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08-07-2005: 8th July 2005 20:22
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Originally Posted by Lillith Grimore
Camnbridge was recently ranked 3rd in the world and Oxford was 5th. Don't know who by though...
The Times placed Oxford at 5th, and Cambridge at 6th, actually.
Oxford, being the older University, is probably more famous worldwide; and the majority of people in the limelight currently, that went to Oxbridge, went to Oxford or have had an Oxford affiliation: Tony Blair, J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis (two authors who have had films recently made of their books), Richard Dawkins, Seamus Heaney, Tom Paulin, Andrew Motion (Poet Laureate) etc, etc. Add in Oxford's current academic and sporting ascendancy, and I'd say that RIGHT NOW, it is more widely heard of, and more widely revered, than Cambridge.
Could be reversed within a few decades, though. |
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