5 best UK universities? (Excluding Oxbridge)

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No mention of Birmingham? :confused:

Birmingham is a marvellous-looking university with an excellent history (and a bright future too, by the looks of it). If a stunning university like Birmingham had a track record of being in the top 5-10, everyone would be mentioning it. Conversely if a university like Warwick fell out of the top 20, people would lose interest overnight.

Unfortunately ranking credentials are effective in conditioning some people's perceptions (particularly on here), but they're not set in stone. If you had to choose between a non-RG uni ranked 14th and an RG uni ranked 80th (with a good number of Nobel laureates to its name), if you had some sense you would still probably choose the lower ranked RG uni, because it has a much more rigid reputation even if it has a bad ranking. Just shows you what a load of bull league tables are, and also why maybe we should stop believing RGs always in the top 10 are automatically better than other RGs, and that this is somehow an unchanging fact.

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Leeholl

Original post by TimmonaPortella

NY Times, global university rankings by top employers:

3. Cambridge
4. Oxford
9. Imperial
15. LSE
16. UCL
38. KCL
42. Edinburgh
60. Birmingham
70. Nottingham
71. Manchester
125. Bath
135. Warwick
138. Durham
???. St Andrews

THE world reputation rankings (by worldwide academics):

2. Cambridge
3. Oxford
14. Imperial
17. UCL
22. LSE
29. Edinburgh
31. KCL
50. Manchester
81-90. Durham, Warwick
91-100. London Business School, Bristol
??? St Andrews

Yes,

Just to add another information:

King’s is the third best London uni in all the most reputable worldwide rankings, Except for THE.

Durham and St. Andrews are way too more prestigious in the U.K. than in any other country.

That’s a fact!