The University of Cambridge has retained its top spot in The Guardian's university league table for the eighth year in a row, with its course satisfaction rating rising 29 places above last year’s.

Cambridge achieved a perfect score of 100 once more, with Oxford coming in second with 97.2. Cambridge has widened its lead, as last year it was ahead of Oxford by just 1.9 points.

Alongside the course satisfaction ranking, which saw Cambridge soar from 44th place in 2018 to 15th place for 2019, satisfaction with teaching at Cambridge has risen from 15th to third place.

Subject rankings have seen wide variation this year. While Cambridge came top in 11 of the subject league tables that it featured on, its rankings fell in some subjects. Cambridge lost the top spot in Architecture, Biosciences, Computer Science, and Economics. In one drastic change, Music at Cambridge fell from eighth place in 2018, to 24th place in the 2019 ranking.

However, it was not all bad news for Cambridge in its subject rankings, as the Archaeology, Medicine, and Philosophy courses all rose this year to take the top spot. Cambridge continues to top more subject tables than any other university, with Oxford coming in second by coming at the top of seven.

For the first time this year, the tables also included a “continuation score” based on how many students first-year students continue into second-year. Cambridge scored top here, joint with Oxford, with 99% of students continuing into second year.

The Guardian’s score is calculated based on the factors “that are most important to students”, including how much they benefit from teaching, their job prospects leaving university, and whether students liked the university and their course. They exclude research quality, labelling it as “of limited relevance to students.”

A spokesperson for the University of Cambridge said: “We are pleased that this ranking, like many others, reflects the fact that the University of Cambridge is among a small group of the most respected and influential higher education institutions in the UK.”

The table is compiled using data Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) and National Student Survey (NSS) data. The Guardian explained that they also used some results from the 2016 NSS this year, following the NUS boycott of the 2017 survey, as otherwise there would have been insufficient data to calculate rankings for some subjects.

Cambridge also continues to top the Complete University Guide tables, and is ranked as the best university in the UK, and fifth-best university globally, in the QS World University Rankings.