Which University is best for physics?

(Apart for Oxbridge) , are there similar universities?

i'm sure this post has gone up before, but i would like to see some more opnions =)

i'm having a nightmare picking between Warwick and Manchester...
anyone care to persuade me to either of them... ?

what would durham and imperial be comparable to in terms of skls in the US?

I dunno about the US, but probably Imperial has a lightly better international reputation and level of prestige, whereas Durham has a more happening social life.
I've seem it written in places (mainly by people at Imperial I think) that Imperial is the MIT of Europe - this sounds like wishful thinking to me. Granted, it's a high-level science and technology uni, but it can't boast to have the very brightest minds from Europe (or the UK) here - apart from a few they probably go to the Sorbonne/Oxbridge/Padova/[insert name of top national uni here]. I think it stounds out more for research than purely undergraduate studies, and has strong links to industry too, whereas Durham seems more of a traditional up-and-down uni which does a bit of everything.

cornell undergrad physics is ranked 3rd, after caltech and harvard!@

sourced from some credible book!

Well no-one seems to have said the obvious choice of Bristol, very good university.

But saying that, Cardiff is also very good now, not quite so well recognised as other universities yet but it does have a good physics and astronomy department.

Are you at bristol?
They offered me a physics scholarship but only if I put it as firm. Are these quite rare?