United Kingdom

Education in United Kingdom

University of Cambridge

The University of Cambridge is one of the oldest universities in the world and one of the largest in the United Kingdom. Its reputation for outstanding academic achievement is known world-wide and reflects the intellectual achievement of its students, as well as the world-class original research carried out by the staff of the University and the College.
Ranking 
Cambridge has performed consistently in various league tables over the years, achieving the top spot in the world according to the QS World Universities Rankings in both 2010 and 2011.In 2012 same editors awarded second place for Cambridge.

University of Oxford

Oxford is a unique and historic institution. As the oldest English-speaking university in the world, it lays claim to eight centuries of continuous existence.
Since World War 2, Oxford has added to its humanistic core a major new research capacity in the natural and applied sciences, including medicine. In so doing, it has enhanced and strengthened its traditional role as a focus for learning and a forum for intellectual debate.
Ranking 
Oxford regularly contends with Cambridge for first place in the league tables, and consistently ranks among the top ten universities in the world, according to global rankings.

  

King's College London (KCL)

University of Manchester

The University has more than 70 departments involved in teaching and research, with more than 2,000 academic staff. The university has more undergraduate degrees than almost any other university in the UK. At postgraduate level all departments offer supervision for research and there is a wide selection of taught postgraduate courses across the range of academic disciplines.

Ranking

In the 2012 Academic Ranking of World Universities, Manchester is ranked 40th in the world and 5th in the UK. It is ranked 32nd in the world, 10th in Europe and 8th in the UK in the 2012 QS World University Rankings. The University of Manchester and its antecedent institutions have 25 Nobel Laureates among their past and present students and staff, the third-highest number of any single university in the United Kingdom. Only Cambridge and Oxford have more.

University of Edinburgh

The University of Edinburgh ­ the fourth of Scotland's ancient universities ­ was founded in 1583 as 'The Tounis College' by the Town Council of Edinburgh, under general powers granted by the Charter of King James VI of Scotland. First established on the Kirk o' Field site ­ now occupied by Old College ­ Edinburgh has expanded to become one of the largest universities in Britain with a world-wide reputation for excellence in research and teaching in a very wide range of traditional, high-tech and professional disciplines. University of Bristol  The University of Bristol is a research-based university of international standing. It was founded in 1876 as University College Bristol. It was the first higher educational institution in England to admit women on a basis of equality with men. In 1909 it received a Royal Charter from King Edward VII which enabled it to grant degrees under its own authority. The University is an exempt charity. It organises its academic affairs in some 60 departments and 15 research centres which are arranged in 6 Faculties    London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)   The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) is unique in the United Kingdom in its concentration on teaching and research across the full range of the social, political and economic sciences. Founded in 1895 by Beatrice and Sidney Webb, the LSE is one of the largest colleges within the University of London and has an outstanding reputation for academic excellence nationally and internationally. But this is an unusual UK university. Few university institutions in the world are as international. The study of social, economic and political problems covers not only the United Kingdom and other countries within the European Union, but also countries of every continent  University of Nottingham University of Southampton

UCL (University College London) University College London (UCL) is the oldest and largest College of the federal University of London and is a cosmopolitan university situated in the centre of one of the world's great cities. UCL has a long tradition dating back to 1850 of welcoming students from overseas - indeed UCL was the first university in England to admit students regardless of race, religion and gender.