Top students concentrated in just 12 elite universities

Those are statistics for those that attained AAB grades. It may well be that UCL has a higher number of students with significantly higher grades? It was the global university of the year recently was'nt it? Entry requirements at UCL tend to be higher than AAB for many courses.

where is UCL?

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I attend one of them.

" "The remainder of bright students living in the UK are shared between ..."

The author of this report clearly does not know the difference between England and the UK.

Data were published by HEFCE and so only account for universities in England. Many of the UK's top universities are not in England -- e.g. Cardiff, Edinburgh, Glasgow, St Andrews, Stirling.

I wonder how different the picture looks when the rest of the UK is included."

A comment from the article.

Nottingham, Leeds, Exeter, Bristol, Birmingham, Sheffield and Southampton, elite ???? Really ??

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/8635891/Top-students-concentrated-in-just-12-elite-universities.html

It shows that the highest number of AAB students attend Manchester, Durham, Oxford, Cambridge, Nottingham, Leeds, Exeter, Bristol, Warwick, Birmingham, Sheffield and Southampton.

Figures also show 99 per cent of Oxford and Cambridge's UK students in 2009/10 achieved at least AAB – the highest rate in the country.

Imperial College in London admitted 944 students with AAB, equating to 96 per cent of their intake, while 93 per cent of students at the London School of Economics – 617 in total – had these grades.

If anything im shocked that it is 99% and not 100% for Oxbridge given the number of straight A students they turn away

Yep. Overall league tables are BS tbh. It's how good a uni is at the subject you want to study that matters.

It only includes AAB students, KCL and UCL tend to have far greater numbers achieving in excess of AAB, with alot of A*AA and AAA students. However they also have lower offers for many of their other courses.

That explains it, then.

Emphatically obvious, and yet some people still hold these kind of facts and figures in disdain. KCL's omission seemed odd, but it actually has a number of ABB and BBB courses, so it fits. UCL's omission in bizarre though.

here are also some students who still get admitted with ABB...it is'nt unheard of at all.