一下是英国大学按照泰晤士教育增刊的世界排名所进行的排列，可以从客观查看英国大学在世界的位置：

世界排名
RANKING		 大学名称
UNIVERSITY
4 University of Oxford
6 University of Cambridge
8 Imperial College London
17 University College London
36 University of Edinburgh
47 London School of Economics and Political Science
48 University of Manchester
56 King’s College London
66 University of Bristol
83 Durham University
85 University of St Andrews
99 University of Sussex
101 University of Sheffield
102 University of Glasgow
107 Royal Holloway, University of London
121 University of York
127 Queen Mary, University of London
127 University of Southampton
131 Lancaster University
133 University of Leeds
140 University of Nottingham
145 University of East Anglia
146 Newcastle University
148 University of Birmingham
149 Birkbeck, University of London
151 University of Aberdeen
156 University of Exeter
157 University of Warwick
164 University of Reading
176 University of Dundee
181 University of Liverpool
197 University of Leicester
201-225 Cardiff University
201-225 University of Essex
251-275 Bangor University
251-275 University of Bath
251-275 Brunel University
251-275 Queen’s University Belfast
276-300 Aberystwyth University
301-350 University of Hertfordshire
301-350 University of Hull
301-350 Keele University
301-350 Plymouth University
301-350 University of Stirling
301-350 University of Surrey
351-400 Aston University
351-400 Heriot-Watt University
351-400 University of Kent
351-400 Liverpool John Moores University
351-400 Loughborough University
351-400 University of Strathclyde
351-400 Swansea University