Top ten UK universities

The UK is home to some of the world’s most prestigious universities. Oxford, Cambridge, Warwick, LSE, UCL, Imperial, Edinburgh… Who doesn’t know these legendary universities? To attend one of these top-ranking institutions is to enter an international and innovative environment, and to benefit from an educational system proven by decades, even centuries, of academic excellence.

Are you looking to get into a prestigious university in the UK? To help you make up your mind, Your Dream School presents three versions of the top 10 UK universities of 2019.

QS World University Rankings, Times Higher Education (THE) and The Guardian: three rankings for three different methodologies.

Listing the best higher education establishments in the UK is a complex exercise, which follows a rigorous protocol. Various institutes regularly take part in the game, and each year publish a ranking of the UK’s top universities. Each institute applies its own methodology and relies on the performance indicators it deems essential.

The Guardian:

In its ranking of the 120 best universities in the UK, the renowned British daily The Guardian focuses on the most decisive criteria for students, including :

• Quality of teaching
• Opinions of students who have attended the school
• Career opportunities and speed of integration into the job market
• Tuition fees
• Proportion of students per teacher
• Percentage of students admitted to 2nd year

However, this ranking does not take into account research published by universities, as The Guardian considers this to be of little interest to students.

Times Higher Education (THE):

Each year, the Times Higher Education magazine publishes a list of the 100 best British universities, based on a methodology that uses thirteen performance indicators grouped into five categories:

• Quality of teaching and learning environment
• International perspectives to evaluate the ratio of international professors and students within the institution, as well as the number of research papers written or co-authored by a foreign author, and published by the University.
• Citations, enabling us to assess the impact and influence of our publications, both nationally and internationally.
• Research, taking into account not only the number of works published, but also the reputation of the establishment and its recognition in the UK and beyond.
• Knowledge transfer, to measure the University’s impact on industry, and assess its ability to provide innovative, high-performance solutions to the problems faced by companies.

QS World University Rankings :

The QS World University Rankings provide an annual ranking of the UK’s top universities, based on six major criteria, including :

• The University’s academic reputation
• Employer awareness of the establishment
• Percentage of international faculty and students

Now, here’s a summary table of the top 10 UK Universities in 2019, according to each of the aforementioned methodologies.

Rang :	The Guardian :	THE :	QS :
1	Cambridge University	Oxford University	Oxford University
2	Oxford University	Cambridge University	Cambridge University
3	University of St Andrews	Imperial College London	Imperial College London
4	Loughborough University	UCL	UCL
5	Durham University	LSE	University of Edinburgh
6	University of Bath	University of Edinburgh	University of Manchester
7	Imperial College	King’s College London	King’s College London
8	University of Warwick	University of Manchester	LSE
9	Lancaster University	University of Bristol	University of Bristol
10	University of Leeds	University of Warwick	University of Warwick

The Times Higher Education and QS World University Rankings both list the same universities in their top 10, although their positions vary slightly. Thus, in both rankings, the top four places are occupied respectively by the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, Imperial College of London and UCL.

The reputation of British universities extends far beyond the borders of the UK, and the admissions committees of these prestigious establishments process an impressive number of applications every year. To increase your chances of getting into one of these top-ranked universities, call on Your Dream School’s admissions coaches!

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