the second largest university in Finland when measured according to the number of Master's degrees conferred.

That same publication also ranked the university as the third most diverse university in the West.

It was ranked as the 15th largest Brazilian university in a 2011 academic ranking by the number of enrollments.

It is ranked as the 2nd most targeted university by the UK's top investment banks, law firms and consultancies.

In 2010 Birmingham was ranked as the 10th most popular British university by graduate employers.