Undergrad Degree abroad

[LutherVan]

@ACUNI123, I would never argue that LSE and Imperial are at the level of Oxbridge.

Apart from that, your post is quite decent.

@raincat, if you read my posts in this thread you might get a big picture of UK universities and their respective competitiveness:

King’s College London in the US

My friend has been accepted to study social sciences at King’s College London (KCL) as an undergraduate student. I understood KCL is one of the oldest and prestigious universities in England grouped as “Golden Triangle”, but I am not still grasping which US universities are comparable to KCL in terms of “name prestige”, “graduates careers’, and so on. Of course, I know entire comparison is impossible due to the difference of systems and majors, but please could you roughly share me the reputation and impression about KCL in order to comprehend this school.

If she is not one of those who has thrived during the pandemic, then I would suggest she skips and avoids attending Oxford, Cambridge and Imperial because studying is intense (i.e. pressure cooker environment) at those schools and they are shaped for certain types of motivated nerds, which she obviously is not.

There are other prestigious UK schools she can attend though and move at her own determined pace.

It also appears there is no clarity yet on the degree she wants, all you have indicated is that she is strong in Maths.

Here is a link to another post of mine that highlights the most prestigious UK universities for studying Maths and also for some other degrees:

Applying to Oxford, London School of Economics

My pleasure. Note I started off with general reputation because, unlike in the US, in the UK subject field reputation is not a widespread phenomena. Most people just tend to know and acknowledge general reputation in the UK because we really only have about 150 universities, of which only about 30 are seen as well-above the rest (i.e. the group of Elite plus respected universities). Unlike the US that has over 4,000 (of which about 1,400 offer four year degree) and with about 100 universities/colleges being well-above the rest. Which has led to subject rankings required for delineating amongst these ~100. The only few exception cases in the UK where some fields have a select group of universities being exceptional/in their own league are: Mathemetics: Cambridge, Oxford, Imperial and Warwick Economics: Cambridge, Oxford, LSE, UCL and Warwick Engineering: Cambridge, Imperial, Oxford and UCL Medicine and Public Health: Oxford, Imperial, Cambridge, UCL, KCL and Edinburgh Neurosci…

Applying to Oxford, London School of Economics

I mistakenly forgot to put Cambridge after LSE in “International Relations” above. And also forgot one more field where some universities are exceptional in: Sports Science & Physical Education: Loughborough, Birmingham, Bath and LJMU

Hopefully these links helps give a comprehensive insight in regards to UK universities.