Who are Loughborough Lightning?

Loughborough Lightning is the number one Vitality Netball Superleague side in the East Midlands and are the current VNSL Champions. Loughborough Lightning is the no. 1 Netball Superleague side in the East Midlands and has been competing in the Vitality Netball Superleague since its inception sixteen years ago.

Is Loughborough Lightning a university team?

Loughborough Lightning is an English netball team based at Loughborough University. Their senior team plays in the Netball Superleague. In 2005–06 they were founder members of the league.

What sports are based at Loughborough?

Loughborough University is the hub for sport in the UK, with a number of sports governing bodies choosing to base themselves on our East Midlands campus.

• British Athletics.
• British Swimming.
• British Triathlon.
• British Weightlifting.
• England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB)
• England Netball.

Is Loughborough good for sport?

Loughborough has been named the best university in the world for sports-related subjects in the global 2020 QS higher education league table. It is the fourth year running that the University has topped the prestigious table, cementing its position as the world leader for sport.

What is the ranking of Loughborough University?

In the 2021 guide Loughborough is ranked seventh out of 135 universities and is first in four subject tables: Building; Communication and Media Studies; Criminology; and Librarianship and Information Management. The only universities that rank top for more subjects than Loughborough are Cambridge and Oxford.

What is Loughborough University known for?

Loughborough is one of the country’s leading universities, with an international reputation for research that matters, excellence in teaching, strong links with industry, and unrivalled achievement in sport and its underpinning academic disciplines.

What does Loughborough Specialise in?

Subject areas

• Aeronautical and Automotive Engineering.
• Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering.
• Bioengineering.
• Biosciences.
• Business and Economics.
• Chemical Engineering.
• Chemistry.
• Communication and Media.

Is Loughborough an elite university?

id say generally in engineering and sports its near the top of the pile amongst UK universities, in general its strong but not in the most elite brackets of UK universities.

Is Loughborough hard to get into?

Loughborough University — Loughborough is best known for the quality of its sporting teams, but the university’s business degrees are highly valued and, as a result, its tricky to get a place. Average entrants to Loughborough’s business degree have 418 UCAS points.

Why is Loughborough ranked so high?

Is Loughborough a top uni?

Our reputation for sporting excellence, which spans performance, facilities, expertise and working partnerships, confirms our position as the best university in the world for sports-related subjects for the sixth year running (QS World University Rankings by Subject 2022).

Is Loughborough a respected uni?

Loughborough remains fifth best university in the UK in The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2020. Loughborough University has maintained its top five ranking for a second successive year in The Times and The Sunday Times Good University Guide 2020 and remains the top university in the Midlands.