Are Durham and Warwick really that prestigious worldwide?

I found this surprising since the two are so highly regarded here. Anyone know any reasons for this? Possibly because they aren't in famous cities? I'm interested because, since we're becoming more globalised, it's likely most people will have to start moving and working abroad more often and companies will become more international.

Again, no disrespect to Durham or Warwick, just curious.

Durham and Warwick do all right but aren't all that prestigious worldwide. Mostly because they lack name recognition. Its the same with all small universities.

Have you heard of Williams or Amherst College? They are the top 2 liberal arts colleges in the US and Williams is one of the top 5 feeders to Ivy League graduate schools and yet few have heard of them.

Yes Warwick and Durham may be smaller than the likes of Manchester or UCL, but they're still medium to large size multi-faculty universities. I'm not sure if a comparison to Amherst, for example, which doesn't even have 2 thousand undergraduates, is all that useful.

This is a bit like Stanford in the USA. It is not "Ivy League" but alongside MIT is arguably the best university on the planet. Warwick is highly regarded here for being top notch. And Durham rightly or wrongly is regarded as being full of well educated sub Oxbridge often privately educated students. Both are very highly regarded.

No its not really. Stanford is better than every Ivy League except Harvard. In 2013 it won more Nobel Prizes than Warwick and Durham did in their entire history combined. Btw, I believe warwick and durham both have 0 nobel prizes. This is just an example, there is so much more that can be said.

In terms of number of staff who were currently working at the universities when they received their Nobel Prizes, I believe the number is 0. This is certainly true of Durham. However, there are a few gradutes of Durham and Warwick, or former research staff, who received a NP later in their career elsewhere having already started their research at Durham/Warwick.

I only say this as univerities often inflate the number of Nobel Laureates they have had by including junior academics who were with them for a short amount of time.. For example, often I see St Andrews claim to have one Nobel Laureate in particular Nobel Laureates to despite him being a junior academic (who then went on to Durham and then Birmingham to conduct the research which led to the Nobel Prize).

Don't fool yourselves...

This is a bit like Stanford in the USA. It is not "Ivy League" but alongside MIT is arguably the best university on the planet. Warwick is highly regarded here for being top notch. And Durham rightly or wrongly is regarded as being full of well educated sub Oxbridge often privately educated students. Both are very highly regarded.

This is a bit like Stanford in the USA. It is not "Ivy League" but alongside MIT is arguably the best university on the planet. Warwick is highly regarded here for being top notch. And Durham rightly or wrongly is regarded as being full of well educated sub Oxbridge often privately educated students. Both are very highly regarded.

In terms of number of staff who were currently working at the universities when they received their Nobel Prizes, I believe the number is 0. This is certainly true of Durham. However, there are a few gradutes of Durham and Warwick, or former research staff, who received a NP later in their career elsewhere having already started their research at Durham/Warwick.

I only say this as univerities often inflate the number of Nobel Laureates they have had by including junior academics who were with them for a short amount of time.. For example, often I see St Andrews claim to have one Nobel Laureate in particular Nobel Laureates to despite him being a junior academic (who then went on to Durham and then Birmingham to conduct the research which led to the Nobel Prize).

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The only unis that are internationally competitive wrt Harvard, Yale etc are Oxbridge and Imperial

You must be from Imperial lol. Imperial is good but its ranking is inflated because of its focus on courses that require higher entrance averages in general.