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Our team includes experienced university leaders who have driven transformational change within institutions.
Why choose SUMS Consulting?
Take me to the efficiency pageTransform your operations to drive efficiency and enhance service quality
We don’t just understand higher education — we live and breathe it. SUMS supports over 60% of UK universities, including Cardiff, Nottingham, and Durham, as well as global institutions like Trinity College Dublin and KAUST.
Our expertise is built around:
Deep sector knowledge
The best of both worlds
We combine hands-on HE experience with commercial expertise from top firms like EY, PwC, and PA Consulting, delivering cutting-edge solutions tailored to the sector.
Practical, cost-effective solutions
More than just reports, we provide actionable insights and recommendations ready for you to implement, all at 20% lower costs than commercial consultancies.
True partnership
Guiding, challenging and supporting our members every step of the way to co-design sustainable change.
With a true commitment to the sector
As a not-for-profit, our goal is to maximise value for the sector, not profit from it. We reinvest in higher education, sharing insights and best practices to help the whole sector thrive.
Where can universities find real efficiencies?
SUMS helps universities find real efficiencies — not just by cutting costs, but by rethinking business models, improving decision-making, and designing sustainable, future-ready operations.
We follow the evidence, which helps us find genuine efficiencies for all universities. SUMS’ insight diagnostic (data, benchmarking and insights) is designed to guide the decisions you take around efficiency and effectiveness, specifically shining a spotlight not just on your own data and trends, but how these stack up against relevant comparator institutions.
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