University Prestige Rankings

Kings college is highly prestigious as oxbridge. Go to india they know bout it. Ask em bout exeter, it might sound like exit her!!

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Might I just point out, in light of your last statement, that Oxford regularly ask for just AAA for humanities subjects whereas Exeter has been known to ask for A*AA/A*A*A. Does that mean the students at Exeter are better? No.

London met is rapidly increasing in prestige

Luther Van

I think what's strange here is you pathetic attempt to dissuade the people to look at the league tables differently. All major ranking league tables are saying your beloved King's is not in anyway a peer of Warwick, UCL, Durham, St. Andrews and such universities. King's is good, but it is not in a league of Warwick, Durham, St. Andrews and UCL.

Who cares what internationally covered rankings say? No one pays much attention to it for undergraduate education. Internationally covered rankings are largely for graduate and post-graduate levels.

Yes, that's true StA isn't part of the RG, yet it's prestigious and famous, and is one of the toughest unis to get into. Regardless how it became so, is not what this thread was about. The thread was simply asking the prestigious UK unis, and I gave the best answers.

The best way to measure prestige is by knowing the selectivity level of the institution and its enrollment yield rate. I have no question in my mind that St A performs quite well in those areas. Look at the Entrance Requirement of St A and compare it to, say, King's College who's part of the RG. Then you can see for yourself that StA demands higher entry than King's does -- by a wide margin -- and thus StA has better, superior student makeup compared to King's does.

Let me be clearer this time. For UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION In the UK, it's generally like this:

Oxford, Cambridge -- In the league of their own

1. LSE, Imperial

2.a. UCL, Warwick
2.b. Durham, St. Andrews, Bristol, Edinburgh

3. Manchester, Notts, Bath, York, King's, Exeter and so on...


Unis that fall in 2.a. and 2.b. are interchangeable and may overlap in some areas depending on the interest of the applicants/students. For example, many elite students pursuing IR would place StA on top of his college choices and would rank it above UCL and/or Warwick. But, by and large, the placement of unis above -- in terms of prestige and brand name cache -- both nationally and internationally are pretty close to how I enumerated them.

Might I just point out, in light of your last statement, that Oxford regularly ask for just AAA for humanities subjects whereas Exeter has been known to ask for A*AA/A*A*A. Does that mean the students at Exeter are better? No.

How would you rate the top British universities in terms of prestige?

For me, it's:

Oxford/Cambridge
Imperial/LSE
Durham/Bristol/UCL/St Andrews
Warwick
York/Edinburgh/kings
Exeter/Nottingham/Manchester/Bath
Leeds/Newcastle/Glasgow
Birmingham
Sheffield
Southampton
Cardiff
Liverpool
Queen Mary
QUB

That's just my impression, what's yours?

why is nottingham so high when its lower than sheffield and southampton on most league tables
also why liverpool so low?

Strangely, on TSR, prestige rankings are like this:

- Oxford, Cambridge
- Durham, Warwick
- Imperial, UCL, St Andrews
- LSE, Bath, York, Exeter
- Bristol, KCL, Manchester
- Edinburgh
- Then rest of Russell Group



Absurd thinking.

^^^ I know Luther Van is from India and has never attended a top UK university.


King's in not as prestigious at Oxford and/or Cambridge even in India. Not even LSE and Imperial are viewed as prestigious as Oxbridge in India.

... and, speaking of India, the billionaire Tata made a huge donation to a UK uni, but not to King's.
Luther Van, King's College's number 1 fan, could only wish that it be King's. But it's not. It's the uni which he hates the most -- http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/wmg/research/naic

lol...

Liverpool is 3rd after Oxbridge mate

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Yes, that's true StA isn't part of the RG, yet it's prestigious and famous, and is one of the toughest unis to get into. Regardless how it became so, is not what this thread was about. The thread was simply asking the prestigious UK unis, and I gave the best answers.

The best way to measure prestige is by knowing the selectivity level of the institution and its enrollment yield rate. I have no question in my mind that St A performs quite well in those areas. Look at the Entrance Requirement of St A and compare it to, say, King's College who's part of the RG. Then you can see for yourself that StA demands higher entry than King's does -- by a wide margin -- and thus StA has better, superior student makeup compared to King's does.

How did you arrive at the conclusion "no one" pays attention to international league tables when making decisions about their choice of undegraduate education?

Such unsubstantiated and illogical statement reflects badly on the quality of a Warwick student, you know?

One only has to look at TSR and see how university applicants talk about international league tables. Are you saying they are "no ones"?

What about liverpooooool

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You sad sad sad little man, where is KCL in this ranking? It's not even featured at all


KCL is overhyped

Meh, not really. Its entry requirements are artificially kept high because of the low supply of places to domestic students. St. A practically offers their right tit to international students (especially Americans) leaving domestic - not even Scottish places - at record breaking low levels.

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