Tompkins Table - Baxter Tables

Baxter Tables

The University of Cambridge compiles similar tables called Baxter Tables, which rank colleges' undergraduate students by their year and subject separately and are published in September. They are compiled using published Class Lists, which do not include students who are not candidates for Honours degrees, or those who have failed to gain a degree. They are meant for internal use, being distributed to the Senior Tutors of the Colleges, with the full tables not being published publicly or outside of the Colleges or departments of the university, and some students being unaware of their existence. However, the rankings of Colleges in the Baxter Tables are sometimes referred to by the Colleges and the University in publicly available literature, and the methodology used to compile the Baxter Tables is also available. There is also a 'value-added' table, which shows how students' results improve over the course of their years at Cambridge, and is intended to give a measure or indication of the quality of teaching at the different Colleges. However, with such small sample sizes, the amount of meaningful information which can be extracted from these tables is questionable.