<p>somehow theres this myth on these forums in the states that cambridge / oxbridge has money problems - that seems ridiculous if you visit the place.
in fact i recently found a thread on cc which gives research spending per university. There are a few things to note: JH includes money from a federal institute it manages and is thus artificially high, and the us stats are a few years older than the uk ones, so add a few tens of millions to the us unis. </p>
<p>(from thread "top private univ.s on pure research $)</p>
<p>874 million Johns Hopkins
455 million Cambridge UK
426 million Stanford
420 million MIT
400 million Oxford UK
395 million Cornell
383 million Upenn
348 Duke
326 Harvard
285 Columbia
274 Yale
253 Imperial UK
233 Northwestern
212 CalTech
167 NYU
162 Chicago
142 Carnegie Mellon
124 Princeton
111 Georgetown
101 Tufts</p>
<p>also Cambridge comes second worldwide in the biggest "world university ranking". And as for teaching, youll have a lot of your teaching done one/two-to-one with researchers and professors (supervisions). The tutorial system makes for much better teaching than most big, TA filled us research unis, imo.</p>
<p>so consider cambridge for physics, id say. was good enough for newton and maxwell...</p>