It amazes me on how multiple top universities in the WORLD are located in the United Kingdom and always have, which also blows my mind of how old these universities are in the first place! 📚📚📚 Have you been to any? Attend any? Is the list accurate or would you change the position of a university? Enjoy!
Just to answer your question or confusion about the videos reference to a ‘First Class mark’. Undergraduate degrees here are often graded using a class system if they are a degree with honours. A first class degree is the highest mark achievable and is equivalent to a 4.0 GPA. There are also upper second class (3.3-3.7 GPA), lower second class (3 GPA) and third class honours (2-2.7). There are also degrees without honours but they are far less popular, which is why you will see most people use BSc (hons) or BA (hons) rather than the ordinary BSc or BA on their CV or as post-nominals.
The two oldest universities in the English -speaking world are Oxford and Cambridge, but the next four are all in Scotland. St Andrews (1410), Glasgow (1451), Aberdeen (1495) and Edinburgh (1582). I have the honour to be a Glasgow graduate.
I am unsure how old this is but the current 2022 rankings put Oxford, Cambridge, LSE and St Andrews as the top four. St. Andrews wasn’t even mentioned. Durham is also high on the list as are Warwick, Durham, Bath and Loughborough.
Thanks for the update on the current ratings, Annie! I believe this list was from 2021 but the sources the video used could have been more opinionated or using a different list that isn't quite correct.
There are lots of different university rankings using different criteria. The Guardian has the top four you quote, whilst in the Times Higher Education Ranking, which ranks universities in an International context, St. Andrews doesn't even appear in the top 10. The Times favours academic and research standards and is, maybe, not so hot on things like undergraduate teaching. The ranking in this video seems to be the one from the Times Higher Education Ranking which is a lot more widely known in the world than the Guardian's ranking. A lot depends on those criteria, and a lot is subjective. The Guardian completely omits research quality as one of its criteria, which is rather bizarre. The Guardian rankings have a very strong weighting on undergraduate student experiences and that's going to have a big effect. for a more unbiased view, then it might be worth looking at where UK universities sit in international ratings produced in other countries. The Shanghai Ranking, for instance, has Cambridge, Oxford, UCL and Imperial as the top four in the UK (4, 7, 18 & 23 in the world respectively). St. Andrews a long way down at (joint) 26 at the national level and joint 301 in the world. There's a lot of subjectivity of course, but the criteria chosen for ranking matters massively.
Yes, there are plenty more outstanding unis. I was surprised to see LSE right at the beginning of this video. I would have thought it to be higher on the list?
I was fortunate enough to be an undergraduate at Oxford and a post-graduate at Cambridge. Both are well-worth visiting as the architecture and ambience are amazing.
The commentary on this was pretty bad. It also jumped past number 10 completely, whatever university that was. For UK students to enter university, they usually need to have studied advanced level courses (A-levels) in 3 or 4 subjects whe they were aged 16-18. The top grade is A* and, on application, universities will make the student an 'offer' requiring higher grades the more prestigious they are or how limited places on the chosen course are. Oxford and Cambridge have their own entrance exams which also have to be passed. Interviews are also sometimes required.
i am an offer holder for durham, edinburgh & Warwick (rejected from oxford post interview lol) but i’m going to leeds in september and can’t wait! rankings aren’t the be all and end all & are v subjective
In the UK we use the term College in two different ways. If you are in a University you may belong to a particular College. Each College of the University may belong to a different department/faculty and Specialise in different areas. Otherwise the other meaning of the word College is a place of Higher Education where you would usually study the Arts, Music, Dance or Technical Subjects, You may leave with a great Degree, Diploma or other Qualification but they are not generally as Highly looked upon by the Academic World.
As a Brit I'd heard of all the US universities you mentioned but you left out Yale. Harvard and Yale I always think of as your Oxford and Cambridge. I knew Kings College, London would be in the ranking - it's my son's alma mater. x
Graduate of Edinburgh University here, it was a great place to study and such a beautiful city. I was surprised Durham, Nottingham and St Andrews didn’t make the list.
I think picture wise this video has been poorly put together, because like you say that was a picture of Venice, of which I don’t think the University of London has any contention too, but not only that when they were talking about the University of Manchester they put a picture up of the Ferris wheel the London Eye.
I agree, unfortunately it's difficult to know the quality or legitimacy of a video now that TH-cam has removed the like/dislike ratio. As I was watching it I noticed a few oddities about it but hoped the list was generally correct for 2021. Whoever put together the video used the wrong stock footage it seems quite a few times. Poorly put together indeed!
Just to note: Cambridge is generally considered superior than oxford for sciences, Their Natural Science course is arguably the most famous science degree in the country and the world. Oxford on the other hand is more famous for humanities with its ppe course producing countless prime ministers
My American boss once introduced me to some Japanese visitors as "Educated at Oxford" which was true up to a point - I was born and bought up in Oxford. PS my boss knew this - he had a fine line of BS.
Heh, I didn't go to any of those universities but I've been to them all. I used to be a university administrator so I've been to conferences and/or on business trips to all of the ones mentioned and a whole lot more. I wonder if Durham was No 10 - but it might just as easily have been Birmingham, Sheffield, Leeds, or Liverpool. Or maybe even one of the "new" universities like Warwick, York, or Bath all of whom do well in the rankings. Or maybe it was St Andrews, the third-oldest university in the English-speaking world, or Glasgow, another great Scottish university. Plus Cardiff and Queen's University Belfast are also worth a mention. Oxford was once involved in a lawsuit with a Japanese college which claimed to be "an outpost of Oxford". The Oxford spokesperson was quoted in the press as saying that the only university that could legitimately claim to be an outpost of Oxford was Cambridge. 🤣 I thought the narrator's comments were aimed at US students who might come to the UK for a Master's degree - hence the comment about needing "first class" or Edinburgh being easy to get into. I'm not sure that's true about Edinburgh, and it certainly isn't true at undergrad level, but some other bits of the commentary also struck me as being more appropriate for Masters' level. As for US universities, I would immediately think of Harvard, Yale, Stanford, MIT, Rice, Brown, Columbia, Chicago, Duke, UCLA, UC Berkeley, and Georgetown.
Another issue with this I must mention is that while Oxford and Cambridge were lumped together as universities, London University was split into individual colleges (King's, LSE, Imperial). This is illogical.
Imperial is completely separate from the University of London (they split circa 2010) but yes, most of the rest are part of the University of London (to the extent of my knowledge).
It's not illogical as they are universities in their own right in that they grant degrees under their own name. It's actually a federal structure of different universities. In the case of the one I went to, Imperial College, university, that hasn't been part of the University of London for many years. The University of London is absolutely nothing like the collegiate system of Oxford and Cambridge. It's an entirely inappropriate comparison. Look at the university ranking lists; they are all rated separately for the very good reason that they are all separate universities just working within a federation.
The numbers for Imperial College are wrong (at least when I attended). There were more than 200 students on my mathematics course alone and I believe the total student numbers were around 10,000-13,000 at the time. In fact, looking on wiki, it stated there are 22,000 students (undergrad and postgrad) so even my knowledge from a decade ago may be out. Either way, definitely not 1500
I did a two-year postgraduate degree at Oxford (after a first degree in a provincial university) and met my husband there - we were both living in a graduate centre. I would not have missed those two years for anything. I did a thesis on aspects of Graeco-Roman scientific theories, while he was in organic chemistry. A wonderful experience in a beautiful city.
Jed Bartlet (The President in "The West Wing") got a Masters and PhD at London School of Economics (LSE). JFK signed up for a course at LSE, but had to pull out due to illness.
I'm an Imperial College graduate, and whilst it's specialised, the description is nonsense. Imperial has a huge medical faculty as well. It has over 4,400 academic and 4,000 administrative staff with over 22,000 students split roughly 50:50 between graduate and undergraduate. It is very big on research and technology, much of it contracted. It's basically the nearest the UK has to an MIT. As far as Prince Albert goes, he was famously very involved and interested in science and engineering (among other things), and whilst he would not personally have organised the setting up of what was Imperial College, he would have lobbied and promoted it and lent his name and reputation. Imperial College is actually made up of a number of constituent colleges, of which one is the Royal College of Science (which I attended). The writer of War of the Worlds (and much, much else), H.G. Wells was an early student there when it was called (for some reason) the Normal School of Science. Much more recently, Brian May, guitarist of Queen studied physics there and in recent years went back to complete his PhD in Astrophysics, 37 years after he started it (having taken time off to make some serious money with his guitar).
I went to Edinburgh and the entrance requirement in terms of grades in external examinations was low. However, I had to sit an entrance examination of several papers over two days before that offer was made. I do not know if that practice still exists.
If you were to look into "rankings" of universities, you would find that they are of varying kinds. Some rank on research output, while others rank on student experience, which may or may not include teaching quality.
Many ranking criteria do not directly relate to undergraduate degrees to any significant extent, but consider research grants/funding, papers/books published, citations, etc. For people applying for first degrees (Bachelor), it would be better to look at rankings per undergraduate subjects. Peer assessments by academic staff between universities try to keep the quality of degree courses equivalent.
Harvard and Yale are very popular here as well, just well known universities it seems that many international students go to. I'm not too familiar with them as they are on East Coast but often hear about these two or see them in movies just like Oxford or Cambridge.
I understand how you as an American are sometimes overwhelmed with the age of UK buildings and institutions. Most Brits don't even notice or give a second thought. I live in Bolton NW England and a pub in the town centre called Ye Olde Man & Scythe was built in 1251 and rebuilt in 1636. Still a pub serving good ales and ciders. One has to be careful though as the floor slopes down hill 🤣😂🤣.
It is very overwhelming the age of many things outside of North America really, the east coast already feels old to us having buildings that are close or over 200 years old. The age of Ye Olde Man & Scythe is over my head haha, but I love it!
UCL does not have a branch in Venice, but has outposts in other parts of the World. The mis-match between commentary and visuals on this video is not as annoying as the incessant repetitive 'music' drowning out the speech. Btw, it might be worth investigating Prince Albert - an amazing man.
Sorry about that! It was difficult to find a good video about the top ranked universities, many of them being very opinionated or just poorly made. It's a bummer that TH-cam removed the like/dislike from public view so I don't have much to go off of.
First gripe North Ireland. Second the background music could have been louder I could almost hear what she said. Why oh why is background music ever needed. Yes they repeated more than the one edit. University or College. College within a University, how do you explain that.
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What happened to the 10th University as the film starts with the 9th University. Glasgow, St Andrews, and Durham are also excellent Universities. Plus the UK has excellent Conservatoires of Music. I think the film kept making mistakes of images and there are better films showing similar information but less repetitive of imagery.
not surprised to see either of my ala maters on this list (U.C.N.W Bangor, and Portsmouth university) lol. They are ok but not ground breaking (although Portsmouth is a leading university for palaeontology and cosmology and gravitation). With Kings college, I think what they mean by a 1st class mark, is that you need to be in the top of your classes at school (getting mostly grade 9's at GCSE), and A's at A level, before embarking on your degree
Where i live we have University of Central Lancashire, They are continually expanding they recently built a big student accommodation and assuming they will continue expanding the city even dedicates a student night which is Thursday so drinks are cheaper at the pubs and clubs so everyone knew where i would be that specific night because it applied to anyone no matter if you go to uni or not because i never i'm unsure if this is the case now. But its always busy because its pretty much in the centre of Preston and on top of that about there's a collage within walking distance from uni so Preston is basically student central throughout covid most shops have shut so its now just pubs, clubs, takeaways and a lot of students from both uni and collage 😂
probably not my choice for top 10, with so many metrics available. either way, they'll all be part of Russell Group of Unis. Similar to Ivy League, but includes more modern red brick Unis like Warwick (1965)
I went to the London College of Printing at the 'Elephant and Castel' in 1988-1992 and passed my exams. It is Now University College London... So by default, I now have a degree I guess. Thanks for the upgrade UCL.
Off the top of my head, the main unis I know of in the US: MIT, Yale, Harvard, Stanford, Cornell, Caltech, UCLA, Johns Hopkins, Princeton and Duke University.
Some other universities that are well known and ranked as some of the best in the US , USC, UC Davis, UC San Diego, UC Santa Barbara, UTexas Dallas', Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, Cal Poly Pamona Cal Tech UTexas Austin, Baylor, Southern Methodist University, Texas A&M , Loyola Marymount University (ok I added it since it's my Alma Mater) , Uni of Alabama , LSU ( Louisiana State University) , Morehouse , Spelman, Grambling and other HBCUs(Historically Black Colleges and Universities most of which are in the South), Michigan State . I was kind of heavy on the California (LMU, Cal Poly SLO, Cal Poly Pamona, SC , UC Davis or Davis for short , UCSD UCSB)and Texas unis (UTA, UTD, SMU, Tex A & M, Baylor , what can I say, I'm a Cal girl born and raised and have deep roots in Tx ( 3 out 4 grandparents were born in tx) and Dallas in particular, and north Tx in general Ilove and is my second home since I've been down there to visit family friends so much prior to Covid ,
Obviously, in the US I tend to think of the Ivy League colleges, though I taught at a specialist university hospital in Md. My third son followed me to McGill, but he went on to Univ of London, whereas I did my fellowship in Hong Kong. My oldest studied at University of British Colombia, whereas my daughter and my fourth son both studied medicine at Edinburgh. My youngest is aiming to study astrophysics at either Cambridge or La Laguna in Tenerife. He has two years of high school yet, though.
I’ve got a soft spot for UEA - I last visited about 6 years ago (40th anniversary of when I first started there!), and I think it then had about 5x the number of students it did in the late 70s. Those tall trees between Union (formerly University) House and the access road weren’t there in my day - it used to be the bus turnaround!
Dude , youre reacting to an Ai generated top 10 video. The entire thing, voice, script, music and video clips were generated by an app. The person who got the ai to make it probably never even watched it.
The video is nonsense. Half the images used don’t relate to the college they’re talking about, in fact many aren’t even in the U.K. No idea what list they’re quoting from, I suspect it’s just made up for clicks. Oxford and Cambridge are at the top but 3rd/4th are usually Durham and Imperial. Durham doesn’t even feature neither does St Andrews. Find a better list.
This seems to be taken from the QS World University Rankings for 2023. It's more weighted towards research ratings than some other lists, which might explain why Manchester is higher, as it's rated more highly for research output than teaching. If you Google the QS rankings you can see how they work it out.
Love the vids fella, but what happened to your one after this one on the UK economy? Just watching it and it went blank. Clearly tldr is EU propaganda tho.
@@Haotheman No, it is not the same thing. Look at a map of the island of Ireland; The extreme north-west of the island is the County of Donegal which is the most northerly county on the island and so geographically may be in 'north Ireland' but it most certainly is not part of "Northern Ireland". It is, of course, part of the Republic of Ireland. "Northern Ireland" is the correct name of the north-eastern political entity that belongs to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
@@joyfulzero853 Taiwan's official name is the republic of china but no one calls it that. The beauty of a language is that, once an intent of a word is understood, the message and meaning of the word has already been delivered. Same context, same meaning.
@@Haotheman People can be very touchy about names and labels in Ireland; Derry / Londonderry being an example. It is wise to stick to what is agreed on and understood. Similarly many people from abroad refer to Britain as just England. That does not go down well if you happen to be in Scotland for instance.
It amazes me on how multiple top universities in the WORLD are located in the United Kingdom and always have, which also blows my mind of how old these universities are in the first place! 📚📚📚
Have you been to any? Attend any? Is the list accurate or would you change the position of a university?
Enjoy!
Just to answer your question or confusion about the videos reference to a ‘First Class mark’. Undergraduate degrees here are often graded using a class system if they are a degree with honours. A first class degree is the highest mark achievable and is equivalent to a 4.0 GPA. There are also upper second class (3.3-3.7 GPA), lower second class (3 GPA) and third class honours (2-2.7). There are also degrees without honours but they are far less popular, which is why you will see most people use BSc (hons) or BA (hons) rather than the ordinary BSc or BA on their CV or as post-nominals.
The two oldest universities in the English -speaking world are Oxford and Cambridge, but the next four are all in Scotland. St Andrews (1410), Glasgow (1451), Aberdeen (1495) and Edinburgh (1582). I have the honour to be a Glasgow graduate.
I am unsure how old this is but the current 2022 rankings put Oxford, Cambridge, LSE and St Andrews as the top four. St. Andrews wasn’t even mentioned. Durham is also high on the list as are Warwick, Durham, Bath and Loughborough.
Thanks for the update on the current ratings, Annie! I believe this list was from 2021 but the sources the video used could have been more opinionated or using a different list that isn't quite correct.
There are lots of different university rankings using different criteria. The Guardian has the top four you quote, whilst in the Times Higher Education Ranking, which ranks universities in an International context, St. Andrews doesn't even appear in the top 10. The Times favours academic and research standards and is, maybe, not so hot on things like undergraduate teaching. The ranking in this video seems to be the one from the Times Higher Education Ranking which is a lot more widely known in the world than the Guardian's ranking.
A lot depends on those criteria, and a lot is subjective. The Guardian completely omits research quality as one of its criteria, which is rather bizarre. The Guardian rankings have a very strong weighting on undergraduate student experiences and that's going to have a big effect. for a more unbiased view, then it might be worth looking at where UK universities sit in international ratings produced in other countries. The Shanghai Ranking, for instance, has Cambridge, Oxford, UCL and Imperial as the top four in the UK (4, 7, 18 & 23 in the world respectively). St. Andrews a long way down at (joint) 26 at the national level and joint 301 in the world.
There's a lot of subjectivity of course, but the criteria chosen for ranking matters massively.
@@TheEulerID World Ranking = Research output. Smaller unis rank lower in world ranking ie St Andrews and Durham.
Yes, there are plenty more outstanding unis. I was surprised to see LSE right at the beginning of this video. I would have thought it to be higher on the list?
I was fortunate enough to be an undergraduate at Oxford and a post-graduate at Cambridge. Both are well-worth visiting as the architecture and ambience are amazing.
The commentary on this was pretty bad. It also jumped past number 10 completely, whatever university that was. For UK students to enter university, they usually need to have studied advanced level courses (A-levels) in 3 or 4 subjects whe they were aged 16-18. The top grade is A* and, on application, universities will make the student an 'offer' requiring higher grades the more prestigious they are or how limited places on the chosen course are. Oxford and Cambridge have their own entrance exams which also have to be passed. Interviews are also sometimes required.
i am an offer holder for durham, edinburgh & Warwick (rejected from oxford post interview lol) but i’m going to leeds in september and can’t wait! rankings aren’t the be all and end all & are v subjective
In the UK we use the term College in two different ways. If you are in a University you may belong to a particular College. Each College of the University may belong to a different department/faculty and Specialise in different areas. Otherwise the other meaning of the word College is a place of Higher Education where you would usually study the Arts, Music, Dance or Technical Subjects, You may leave with a great Degree, Diploma or other Qualification but they are not generally as Highly looked upon by the Academic World.
As a Brit I'd heard of all the US universities you mentioned but you left out Yale. Harvard and Yale I always think of as your Oxford and Cambridge. I knew Kings College, London would be in the ranking - it's my son's alma mater. x
Graduate of Edinburgh University here, it was a great place to study and such a beautiful city. I was surprised Durham, Nottingham and St Andrews didn’t make the list.
Saint Andrew's University is the third oldest university in Britain (1412). But, I don't know how many Nobel prize-winners have emanated from it.
I think picture wise this video has been poorly put together, because like you say that was a picture of Venice, of which I don’t think the University of London has any contention too, but not only that when they were talking about the University of Manchester they put a picture up of the Ferris wheel the London Eye.
I agree, unfortunately it's difficult to know the quality or legitimacy of a video now that TH-cam has removed the like/dislike ratio. As I was watching it I noticed a few oddities about it but hoped the list was generally correct for 2021. Whoever put together the video used the wrong stock footage it seems quite a few times. Poorly put together indeed!
@@californianreacts I’m glad you noticed it too.
It isn't the London Eye, it's a wheel that stood in Piccadilly in central Manchester although it was removed a few years ago thank God.
Just to note: Cambridge is generally considered superior than oxford for sciences, Their Natural Science course is arguably the most famous science degree in the country and the world. Oxford on the other hand is more famous for humanities with its ppe course producing countless prime ministers
My American boss once introduced me to some Japanese visitors as "Educated at Oxford" which was true up to a point - I was born and bought up in Oxford. PS my boss knew this - he had a fine line of BS.
I was educated at Oxford to but only because I was born and have done so all my life.
Heh, I didn't go to any of those universities but I've been to them all. I used to be a university administrator so I've been to conferences and/or on business trips to all of the ones mentioned and a whole lot more. I wonder if Durham was No 10 - but it might just as easily have been Birmingham, Sheffield, Leeds, or Liverpool. Or maybe even one of the "new" universities like Warwick, York, or Bath all of whom do well in the rankings. Or maybe it was St Andrews, the third-oldest university in the English-speaking world, or Glasgow, another great Scottish university. Plus Cardiff and Queen's University Belfast are also worth a mention.
Oxford was once involved in a lawsuit with a Japanese college which claimed to be "an outpost of Oxford". The Oxford spokesperson was quoted in the press as saying that the only university that could legitimately claim to be an outpost of Oxford was Cambridge. 🤣
I thought the narrator's comments were aimed at US students who might come to the UK for a Master's degree - hence the comment about needing "first class" or Edinburgh being easy to get into. I'm not sure that's true about Edinburgh, and it certainly isn't true at undergrad level, but some other bits of the commentary also struck me as being more appropriate for Masters' level.
As for US universities, I would immediately think of Harvard, Yale, Stanford, MIT, Rice, Brown, Columbia, Chicago, Duke, UCLA, UC Berkeley, and Georgetown.
Looking at online lists, there are two that match their's and both of them have Warwick as no. 10!
you mentioned all other important high ranked unis that I was gonna drop! haha
How about Manchester
Another issue with this I must mention is that while Oxford and Cambridge were lumped together as universities, London University was split into individual colleges (King's, LSE, Imperial). This is illogical.
Imperial is completely separate from the University of London (they split circa 2010) but yes, most of the rest are part of the University of London (to the extent of my knowledge).
It's not illogical as they are universities in their own right in that they grant degrees under their own name. It's actually a federal structure of different universities. In the case of the one I went to, Imperial College, university, that hasn't been part of the University of London for many years.
The University of London is absolutely nothing like the collegiate system of Oxford and Cambridge. It's an entirely inappropriate comparison. Look at the university ranking lists; they are all rated separately for the very good reason that they are all separate universities just working within a federation.
It’s not imperial, it’s supposed to be UCL instead
The numbers for Imperial College are wrong (at least when I attended). There were more than 200 students on my mathematics course alone and I believe the total student numbers were around 10,000-13,000 at the time. In fact, looking on wiki, it stated there are 22,000 students (undergrad and postgrad) so even my knowledge from a decade ago may be out. Either way, definitely not 1500
I did a two-year postgraduate degree at Oxford (after a first degree in a provincial university) and met my husband there - we were both living in a graduate centre. I would not have missed those two years for anything. I did a thesis on aspects of Graeco-Roman scientific theories, while he was in organic chemistry. A wonderful experience in a beautiful city.
How is Edinburgh university requirements low ??!!
Jed Bartlet (The President in "The West Wing") got a Masters and PhD at London School of Economics (LSE). JFK signed up for a course at LSE, but had to pull out due to illness.
I'm an Imperial College graduate, and whilst it's specialised, the description is nonsense. Imperial has a huge medical faculty as well. It has over 4,400 academic and 4,000 administrative staff with over 22,000 students split roughly 50:50 between graduate and undergraduate. It is very big on research and technology, much of it contracted. It's basically the nearest the UK has to an MIT.
As far as Prince Albert goes, he was famously very involved and interested in science and engineering (among other things), and whilst he would not personally have organised the setting up of what was Imperial College, he would have lobbied and promoted it and lent his name and reputation. Imperial College is actually made up of a number of constituent colleges, of which one is the Royal College of Science (which I attended). The writer of War of the Worlds (and much, much else), H.G. Wells was an early student there when it was called (for some reason) the Normal School of Science. Much more recently, Brian May, guitarist of Queen studied physics there and in recent years went back to complete his PhD in Astrophysics, 37 years after he started it (having taken time off to make some serious money with his guitar).
I went to Edinburgh and the entrance requirement in terms of grades in external examinations was low. However, I had to sit an entrance examination of several papers over two days before that offer was made. I do not know if that practice still exists.
If you were to look into "rankings" of universities, you would find that they are of varying kinds. Some rank on research output, while others rank on student experience, which may or may not include teaching quality.
Many ranking criteria do not directly relate to undergraduate degrees to any significant extent, but consider research grants/funding, papers/books published, citations, etc. For people applying for first degrees (Bachelor), it would be better to look at rankings per undergraduate subjects. Peer assessments by academic staff between universities try to keep the quality of degree courses equivalent.
Im at Durham uni now. When I think of America I think of harvard and yale. I know quite a few more but they are the most prominent in my mind.
Harvard and Yale are very popular here as well, just well known universities it seems that many international students go to. I'm not too familiar with them as they are on East Coast but often hear about these two or see them in movies just like Oxford or Cambridge.
I am pretty sure one of the pictures of Cambridge University is a train station in Mumbai.
I understand how you as an American are sometimes overwhelmed with the age of UK buildings and institutions. Most Brits don't even notice or give a second thought. I live in Bolton NW England and a pub in the town centre called Ye Olde Man & Scythe was built in 1251 and rebuilt in 1636. Still a pub serving good ales and ciders. One has to be careful though as the floor slopes down hill 🤣😂🤣.
It is very overwhelming the age of many things outside of North America really, the east coast already feels old to us having buildings that are close or over 200 years old. The age of Ye Olde Man & Scythe is over my head haha, but I love it!
Do they still have a skull on the bar?
@@danic9304 No but lots of haunted tales etc. Information on Wikipedia. 😱
@@markwolstenholme3354 I grew up in Bolton - some of my earliest pub experiences were at that pub :)
Agree. My village was founded in the 1200 and my school 1600. But you are right never give these dates a second thought. Old for me is over 1000 years
It doesn't include the Open University and St Andrews University. Which are also umong the best.
UCL does not have a branch in Venice, but has outposts in other parts of the World. The mis-match between commentary and visuals on this video is not as annoying as the incessant repetitive 'music' drowning out the speech.
Btw, it might be worth investigating Prince Albert - an amazing man.
A dreadfully narrated video! Not you, but the awful translation bot giving the talk!
Sorry about that! It was difficult to find a good video about the top ranked universities, many of them being very opinionated or just poorly made. It's a bummer that TH-cam removed the like/dislike from public view so I don't have much to go off of.
Agreed. So called music far too intrusive, talking too fast. No expression, just wanted to finish as fast as possible, she probably had a date.
First gripe North Ireland.
Second the background music could have been louder I could almost hear what she said. Why oh why is background music ever needed.
Yes they repeated more than the one edit.
University or College. College within a University, how do you explain that.
the first picture of cambridge is also a picture of gloucester cathedral
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What happened to the 10th University as the film starts with the 9th University. Glasgow, St Andrews, and Durham are also excellent Universities. Plus the UK has excellent Conservatoires of Music. I think the film kept making mistakes of images and there are better films showing similar information but less repetitive of imagery.
not surprised to see either of my ala maters on this list (U.C.N.W Bangor, and Portsmouth university) lol. They are ok but not ground breaking (although Portsmouth is a leading university for palaeontology and cosmology and gravitation).
With Kings college, I think what they mean by a 1st class mark, is that you need to be in the top of your classes at school (getting mostly grade 9's at GCSE), and A's at A level, before embarking on your degree
Surprised Birmingham University isn't mentioned
Where i live we have University of Central Lancashire, They are continually expanding they recently built a big student accommodation and assuming they will continue expanding the city even dedicates a student night which is Thursday so drinks are cheaper at the pubs and clubs so everyone knew where i would be that specific night because it applied to anyone no matter if you go to uni or not because i never i'm unsure if this is the case now.
But its always busy because its pretty much in the centre of Preston and on top of that about there's a collage within walking distance from uni so Preston is basically student central throughout covid most shops have shut so its now just pubs, clubs, takeaways and a lot of students from both uni and collage 😂
probably not my choice for top 10, with so many metrics available. either way, they'll all be part of Russell Group of Unis. Similar to Ivy League, but includes more modern red brick Unis like Warwick (1965)
And York
You were very right about images of Venice in the mix! Twice! 😂
I went to the London College of Printing at the 'Elephant and Castel' in 1988-1992 and passed my exams. It is Now University College London... So by default, I now have a degree I guess. Thanks for the upgrade UCL.
Off the top of my head, the main unis I know of in the US: MIT, Yale, Harvard, Stanford, Cornell, Caltech, UCLA, Johns Hopkins, Princeton and Duke University.
13:44 Welcome to Cam--- sorry, Gloucester! D'oh! This is a Bloomberg vetted video? Oh dear. There are so many mistakes in that video.
I went to two of these ..... King's College London and LSE.
What about Warwick uni
I attended London University, University of Surrey, and Roehampton.
Great affordable quality of education.
If Bristol was number 9 what was number 10. I have been to Cambridge not as a student but as someone who took part in a research study
Prince of Wales and Princess of Wales both went to St Andrews in 2001
The video you are reacting to is really poor. During the Cambridge section there was a clip of an Indian city (Kolkata?). All a bit random.
It's much harder to go to university on the UK than on the USA.
Some other universities that are well known and ranked as some of the best in the US , USC, UC Davis, UC San Diego, UC Santa Barbara, UTexas Dallas', Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, Cal Poly Pamona Cal Tech UTexas Austin, Baylor, Southern Methodist University, Texas A&M , Loyola Marymount University (ok I added it since it's my Alma Mater) , Uni of Alabama , LSU ( Louisiana State University) , Morehouse , Spelman, Grambling and other HBCUs(Historically Black Colleges and Universities most of which are in the South), Michigan State . I was kind of heavy on the California (LMU, Cal Poly SLO, Cal Poly Pamona, SC , UC Davis or Davis for short , UCSD UCSB)and Texas unis (UTA, UTD, SMU, Tex A & M, Baylor , what can I say, I'm a Cal girl born and raised and have deep roots in Tx ( 3 out 4 grandparents were born in tx) and Dallas in particular, and north Tx in general Ilove and is my second home since I've been down there to visit family friends so much prior to Covid ,
Obviously, in the US I tend to think of the Ivy League colleges, though I taught at a specialist university hospital in Md. My third son followed me to McGill, but he went on to Univ of London, whereas I did my fellowship in Hong Kong. My oldest studied at University of British Colombia, whereas my daughter and my fourth son both studied medicine at Edinburgh. My youngest is aiming to study astrophysics at either Cambridge or La Laguna in Tenerife. He has two years of high school yet, though.
I didn't go to University, but have still eaten in the same room that Sir Isaac Newton had his meals.
University of Birmingham is one of the best tbf.
I got my Law degree from the top US University, ie. University of American Samoa
I went to York and Edinburgh
I would've thought Queens University would've been on this
Too many London Collages mentioned. St.Andrew's University, Scotland should have been there.
Where’s Sheffield 🤔
I'm surprised University of East Anglia not on there its a very good university
I’ve got a soft spot for UEA - I last visited about 6 years ago (40th anniversary of when I first started there!), and I think it then had about 5x the number of students it did in the late 70s. Those tall trees between Union (formerly University) House and the access road weren’t there in my day - it used to be the bus turnaround!
Dude , youre reacting to an Ai generated top 10 video.
The entire thing, voice, script, music and video clips were generated by an app.
The person who got the ai to make it probably never even watched it.
The video is nonsense. Half the images used don’t relate to the college they’re talking about, in fact many aren’t even in the U.K. No idea what list they’re quoting from, I suspect it’s just made up for clicks. Oxford and Cambridge are at the top but 3rd/4th are usually Durham and Imperial. Durham doesn’t even feature neither does St Andrews. Find a better list.
Better being ten of. Top is debatable.
That Video is a bit difficult to follow, the narration is giving a lot of information very quickly
Manchester is a fine university but out of place here, unlike Warwick, Durham, St.Andrews and Glasgow.
That seems to be a recruitment video.
This seems to be taken from the QS World University Rankings for 2023. It's more weighted towards research ratings than some other lists, which might explain why Manchester is higher, as it's rated more highly for research output than teaching. If you Google the QS rankings you can see how they work it out.
Durham, Edinburgh, St. Andrews is better then kcl
the music is too distracting could only listen for less than 5 minutes.
They missed out number 10 !
found the music off putting
Love the vids fella, but what happened to your one after this one on the UK economy? Just watching it and it went blank. Clearly tldr is EU propaganda tho.
It is Northern Ireland, not "North Ireland.
same thing
@@Haotheman No, it is not the same thing. Look at a map of the island of Ireland; The extreme north-west of the island is the County of Donegal which is the most northerly county on the island and so geographically may be in 'north Ireland' but it most certainly is not part of "Northern Ireland". It is, of course, part of the Republic of Ireland. "Northern Ireland" is the correct name of the north-eastern political entity that belongs to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
@@joyfulzero853 Taiwan's official name is the republic of china but no one calls it that. The beauty of a language is that, once an intent of a word is understood, the message and meaning of the word has already been delivered. Same context, same meaning.
@@Haotheman People can be very touchy about names and labels in Ireland; Derry / Londonderry being an example. It is wise to stick to what is agreed on and understood.
Similarly many people from abroad refer to Britain as just England. That does not go down well if you happen to be in Scotland for instance.
Bristol is by far the best University in the U.K. 😘👌
Background music very annoying.
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This video clip is just weirded, the phraseology and the clips
'north Ireland', NO, you pleb; Northern Ireland.
No one ever comes to Wales, you are all scared of some Celtic culture 🏴
This is wrong,
This video is not accurate. They show you City of Liverpool when talked about the University of Manchester.