top 10 most prestigious Universities in the UK?

Oxford / Cambridge
UCL/ LSE / Imperial
Durham / St Andrews
Warwick / Bath / Edinburgh / KCL
Cardiff / QMUL / Loughborough / Lancaster / Birmingham

Give me your rankings

Here's mine

1. Cambridge
2. Oxford
3. Imperial
4. UCL
5. LSE
6. KCL
7. Edinburgh
8. Manchester
9. Bath
10. Warwick

I will let you into a secret - within academia the RG universities plus the ancient universities (St Andrews, Aberdeen, Trinity College Dublin), and Bath are very well respected. Lancaster and Loughborough, as well as many of the other traditional universities (Hull, Brunel, Royal Holloway, Sussex etc.), are respected. Only when you get to the level of Uni of East London, Bolton, Huddersfield etc. do you see a noticeable decline in how well regarded they are in terms of overall reputation.

Prestige is a stupid measure, but I'm really confused about how Warwick (and maybe even Exeter) has made it onto some of these lists. I hadn't even heard of them until I was looking at league tables (as a starting point). I didn't realise people loved them so much until I came to TSR.

Oxford
Cambridge
Imperial
LSE
UCL
King’s College London
Edinburgh
Manchester
Warwick
Bristol

Oxford / Cambridge
UCL/ LSE / Imperial
Durham / St Andrews
Warwick / Bath / Edinburgh / KCL
Cardiff / QMUL / Loughborough / Lancaster / Birmingham

Suprised Dundee, Aberdeen and Glasgow aren’t featuring more here despite being some of the oldest (most prestigious) UK Universities that rank highly in the UK, and even higher among the 21 Scottish Universities
Must be because they’re North of the Border so don’t matter

* Dundee being the ex-college of St Andrews (Queen’s College) and all 3 above mentioned unis/parent unis formed in the 15th Century

Suprised Dundee, Aberdeen and Glasgow aren’t featuring more here despite being some of the oldest (most prestigious) UK Universities that rank highly in the UK, and even higher among the 21 Scottish Universities
Must be because they’re North of the Border so don’t matter

* Dundee being the ex-college of St Andrews (Queen’s College) and all 3 above mentioned unis/parent unis formed in the 15th Century

I'm surprised Loughborough, is not on everybodys list, as a top 10, uni.

Shocking that so many people put Exeter on their "rankings"...being a bastion of white privilege doesn't make it prestigious lol.

Any reasons why for your choices?

In terms of reputation, Oxford cannot be above Cambridge, LSE can be above UCL but I still doubt it, Warwick cannot beat KCL as KCL is a famous brand and I will agree with Durham being above Bath. Where did Nottingham come from when Bath has a better reputation when it comes to employability? Exeter can't come into the list sorry.

That is my opinion.

In terms of reputation, Oxford cannot be above Cambridge, LSE can be above UCL but I still doubt it, Warwick cannot beat KCL as KCL is a famous brand and I will agree with Durham being above Bath. Where did Nottingham come from when Bath has a better reputation when it comes to employability? Exeter can't come into the list sorry.

That is my opinion.

somewhat agree but surely a more credible option for a top list than KCL?

Suprised Dundee, Aberdeen and Glasgow aren’t featuring more here despite being some of the oldest (most prestigious) UK Universities that rank highly in the UK, and even higher among the 21 Scottish Universities
Must be because they’re North of the Border so don’t matter

* Dundee being the ex-college of St Andrews (Queen’s College) and all 3 above mentioned unis/parent unis formed in the 15th Century

I’m assuming this^ is a joke. I experienced a fantastic education at Aberdeen, with quality and extensive teaching. Are you sure you’re not thinking of Aberdeen RGU?!