Are Oxford and Cambridge the only UK universities that matter?

No. And in all honesty, you may find yourself run into trouble finding jobs with an Oxbridge degree if they're smaller companies - the person who hires you will also be wary of you taking their job from them a year down the line.

Guess my history degree I'll get in 3 years time from Oxford will be "useless" and have "no real prospects". Oh well.

What is your point? I know those statistics, but a large part of it is down to what fields Oxford history graduates choose to go into. It's not like people at the LSE (even LSE history graduates) who bum investment banking.

LSE and SGUL gradates make more money than Oxford and Cambridge on average.

It's an open ended degree....unless you go into the relevant field, where job prospects are limited, a history degree isn't exactly highly sought

I thought your earlier post indicated a sense of expectation (if not entitlement) that is no longer shared by the large number of unemployed and underemployed Oxbridge graduates.

Really the choice of career doesn't really impact on these figures. Those 11% are folk signing on.

A higher proportion of Oxbridge graduates go into further study and a ridiculous number of LSE students will go into finance. Hardly a relevant statistic.

But someone doing Celtic Studies at Oxford would find it hard to find a well paying job in today's world.

I know someone with a maths degree from Oxford who was working at Tesco when he came out of uni. The university you go to doesn't really matter (unless its decent). Its what you do there and how you make the most of the opportunities given to you.

Perhaps, I don't see your point though? Doing that subject at any other university isn't going to boost your employment opportunities over Oxford is it?

Cambridge, UCL and Imperial achieved higher scores than Oxford this year. The only reason LSE aren't there is because they don't cover all subjects, only the Social sciences and Maths. Whereas Warwick would be up there but they're fairly new and don't have that International prestige yet. However Id say the top 6 in the UK (Cambridge, Oxford, UCL, LSE, Imperial and Warwick) are all in the Top 12 in the world.

Tell that to the investment banks, where outside of six universities the chances of you getting employed in a FO position are slim.

Also, I take it this person ended up with a 3rd/2:2?

But someone doing Celtic Studies at Oxford would find it hard to find a well paying job in today's world.

Out of interest what are the 6 universities you are referring to? Thats true, but I know two people (through mutual friends) that are off to work at Goldman Sachs through an investment banking scheme for graduates after coming out with a 1st at Birmingham University. They were both involved in financial forums etc and made the most of/ or at least too the initiative whilst at uni. Im just saying that it is certainly possible, unless, for example, you go to for example an ex-polytechnic and are thinking of achieving the same.

Yep, you are right, he came out with a 2:2. I am just trying to say that name doesn't matter. Most people think that going to Oxbridge regardless of what they get will sort them out which is far from the truth.

No such undergraduate degree at Oxford exists

There is Classics with Celtic