(TEF) for June 2017. In the 2023 TEF assessment, the university maintained its overall Gold rating.
In 2015, WhatUni ranked the university 12th in its 'Student Choice Awards'. In the same year, the Times Higher Education ranked the university as 31st out of 113 universities in the country for student experience. In November 2015, Nottingham Trent received the Queen's Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education in the Science and Mathematics category, repeated in 2021 for projects involving digital imaging of architecture and heritage sites.
It was ranked 609th by the QS World University Rankings in 2026. Trent has also received a five-star rating on the QS World University Rankings for universities within the 500-600 category.
=== Research ===
The university has a research arm with, in 2014, 90% of the university's research considered to be "world-leading" and "internationally excellent" or "internationally recognised".
In November 2015, the university was awarded the Queen's Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education, "the highest national honour for a UK University" based on numerous research projects. In November 2021, the university again received the award, based on numerous research projects.
In the 1990s, psychologist Mark D. Griffiths looked at addiction to the internet, gaming, and later gambling and bizarre sexual fetishes. This was featured in the ITV documentary series '30 Minutes' in April 2000. He later founded the International Gaming Research Unit.
In November 2015 Paul Evans and his Imaging Science Group developed a 3D X-ray scanner, which won the 2015 Queen's Anniversary Prizes.
=== Fashion and textiles ===
From October 1995, the Fashion Information Service (FINS) was headquartered at NTU, which developed the Fashion Connect national industry database.
In 1998 the Computer Clothing Research Centre developed the Symcad system for finding better measurements of clothing, via 3D body scanning, led by Stephen Gray. In 1999 it carried out the first nationwide survey of women's bodies, …
