In response to the question on good Fashion Universities...obvious ones are Central St. Martins and London College of Fashion. Brighton University also seems to have produced a lot of well known fashion designers as well...some other ones which I believe to be good [as I have friends who study there + they place a lot of emphasis on hiring teachers who are well connected within the industry] are Istituto Marangoni (who have campuses in London, Paris and Milan) and Parsons: The New School For Design (who have campuses in Paris and New York).

ZJ, London,

It's rubbish that the Open University is the best in the world or even in this country. All sorts of people sign up for its courses and the tutors are pressurized into passing them regardless of their actual standard. If they don't pass , they can give malicious feedback - and just not sign up for another course! The OU motto is "pleasing the customer". It's all about money, so standards have to be sacrificed. That is not true education.
The reason people don't get A-levels is not that they haven't been to a private school, it's because they are too lazy to master basic literacy, to read or to follow a disciplined course of study.

Mariana, Oxford, England

The Open University is the best university in THE WORLD!

For every 6 A-Level private school yuppie, there is about 10,000 geniuses in the UK and 100,000,000 geniuses in Eastern Europe, India, China etc who could match them exam for exam and never got the chance. It's all about opportunity.

Finally friends, American sycophants, private school morons, and state school paupers in debt remember Zen wisdom:

A master received a university professor who came to inquire about wisdom, philosophy and the life of contemplation.

The master served tea. He poured his visitor's cup full, and then kept pouring.

The professor watched the overflowing cup until he no longer could restrain himself. "It's full. No more will go in!".

"Like this cup," the master said, "your are full of your own opinions and speculations. How can I show you anything unless you first empty your cup?".

It's not what you know, it's who you know, and if you don't know "who" then you better know "you" and "what".

Winston Fahrenheit, Southampton, England

The best university education is the one with the least debt at the end of it.

Rick, Ham,

The very best university is the University of Life.

Kevin Murphy, Birmingham, United Kingdom

I can't believe the lack of grammar being displayed on this page, for prospective candidates and accepted students alike.
Surely they still teach, a sentence begins with a capital letter ?
Don't give me some old guff about the texting generation . It's just being lazy.

Nick Dixon, Sutton Coldfield, England

for archaeology, try the institute of archaelology, university college, london.

anne, hong kong,

Uni of Mancheter or Uni of Nottingham. I ned to pick one as my insurance place but I can't decide! They both sound excellent and are great for my course.
Any help?

Robyn O'Grady, Merseyside,

The Courtauld Institue is reputably THE place to read History of Art - on a par with Cambridge; and yet neither the Institute nor the subject appear in the Guide. Please explain.

Julia Kett, cheltenham, England

Beth, Plymouth: Try Oxford

elina, abingdon, uk

I want to become an archaeologist, since I was 7 in fact. The only problem is that I can't find a good college or university to go to, CAN ANYONE HELP ME?!?!?

Beth, Portsmouth, England

i am in acca student, in part 3
i am trying to find a university who would take me for a masters degree, so far i have managed to find only one, uni of birhmingham...can anyone help me out?
masters in international business, business studies...or other related subjects

sadia habiby, Lahore,

i can't find anything on which are the best art schools! apart from bristol, all the ones that do art were lower than 30th. how can i find out if my current choices are any good if none of the tables will let me clearly compare them? when i type any school of art into the search bar they cant' find them!

Abi, Ipswich, United Kingdom

why is it so difficlt to find information about university rankings in terms of subjects, specifically advertising??

anant chander, Manchester, united kingdom

may i know which uni is best for law***
i mean for the law degree + chambering if possible

crystal, KL, m'sia

which uni is best for pharmacy except "the school of pharmacy?

nick, melksham,

Manchester Metropiltan University is top for inclusiveness and standard of teacher training.

MK Chui, Manchester, England

which top 10 universities is the best for international students? and which universites is good at teaching engineering? The tables over there are very useful.

Thet Naing Tun, yangon, Myanmar

i can't seem to find any tables which refer to 'top art universities'
it would be good if i could find one.

Vinnie, London,

I like Universities.

Sam, Norwich, Norfolk

what are the top fashion universities?

aky, cambridge, Uk

I am unfamiliar with the ranking system and there seems to be no explanation given on how these selections were made. Moreover I would like to know what "Top for Male Students" and "Top for Ethinic Minorities" implies.

Tonya, Ottawa, Canada

The information is not conflicting, because the scores are not calculated in the same way. Most of these values are absolute, whereas the full league table gives scores relative to the number of students, and possibly other factors. Thus Manchester spends more on facilities than most other universities, purely because it is bigger.

Rufus T. Firefly, Adis Ababa, Abyssinia

The information on these pages is quite conflicting. For example, the above tables rank oxford, cambridge, manchester and nottingham as the top four for spending on 'facilities'. However, the full league table ranks the expenditure on 'academic services and student and staff facilities' as: 1. Imperial College 2. Oxford 3. Cambridge 4. Bedfordshire. A look at the top tens produces further discrepancies. The above table is for 'first time full degree students' while the full table is for 'total number of full time students' but despite this there still appears to be major inconsistencies with the presetation of info. The diference between 'facilities' and 'academic services and facilities'. The point is that statistics can be deployed in vary misleading ways. If this is true of one category in the full table, then surely there are many other such interpretations of infomation, misleading future students.

Andrew, Edinburgh,

I'd be interested to have an explanation of how the value of research is calculated. It appears a little confusing. In the Accounting & Finance subject tables for example Exeter is placed in 22nd place and yet seemingly has stronger scores than 21st and 20th place. Is a 5D research assessment considered to be weaker than a 4A or 4B?

J. Anderson, London,

In addition to having omitted most of the Biomedical subjects from your subject listings, many subjects within the Humanities such as Archaeology, Art History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Theology are also missing, when they used to be included. Also missing are Architecture, Physiotherapy and Zoology. Why are these no longer included?

Rebecca, Nottingham, UK

While there's a lot of silliness with league tables, these are patently silly. By using the number, your university with most ‘x’ is going to be populated mainly by the biggest universities – ie those over 30000 students. So Leeds, and the two bigger Manchester Universities have most men and women.

Proportions can be much more telling – students would really like to know whether University A has 75% or 80% women, or 75% or 80% men.

Mike, Headington, UK

Could you please let me know how Biomedical subjects such as Pharmacology, Biochemistry, Anatomy, Physiology, Biomedical Science are catagorised as these do not appear in your 32 subject listing.

helen hargreaves, London, UK