<p>I would add SOAS, which is fairly well-known among people of the academia (humanities, of course), but I doubt that anyone heard of it outside of such circles. </p>
<p>Truth is, there’s Oxbridge and that’s it. Average Joe never ever heard of any other European university, only the educated can name a few other institutions such as UCL, Imperial, LSE and, probably, St.Andrews and Edinburgh.</p>
<p>As a fact of matter this is not something unique as the same applies to people all over the world - in Europe too.</p>