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Yes but also not really, i'm sure most employers don't know what Oxford, Cambridge or any good university is famous for and i'm sure most don't care. They are looking at the candidate in front of them not whether the candidate is distantly associated with a research discovery through their university...

For example, if I went to an interview and then mentioned that my medical school invented problem based learning, evidence based medicine and the multiple mini interview, would that make the employer think, wow this guy is a great hire, or would they think that i'm crazy.. Unless I was involved in these research accomplishments it doesn't reflect on me at all.

So let us examine the main leader when it comes to HE (sharing the same benefits of English being the language of academia) - The United States of America.

US: ~18 trillion GDP, ~320 million population
UK: ~3 trillion GDP, ~65 million population

Let's use the QS World Rankings as this is the topic of the thread:
US: 5 universities in the top 10, 30 universities in the top 100
UK: 4 universities in the top 10, 18 universities in the top 100

Seems like a very solid "pound-for-pound performance" in my opinion. It is even more impressive if you consider the ridiculous amounts of endowment US universities are getting. Just my two cents.

The prestige of a university should not matter much if you are a medic, surely? Unless you want a research career? What is more prestigious, becoming a professor in Medicine, or a Consultant?

Well yeah I do want a research career and generally becoming a professor in medicine is more prestigious, its much harder than becoming a consultant.

Yes but also not really, i'm sure most employers don't know what Oxford, Cambridge or any good university is famous for and i'm sure most don't care. They are looking at the candidate in front of them not whether the candidate is distantly associated with a research discovery through their university...

For example, if I went to an interview and then mentioned that my medical school invented problem based learning, evidence based medicine and the multiple mini interview, would that make the employer think, wow this guy is a great hire, or would they think that i'm crazy.. Unless I was involved in these research accomplishments it doesn't reflect on me at all.

When there are good and frequent research output, the university will be mentioned more by the media and thus its reputation will go up, or if anything, name recognition.

Isn't it practically a waste of money to go to a state US university? According to one of my american friends, he says the private colleges are generally much more regarded by the best companies, and therefore they attract the best talent.

But who is boss in the hospital? A professor cannot perform surgery.

Edinburgh better than Warwick for Maths...lol okay.

Where are the individual subject rankings?

But who is boss in the hospital? A professor cannot perform surgery.

King of the Ring this just demonstrates pure ignorance. When I read this I judged you pretty harshly, but anyways I still feel the need to teach you since you aren't a medic and probably just don't know any better.

A professor is a purely academic title, Professors of surgery perform surgery, professors of medicine are academic physicians, aka specialist physicians who have a consultant title and perform academic research. A professor of medicine is at the highest level in their careers. Generally, if you hold a chair in something you are often the highest or high level professor in your department and often have done some research that has made you noteworthy. Chairs often come with additional funding.

For example the Regius Chair in Clinical Surgery at Edinburgh is currently held by a surgeon and that surgeon performed the first liver transplant in Scotland and most certainly still practices surgery to this day.

You can't be a professor without becoming a consultant and you can't become a consultant without being fully trained in whatever specialty in medicine you pursue.

You're so dumb

It is only this which I needed to know. The rest was not needed. I was thinking in terms of professors in Medicine who teach in university hospitals, and not all of them will have previously been consultants or surgeons, will they?

As I don't study or work in Medicine, I am entitled to ask questions without drawing some rude response like
this just demonstrates pure ignorance. Such a response is just pure arrogance.

You asked a rhetorical question followed by an incorrect statement: "But who is boss in the hospital? A professor cannot perform surgery."

I just read QS's post on their changes and they actually claimed that they don't penalise specialised or non-English institutions. So this means what they believe that is the ranking is very reflective of the quality of the institutions with no exceptions.

I don't understand why they count both social sciences and engineering 25% though, and obviously how they categorise a discipline would matter quite a bit in this case. Psychology, for example, could be seen as a social sciences or a life/medical science. I suppose some institutions may even see it as a humanity subject.

Warwick is way better than Manchester, though one must acknowledge that Warwick will continue to rise anyway