Top Universities in the UK

Here is our comprehensive guide listing down the top universities in the UK.

Rated consistently in the top 10 study destinations across the world for International students and growing every year, the UK has a lot to offer. One of the primary reasons why it’s a popular destination is the number of top universities present in the country. We have compiled the list of top-ranked colleges and universities in the UK for you along with the details. For the QS world ranking of top UK universities, please click here.

 University of Oxford

Founded: 1096

City: Oxford

Ranking: 4^th in the World, 1^st In UK

Fee Structure:

Undergraduate: Between £25,740 and £36,065 (Approximately)

Postgraduate: £25,740 and £36,065 (Approximately)

Eligibility Requirements:

Undergraduate: 95% in 12th

Postgraduate: 95% in Graduation

Some Facts:

• Oxford was ranked first in the world in the Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings for 2017, 2018 and 2019.
• There are over 24,000 students at Oxford, including 11,930 undergraduates and 11,813 postgraduates.
• Oxford is very competitive: more than 21,500 people applied for around 3,300 undergraduate places for entry in 2018. That means that Oxford receives, on average, more than 6 applications for each available place.
• Most of Oxford’s UK undergraduates come from state schools. The latest figures show that, of places offered to UK applicants, over 60.5% of undergraduate places went to students from the state sector.
• Oxford offers more than 350 different graduate degree programs.
• International students make up almost 43% of our total student body – over 10,000 students. Students come to Oxford from more than 150 countries and territories.

University of Cambridge

Founded: 1209

City: Cambridge

Ranking: 7^th in the World, 2^st In UK

Fee Structure:

Undergraduate: Between £21,740 and £55,065 (Approximately)

Postgraduate: £21,740 and £55,065 (Approximately)

Eligibility Requirements:

Undergraduate: 95% in 12th

Postgraduate: 95% in Graduation

Some Facts:

• The University of Cambridge is the world’s third oldest surviving university and was founded in 1209 by scholars of the University of Oxford
• Cambridge has a very long list of notable alumni from across the disciplines. Among the many, there are Charles Darwin, Sir Isaac Newton, and Stephen Hawking, currently the Director of Research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology. There is David Attenborough, whose voice you might know from the Life series, an anthropologist and primatologist Jane Goodall
• The University of Cambridge has over 100 libraries
• The University has 31 colleges. In addition to being admitted to the university itself, students must also be admitted to one of the colleges

University College London.

Founded: 1826

City: London

Ranking: 8^th in the World, 3^rd In UK

Fee Structure:

Undergraduate: Between £21,740 and £55,065 (Approximately)

Postgraduate: £21,740 and £55,065 (Approximately)

Eligibility Requirements:

Undergraduate: 95% in 12th

Postgraduate: 95% in Graduation

Some Facts:

• At the time of UCL’s founding, there were only two other universities in England, in Oxford and Cambridge
• It was the first English university to admit women on equal terms with men
• Jeremy Bentham’s skeleton is on display on the campus
• Among the ‘Father of the Nations’ to have attended UCL are Mahatma Gandhi of India, Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk of Czechoslovakia and Jomo Kenyatta of Kenya, while the founders of Ghana (Kwame Nkrumah, also considered the ‘Father of African Nationalism’), modern Japan and Nigeria also attended.

University of Edinburgh

Founded: 1582

City: Edinburg

Ranking: 20^th in the World, 5^th In UK

Fee Structure:

Undergraduate: Between £21,740 and £55,065 (Approximately)

Postgraduate: £21,740 and £55,065 (Approximately)

Eligibility Requirements:

Undergraduate: 95% in 12th

Postgraduate: 95% in Graduation

Imperial College, London

Founded: 1851

City: London

Ranking: 9^th in the World, 4^th In UK

Fee Structure:

Undergraduate: Between £25,740 and £36,065 (Approximately)

Postgraduate: £25,740 and £36,065 (Approximately)

Eligibility Requirements:

Undergraduate: 95% in 12th

Postgraduate: 95% in Graduation

Some Facts:

• Over 6,700 degrees are awarded by Imperial College London every year
• The College focuses on the four main disciplines of science, engineering, medicine, and business and is renowned for its application of these skills to industry and enterprise.
• Excellence in education is at the core of Imperial’s ethos and is reflected in UK and international rankings. Find out how Imperial performed this year.
• Imperial is home to the greatest concentration of high-impact research of any major UK university. More about how the College performed in Research Excellence.
• Imperial holds a Silver Athena Swan award, which recognizes advancing women’s careers in science, technology, engineering, maths and medicine in academia