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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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[/quote]

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….[/quote]

I think this would be correct within the UK, as in how these universities are perceived in a relative sense. In other words, Oxford/Cambridge are sort of the HYP of the UK, and LSE is a Penn/Chicago, Imperial an MIT, and so on.

But in terms of actual comparison with US universities, I’m not sure I would put UCL, Edinburgh, Kings, etc as high as the list above. UCL is maybe a T30, Edinburgh and Kings T50s. Or maybe you could make an argument of all as T30s, it isn’t exact. But aside from research output, I would put these schools a bit lower than their QS or THE rankings.[/quote]

I disagree as it relates to UCL, Edinburgh and Kings. There is a reason every major world ranking that takes into account research ranks them that highly (even the American biased USNWR rankings say so)…….You cant discount research and quality of research  and just say “well…I think it is more like T50”. There is a reason research at these places are done at the top level…..Better universities bring better funding and more qualified professors, in turn they produce more research, which in turn brings in more funding, which in turn bring in better students, which in turn ……... It is a cycle that has been going on forever….you can discount an amazing research output of a school that has produced 20 Nobel Prize Winners and say “nah…I dont agree….it is all irrelevant…….they are at the same level of VT or FSU”.   Cmon…

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