Why are there so few really good universities in the south east?

What about LSE, Imperial, Kings, UCL?

What about LSE, Imperial, Kings, UCL?

And you can’t say ignore London because London accounts for the majority of universities in the south east!

They’re in London

But London is not in the south east. Almost no Londoners would consider themselves from the South East

I mean it literally is in the south east - are you just drawing a ring around London as an exclusion zone? How are you defining the south east then because it sounds like a small area! As London is so close by majority of unis are based there - and so are the good ones

But London universities account for the majority of unis in the south east!

That’s like saying why are all Scottish unis bad but ignore all the city ones! It just so happens a lot of the universities in the south east are London, and most of the good ones at that!

I mean it literally is in the south east - are you just drawing a ring around London as an exclusion zone? How are you defining the south east then because it sounds like a small area! As London is so close by majority of unis are based there - and so are the good ones

No the south east is a specific region of the England. London is it’s own region in between the south east and east anglia

Exactly, this is what I meant

Do you feel surprised that the South East has barely any good universities apart from Southampton and Oxford? Compared to the West Midlands or the North East or North West?

I mean it literally is in the south east - are you just drawing a ring around London as an exclusion zone? How are you defining the south east then because it sounds like a small area! As London is so close by majority of unis are based there - and so are the good ones

well it’s not a very big area tbf. East England probably has it worse. Literally just Cambridge in the top 25ish and UEA in the top 40ish. It’s mostly because big unis are usually in big cities I think

i agree London is in the Southeast just like devon is in the south west

But the regions, according to the U.K. government, do not include London in the south east because London has a massive population only slightly smaller than the South East, and South West has slightly more than half the population of the South East. Also, almost no Londoners consider themselves as South East, but people from Southampton to Canterbury consider themselves southern.

so let me get this straight
Northwest- Liverpool,Manchester etc
Northeast-Newcastle upon Tyne,Durham etc
East Yorkshire- Hull
West Yorkshire- Bradford,Leeds etc
West Midlands-Birmingham, Wolverhampton etc
East Midlands-Nottingham, Leicester Derby
Southwest-Exeter,Cornwall
Southeast-Southampton, Kent
London-"all by myself"

Those are not the regions of England and you’re mixing up counties and cities. London is a region in and of itself. Its population is 8.9 million, the whole of the East Midlands is half that population. The economy of London is £500 billion, South East of England is £300 billion and £124 billion for the East Midlands. The South East of England has nearly twice the population and economy of the whole of Scotland which has a third of the U.K. land area


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regions_of_England

https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/grossdomesticproductgdp/bulletins/regionaleconomicactivitybygrossdomesticproductuk/1998to2018#gross-domestic-product-by-uk-constituent-country-and-region

give me a break i spent ages on that
also i included lots of different parts of england and included cities/towns that were in that specific part of england