Why is Oxford having a hard time placing its students on the market? If the top UK uni isn’t fairing well, does this bode ill for the rest?
Oxford placements disappointing?
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Cambridge is the best uni in uk, especially when considering who produces the best academics... Oxford still produces loads of political leaders and global elites
Science Nobels by Alumni, through 2021
Among all universities,
Cambridge is #1 at 61
Harvard, 56
Columbia, 33
Berkeley, 27
MIT, 26
Caltech, 23
Chicago, 21
Oxford, 18
Yale, 15
Cornell, 13
CUNY, 12
Johns Hopkins, 12
Princeton, 12
Illinois, 11
Wisconsin, 11
NYU, 8
Penn, 8
Stanford, 8
Michigan, 7 -
The problem at Oxford has long been that the best students don't stay for the DPhil or join academia, but go to the City, and make money. Nuffield is basically dependent on foreign research students and prize fellows. I was at Nuffield for a decade in politics, and this problem was chronic, along with dead wood among official fellows.