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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sorry but I'm a little sceptical.  I don't have any skin in the game - educated in a different country - but I do know people who have graduated from St Andrews and Oxbridge and/or have sent their kids there.

St Andrews is a very good school which is very focused on attracting students from the US.  In some courses, it is excellent.  Almost 50% of its undergrads are from the US and account for most of the university's revenues since they pay international fees.  The uni understands that where its bread is buttered and puts a lot of effort into rating well on various factors included in the league tables.

The kids I know at St Andrews are bright but none of them are Oxbridge material.  That isn't a criticism.  Oxbridge is just very very selective and conducts its own screening process.  They didn't even apply.  Oxford leads the research-focused Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings, where St Andrews rests between 201 and 250.  You can also see on the league table that N/A is recorded for a few columns for Oxbridge. Their students boycotted a national survey of attitudes and were assumed to have been less satisfied, in line with other students subjected to distance learning during the pandemic.

I suggest anyone looking at universities in the UK, to the extent you are relying on league tables, should focus on the ratings for the particular course they are interested in and [b]should also look at global rankings.[/b]

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Agree you should look at the rankings for your course of study.  St Andrews is ranked very high in a number of courses.

As for world rankings St Andrews number #95 in world rankings ahead of schools like USC and Wisconsin among others. St Andrews has been steadily improving while others stagnate or decline.   It happens. [/quote]

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