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It's global ranking doesn't reflect it's somewhat high national ranking.
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That being said, it is not a research-intensive university compared to even a place like Manchester or Bristol. So it is going to be ranked lower in that sense.
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It isn't viewed as a "target university" by the big Investment Banks and firms. A lot of this is down to its location.
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You cite it being a university of considerable age, yet it can only claim 5 or 6 Nobel Laureates amongst its staff or alumni. I think only one of those, Sir James Black, was actually a graduate of the university. So for a university of considerable age and prestige, it hasn't produced any alumni who have gone onto excel in their field even if they conducted their research elsewhere.
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Did people really care that much about the University of St Andrews outside of the medical school, until Prince William showed up? Not really. Even in Scottish terms, Edinburgh and Glasgow, and to an extent Aberdeen, were seen as the top Scottish Universities even though St Andrews did play a role in the Scottish Enlightenment.
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You can't really deny the fact the social scene at the university, for better or for (most likely) worse, has been dominated by this culture of 'rahs' and uppity preppies from the US (who just want to get bladdered), who couldn't hack it elsewhere and want to go to a secluded part of the country and spend the next 3 or 4 years, burning through daddy's money, and prance around in tweed pretending they're at pseudo-Oxford when they really aren't. Durham is similar in that regard.
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It's global ranking doesn't reflect it's somewhat high national ranking.
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That being said, it is not a research-intensive university compared to even a place like Manchester or Bristol. So it is going to be ranked lower in that sense.
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It isn't viewed as a "target university" by the big Investment Banks and firms. A lot of this is down to its location.
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You cite it being a university of considerable age, yet it can only claim 5 or 6 Nobel Laureates amongst its staff or alumni. I think only one of those, Sir James Black, was actually a graduate of the university. So for a university of considerable age and prestige, it hasn't produced any alumni who have gone onto excel in their field even if they conducted their research elsewhere.
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Did people really care that much about the University of St Andrews outside of the medical school, until Prince William showed up? Not really. Even in Scottish terms, Edinburgh and Glasgow, and to an extent Aberdeen, were seen as the top Scottish Universities even though St Andrews did play a role in the Scottish Enlightenment.
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You can't really deny the fact the social scene at the university, for better or for (most likely) worse, has been dominated by this culture of 'rahs' and uppity preppies from the US (who just want to get bladdered), who couldn't hack it elsewhere and want to go to a secluded part of the country and spend the next 3 or 4 years, burning through daddy's money, and prance around in tweed pretending they're at pseudo-Oxford when they really aren't. Durham is similar in that regard.
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