Could a unified University of London challenge Oxbridge?
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Re: Could a unified University of London challenge Oxbridge?It doesn't in the social science rankings, which I believe is the point.(Original post by Tsunami2011)
LSE fares terribly in international ranking, so your point only stands for UCL and Imperial.
That table doesn't say they do offer degrees in history, it only says that Imperial have a small number of research staff who were submitted to the History RAE.
Yeah, that's why many of our leading universities (including Oxford and Cambridge) have an interest in (departments for) education and public health....(Original post by Harry S Truman)
So what? I'm sure the University of Crap Studies in Wyoming is well regarded for its BSci in Faecesology, but nobody cares about those rinky dink subjects. -
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Re: Could a unified University of London challenge Oxbridge?There are more constituent colleges in the University of London than just UCL and LSE.
.... By the way Imperial are no longer part of the University of London..... its been that way for quite some time -
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Re: Could a unified University of London challenge Oxbridge?No, a unified University of London cannot challenge Oxbridge.
That's because in the eyes of the media (who are responsible for feeding crap info to the public), a degree in burger eating from Oxbridge is considered better and will attract more publicity than an astrophysics degree from the third ranked uni in the UK, whatever the third ranked uni may be because again, the media doesn't give a s*** if it's not Oxbridge (for the UK) or Harvard / Yale (for the US).
