| dconcerned, allow me to elucidate my point
1)you're look for a list of top 50 UK/US unis....if you look at it from a rankings point of view, nottingham/soas/etc. wont make it in, which you yourself duly pointed out
2)unless you want an equal number of US and UK unis (which imo means including some relatively less qualified UK unis in the list), nottingham/soas/etc. wont qualify either....the UK has 120+ unis, while the US has more than 3000, 14/120 (nottingham) is top 11% in the UK, while any top 50 US colleges would be the top 0.01% in the US....while this is by no means indicative of prestige and quality (becoz by this method oxbridge would be excluded, which is ludicrous), it does follow logically that there will be fewer UK unis in the list, because UK has less unis and by extension less top unis
3)while i agree with you that SOAS/Nottingham/etc. should and will be considered by some students and we should respect that, herein lies the contradiction....you are looking for a list of Top unis strictly, then we shouldnt include SOAS/Nottingham/etc., but if you are looking for a list of top unis that students should consider, different students consider different unis (i.e. a top student would only consider top-tier schools, while a good student would consider both top-tier and middle-tier, and a poor student considers only the middle-tier and lower-tier), essentially voiding the purpose of your generic list |