Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Interesting Thread. We have a Junior that is adamant about going abroad.
Outside of Oxbridge/LSE or Imperial, how the next level of UK universities compare to US universities? I’m not asking about Job Prospects. Just a comparison of pedigrees in since this always the topic around DCUM.
What are the US universities that would group well with each of these?
UCL
Kings
Edinburgh
St Andrews
Based on QS rankings:
UCL - in between Caltech and Penn/Berkeley
Edinburgh - in between Yale and Columbia
Kings - in between Columbia and UCLA/NYU/Michigan
based on Times Higher Education:
UCL - around Cornell/Michigan/Columbia/UCLA
Edinburgh - around Duke/Nothwestern/NYU
Kings - around UCSD and ahead of Brown/UT etc
Based on US News:
UCL right by Columbia and Yale
Kinds and Edinburgh about tied and right by NYU
Based on # of Nobel Prize Winners according to Aron Frishberg website:
UCL - 24 (around Penn and Washington U)
Edinburgh - 20 (around NYU, UCSD and ahead of UCLA and Michigan
Kings - 11 (around Duke and USC)
St Andrews - 3 (around Missouri/Pitt and FLorida)
St Andrews doesnt do well in World Rankings as these are usually weighted towards research output and quality of research and not so much on undergraduate teaching.
But you can clearly see based on a variety of sources, the equivalent universities….