The University of Aberdeen has risen two places in a new league table ranking the country's best education institutions.

Aberdeen now sits 46th in the Complete University Guide for 2018 with Robert Gordon University down 11 places in 75th spot.

Scotland's top university is the University of St Andrews with the third place finish in the UK list, signalling a rise of two spots from 2017.

In separate listings covering 70 subjects, St Andrews features in the top ten for 23 of the 25 subjects it teaches, occupying the top UK spot in two (Business & Management Studies and Middle Eastern & African Studies).

As a nation, Scotland outperformed the other UK countries in three of the key measures used to rank universities.