Is UCL the most overrated university?

No, UCL is actually underrated - many of its departments are world leading and yet people always say LSE and Imperial are better.

No, UCL is actually underrated - many of its departments are world leading and yet people always say LSE and Imperial are better.

Imperial is better than UCL in the vast majority of its subjects that it offers so in that way, yes it is.

Prove it.

For neuroscience, it's the leading university in Europe, but it definitely deserves its ranking

Honestly, go on the CUG rankings, the graduate salaries, the difficulties of the courses, the lab facilities, research 4* rating, bursary scheme, reputation, entry standards... and obviously I can't speak for every single subject at Imperial.

I don't know what you use to classify how good a university is but when many people say that a course is better, it often means that they have a 'higher ranking' so in that respect I don't see why it confused you.

Is it true that is the 2nd best university in the world for Neuroscience?

This is not proof.

No, UCL is actually underrated - many of its departments are world leading and yet people always say LSE and Imperial are better.

Honestly, go on the CUG rankings, the graduate salaries, the difficulties of the courses, the lab facilities, research 4* rating, bursary scheme, reputation, entry standards... and obviously I can't speak for every single subject at Imperial.

I don't know what you use to classify how good a university is but when many people say that a course is better, it often means that they have a 'higher ranking' so in that respect I don't see why it confused you.

What do you want as proof then? I'm not going to put up URLs of every single finding on the internet for every single measure of how good a university is.

You can try Googling it all for yourself...Now, social life is something that's better at UCL and if you value social life a lot then go for it.

Your initial confusion was at why people say LSE/Imperial are better; they're also more competitive and more highly ranked on most subjects.

CUG rankings (in fact pretty much any arbitrary ranking), graduate salaries, bursary schemes and entry requirements are not relevant.

Where is your evidence that Imperial's degrees are more difficult? Only someone who has studied the same degree at both UCL and Imperial is qualified to comment on which is harder - have you studied at both universities? I don't know anything about lab facilities; they may or may not be better at Imperial but I don't think it really affects undergraduates even if they are better.

I don't think you can compare the reputation of a specialist university which only offers a limited number of subjects with a multi faculty university which excels not just in the sciences, but in the humanities and social sciences as well. FYI UCL has more prestigious and world famous departments than Imperial. The Institute of Education, the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, the Slade School of Fine Art, the Institute of Archaeology, the Bartlett, the School of Pharmacy, Med School, Law School, as well as the departments of Dutch, English, Scandinavian Studies, Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Life Sciences, Neuroscience, Space and Climate Physics, Anthropology, History, History of Art and Science and Technology Studies all enjoy equally good reputations as anything Imperial has, and many of them are famous around the world.