It is the first time, in almost 30 years of history of the definitive Guide to English universities (the Good University Guide), that a Scottish university wins first place and thus breaks the primacy of Cambridge and Oxford.
In fact, St Andrews University, the one that Kate and William attended and where they met, in fact obtained the first place thanks to its excellent performances in terms of.
- student satisfaction
- Research
- quality of teaching
- entry standard
- achievements of graduates
The university was consistently in the top three in the leadership of the Times he was born in Sunday Times in the last few years. In the nearly three decades of history of the Good University Guide, Cambridge or Oxford have always won first place every year.
However, the two institutions were toppled after an academic year in which higher education faced unprecedented upheaval due to the pandemic, when campuses were closed and classes moved online.
All this led to a drastic drop in student satisfaction levels and measures for teaching quality, among the key metrics used to rank institutions.
St Andrews was one of the few universities that managed to broadly support student satisfaction rates despite the pandemic, as it shifted its teaching model to small online classes.
The university is also likely to have benefited more than Oxbridge from the new admissions metric, following the inflation of student achievement last summer, when much higher grades were awarded than usual.
Cambridge and Oxford, which traditionally offer more places than they do, in the expectation that not everyone will achieve the grades they require, have instead faced a race to find space to accommodate a significantly higher recruitment.
The rankings showed Cambridge moved up from first to third place while Oxford kept second place.
Saint Andrews
Founded in 1413, the University of Saint Andrews is located in a small village overlooking the North Sea and has a long tradition. Surrounded by golf courses perfect for fans of this discipline, over the centuries it has been the destination of the offspring of many noble or prestigious families. (see precisely Kate and William).
Just a week ago Mary Beard, a classics teacher at Cambridge, in an interview with the Times he had urged families and young people not to be so obsessed with Oxbridge and to take into account the fact that there are many other great quality institutions in Britain.
St Andrews is also the best in the UK for: Business Management, IT, English, Middle Eastern and African Studies, Philosophy, Physics, Astronomy, International Relations.
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