UCL vs Imperial vs LSE

So this is not a ignorant post or something.
I would just like to listen to your opion:
Purely based on the general "prestige factor", which one receives the most "wow"s ?

It's mostly dependent on what you're studying. The social sciences for instance would have people thinking LSE.

If you're so convinced why are you asking?

(I mean, I presume you are aware for example that even the uni ranking guides themselves have admitted that a uni like LSE gets "unfairly ranked" because of its limited range of offerings, and that all the unis you mentioned have been accused of treating postgrads like cash cows, and if you're doing social sciences good luck with finding either imperial or UCL treated with the same kind of wow factor outside the UK....and if maths or stats or sciences similar conclusion re finding anyone ranking UCL > imperial). but hey, you're clearly trying to convince yourself ...

Why would you care? It shouldn't matter what the average person on the street thinks about your university and how prestigious it is. It would also differ based upon whether someone is interested in social sciences, natural sciences, etc.

In reality, a lot of people simply would not have heard of any university outside of their local university and Oxbridge, as the former they will encounter regularly and because the latter have been in films, literature and the media in general for years.

What matters is that employers, obviously, know that they are three of the best universities in the country, and students from any of them will be highly capable.

True, I acknowledge that and I agree. However, as I said in the opening post, I am just curious to conduct this survey.

You will mostly just get people from the respective universities voting for their own one.

What would that really tell you?

That if they do that, then they just want to say that their uni is the best and they are not objective. I know that in TSR that's how they do like in many surveys, but it sucks.
I am looking fort someone to expressing his opion (by using facts and arguments like I did) so that he can explain why according to him X uni is the most prestigious one.
If you are being examined and they ask you "which method is the best" and you just say "method X is the best" without explaining it, then you will fail.

Well flawed undergrad rankings are not the best guide, so "facts" are not always as objective and useful as you may think.
The best guide is to see how - depending on what you want to do afterwards - academics or private sector employers value each. Of course this data is much harder to get hold of.

You can't compare them directly as has been said a number of times. Unless I am mistaken, LSE doesn't offer engineering and imperial doesn't offer much (anything?) in the way of social sciences. For my background LSE trumps the others hands down and I say this in terms of number of LSE vs other graduates I meet in good (not entry level) jobs. For someone in an engineering field it would undoubtedly be imperial on the same basis vs the other two unis you have here. I'm sure there must be some field it would work for UCL (I must say however I was very intrigued while following last year's UCL postgrad thread how many people only accepted there after being rejected elsewhere. That was curious to me. I haven't followed this year's so not sure if it is looking similar.)

Yes, but again don't forget that what I am asking here is not "which is the best uni" or "which uni will give you more job opportunities" etc. All I am doing is conducting a survey "which of the following unis do you believe that it's the most prestigious one".
The ones who are interested plz state your opinions, the rest please don't go off topic.

Yes, but again don't forget that what I am asking here is not "which is the best uni" or "which uni will give you more job opportunities" etc. All I am doing is conducting a survey "which of the following unis do you believe that it's the most prestigious one".
The ones who are interested plz state your opinions, the rest please don't go off topic.

I am uncertain if this would be off topic, but was wondering if anyone knew whether UCL or LSE is better for public policy/regulation type of studies? Sorry if off topic, but can't really find a better place to post this.

As you can see both are pretty reputable, RAE and rankings would put LSE on top but I'd consider price as the bigger factor.

Thanks for your response!
The price is roughly the same, I hold an offer for UCL but still waiting for LSE so it might be a bit of useless question in case they reject me. Just want to think about my options properly