For the academic year of 2024/2025, the University of Oxford was ranked as the best university in the world, with an overall score of 98.5 according the Times Higher Education. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University followed behind. A high number of the leading universities in the world are located in the United States, with the ETH Zürich in Switzerland the highest ranked neither in the United Kingdom nor the U.S.

With an average SAT score of 1545, the California Institute of Technology was the smartest college in the United States in 2020. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvey Mudd College, Washington University in St. Louis, and Harvard University rounded out the top five smartest colleges in the U.S.

Data on the top universities for Physical Sciences in 2025, including disciplines such as Chemistry, Geology, and Physics & Astronomy.

Data on the top universities for Law in 2025.

This dataset is about universities in the United Kingdom, featuring 5 columns: city, country, foundation year, ranking, and university. The preview is ordered by total students (descending).

This statistic shows a ranking of the leading 50 colleges in the United States, based on the SAT scores needed for admission in the 2012-2013 academic year. In 2012-2013, the SAT score based on the 25th percentile for admission to Harvard stood at 2120.

This dataset is about universities and is filtered where the country includes United Kingdom, featuring 3 columns: country, ranking, and university. The preview is ordered by total students (descending).

These data are gathered as part of the Summary of Annual Examination Results exercise. This exercise takes place between May and December of each year and collects information on the examination performance of post-primary pupils in Year12 and Year 14 in Northern Ireland.

The Performance League Table (PLT) ranks the relative performance of CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme participants against the three weighted metrics: Early Action Metric, Absolute Metric, and Growth Metric. Participants with the same weighted score are sorted alphabetically.

This dataset is about books and is filtered where the book subjects includes Universities and colleges-Ratings and rankings-Great Britain. It has 9 columns such as author, BNB id, book, book publisher, and book subjects. The data is ordered by publication date (descending).

The ICOSS (Impact of Competition on Secondary Schools) study, based in the Open University's Centre for Educational Policy and Management, is investigating the impact of competitive pressures on secondary schools in England. The Survey on School Competition, 1992-1997 is part of the study.
Secondary school headteachers from six local education authority (LEA) areas were surveyed on their perceptions of the degree of competition facing their school and its impact on pupil recruitment and school budgets since 1992, when national league tables of examination results were first published. The schools contacted comprised all grant-maintained (GM) and LEA maintained secondary schools (excepting special schools) in the six LEA areas.
LEAs were selected in order to include in the database a wide range of school types so as to provide an adequate basis for generalisation of results. The LEAs include county and metropolitan authorities to give urban and rural schools and a diversity of socio-economic backgrounds and school systems (i.e. a selective system and a concentration of GM schools in some of the LEA areas).
The survey was intended to give headteachers the opportunity to comment on the effects of educational policies which have had the aim of creating a more competitive climate and to contribute to the broader aims of the ICOSS study.
Further information about the ICOSS study may be found on the website:
http://soe.open.ac.uk/CEPAM/research/ICOSS/index.htm .

In the 2022/23 academic year, 30 percent of undergraduate students obtaining their degree were awarded a degree with first-class honors, the highest possible grade for UK graduates. Almost half of all students achieved an upper second or 2.1, with 20 percent obtaining a lower second or 2.2, and just four percent of graduates obtained a third, the lowest possible pass grade. The share of UK students graduating with a first-class degree has increased significantly in this time period, while the share of students obtaining a 2.2 has fallen the most in the same time period. GCSE and A-Level grades also on the rise Higher grades for the UK's main qualification for high school students, the general certificate of secondary education (GCSE), have also increased in recent years. In 1988 for example, approximately 8.4 percent of GCSE entries received the highest grade, compared with 22 percent in 2023. This is also the case to a lesser-extent for advanced level GCSE results (A-Levels), with the share of entries being awarded an A or A* increasing from 17.8 percent in 2000 to 25.4 percent in 2023. There is no consensus on if these improvements are due to increased ability, or to grade inflation. During the COVID-19 pandemic, however, grades in the UK were a lot higher than in other years. This was due to teacher and tutor assessments being giving a higher weighting than normal, with exams being postponed or cancelled completely. The UK's top universities Britain's oldest and most famous universities, Cambridge and Oxford, remained the two highest-ranked universities in the UK in 2024, with the London School of Economics finishing third. According to the ranking, the University of St Andrews was the top university outside the south of England, with Durham University being the highest-ranked university in the north of England. The largest university in terms of enrolled students was the mainly remote focused Open University, which had 151,840 students in 2021/22. Among universities that mainly taught on-campus, University College London had the most students enrolled, at 46,830.

SA Government preschool by category ranking. Category Ranking is a priority assigned to each preschool to give an indication of the degree of social disadvantage and geographical isolation a centre may have. There are three levels of ranking. Category 1 reflects the centres with the highest need and category 3 reflects those centres with the lowest need.

In the academic year of 2022/32, more than 154,000 Chinese students were studying in the United Kingdom. The number of Chinese students studying in British higher education institutions increased by more than 80 percent in the last decade. An attractive destination for Chinese students In recent years, the United Kingdom has overtaken the United States as the top choice among the destination countries for Chinese prospective students. The more affordable tuition fees in the country compared to destinations such as the United States and Australia, the shorter duration of the postgraduate programs, and the reputation of British universities as seen in international rankings have all contributed to the high popularity of the United Kingdom among Chinese students and employers. The diversification of international study destinations At the same time, destinations for Chinese students have become more diverse. The high academic and research performance of the United States in many sectors continues to make it a desirable destination for affluent Chinese students. For students from middle-class or less well-off backgrounds, studying in places such as Japan, Germany, and France are more practical options as these countries offer more affordable programs.