<p>RML has basically nailed it. There is a distinction between Warwick/Durham/St Andrews and Nottingham in terms of general reputation in the UK, largely because Nottingham has been on the slide over the past few years. If you were to ask 10 people in the UK for their top 10 universities in the UK, Durham and Warwick would probably feature the majority of times, while Nottingham may only pop up once or twice.</p>
<p>In terms of how much the universities are targeted by major firms/prestige/reputation it usually goes like.</p>
<p>Tier 1:Oxford Cambridge
(reasonable gap)</p>
<p>Tier 2: LSE Imperial
(slight gap)</p>
<p>Tier 3a:Warwick UCL</p>
<p>Tier 3b: Durham, St Andrews, Bristol, Edinburgh</p>
<p>Nottingham would go in the next bracket, along with King’s, Bath, York, Manchester,etc.</p>
<p>In terms of global reputation you can’t really compare the US universities with the UK universities, but if we look at it domestically, the top 8 UK universities are generally perceieved to be.</p>
<p>Oxbridge = HYP
Imperial= MIT
LSE= Stanford
UCL= Columbia
Warwick= UPenn/Brown
Durham= Chicago
St Andrews= Rice/Northwestern.
Notts= Virgina/William& Mary.</p>
<p>This in in regards to DOMESTIC REPUTATION and PRESTIGE. The top 8 are seen as the elite UK universities along with possibly Bristol and Edinburgh.</p>