Not everyone wants to go to a large research university that does well on a “world university ranking” nor is getting in to graduate school or getting a job after graduation predicated on such a ranking.
Responding to a query about “Quality of Undergrad Education” at a particular university with a ranking that is based on other factors does not answer the question posed.
The Times Higher Education rankings would be terrible thing to rely on to predict how American employers rank undergraduate universities, how american college counselors rank undergraduate universities or how the man on the street (Wall Street or Main Street) ranks universities. Rankings such Dartmouth 30+ ranking spots below the university of Minnesota is a credibility destroyer, at least from the perspective of using the table at least as a reliable guage of desirability from an undergraduate standpoint in the USA
With respect to graduate level education, graduate schools everywhere would find the concept of relying upon a newspaper ranking laughable
@lizzzar What exactly was poor about the information? Using THE as the sole metric to judge a university is poor. I used this same forum sometime last year to seek information as, even as a prospective UG applicant, I was weary of using one league table to judge a university on its reputation.
It still does not explain why you dug up all those old threads - some of which had not been active since mid-March. None of those threads would have appeared on the first page of the United Kingdom subforum so it’s likely that you specifically searched them up.
You claim to be an alumna/us of Oxford University, yet you do not impart your experience or wisdom to US students seeking to apply there. Instead, you spend your time on forums concerning St Andrews, Glasgow and Queen Mary. I think it is much more likely for you to have links to the latter two than Oxford.
In fact, I did go to Oxford, but if I had gone to Glasgow or Queen Mary, I would be perfectly happy. They are excellent universities. But I am glad I did not go to a university where students apparently think it acceptable to insult people for stating facts.
And I can’t tell anyone how to get into Oxford apart from apply, be genuinely keen on your subject and say why you like it (read widely apart from school assignments and textbooks) and do well on the interview. The interview is important and they want to know that you will be interesting to teach and can think independently, but obviously very bright people can get turned down and go elsewhere.