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Each year since 2008, Times Higher Education has compiled a "Table of Tables" to combine the results of the 3 mainstream league tables. In the 2022 table, the top 5 universities were the University of Oxford, the University of Cambridge, the University of St Andrews, the London School of Economics and Imperial College.
King's College London. King's College London (informally King's or KCL) is a public research university located in London, England. King's was established by royal charter in 1829 under the patronage of King George IV and the Duke of Wellington. [9][10] In 1836, King's became one of the two founding colleges of the University of London. [11]
Due to its age [191] [192] and its social and academic status, [193] [194] the University of Oxford is considered to be one of Britain's most prestigious or elite universities [195] [196] and to form, along with the University of Cambridge, a top two that stand above other UK universities in this regard. [191] [193] [194] [197]
Imperial is widely recognised as one of the UK's elite universities. [108] [109] [110] In 2025, the QS World University Rankings ranked Imperial second in the world, behind MIT, equalling its highest ever position. Similarly, the Times Higher Education World University Rankings ranked it eighth in the world.
The QS World University Rankings are a ranking of the world's top universities produced by Quacquarelli Symonds published annually since 2004. In 2024, they ranked 1500 universities, with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Imperial College London, University of Oxford, Harvard University and University of Cambridge taking the top 5 spots. [15]
Due to its age [169] [170] and its social and academic status, [171] [172] the University of Cambridge is considered to be one of Britain's most prestigious or elite universities [173] [174] [175] and to form, along with the University of Oxford, a top two that stand above other UK universities in this regard. [169] [171] [172] [176]
Edinburgh was ranked 24th in the world and 5th in the UK by the 2021 Aggregate Ranking of Top Universities, a league table based on the three major world university rankings, ARWU, QS and THE. [225] In the 2022 U.S. News & World Report, Edinburgh ranked 32nd globally and 5th nationally. [226]
The Tompkins Table is an annual ranking that lists the Colleges of the University of Cambridge in order of their undergraduate students' performances in that year's examinations. Two colleges— Darwin and Clare Hall —do not have undergraduate students and do not feature in the list. It was created in 1981 by Peter Tompkins, then a third-year ...