Best Universities in the United Kingdom
Degree structures in the United Kingdom are shorter than in much of Europe: many taught master's courses run for a single year of full-time study, while Scottish undergraduate degrees are longer than their counterparts in England and Wales. The sector also splits between long-established research universities and the post-1992 institutions that grew out of the polytechnics, which tend towards applied, industry-facing teaching. Everything is taught in English, so there is no separate language track to look for. Our catalogue covers England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland — 50 universities and 5,933 programmes between them.
The 32 universities below carry an EduRank research ranking and appear in world-rank order. Research standing is only part of the picture, so weigh it against each institution's acceptance rate and the programmes it actually runs.
University of Oxford
University of Cambridge
University College London (UCL)
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University of Edinburgh
Imperial College London
University of Manchester
King's College London
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University of Glasgow
University of Bristol
University of Leeds
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University of Southampton
University of Sheffield
University of Warwick
London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
University of Exeter
Durham University
University of Aberdeen
University of Surrey
University of East Anglia
University of Bath
University of Dundee
University of Essex
University of Hull
University of Bangor
University of Hertfordshire
University of Bradford
University of Brighton
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University of Central Lancashire
University of Huddersfield
University of Derby
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University of Gloucestershire
University of Chichester
