Oxbridge

Oxford receives over 100 times more in donations and endowment income than Cardiff – and endowments make up more than five per cent of Oxford’s total income, compared to just 0.2 per cent at Cardiff

Oxford and Cambridge score 100 for learning experience in the QS World Rankings 2027 – Queen Mary scores just 24, less than a quarter

Oxford makes £198m more from research grants than from tuition fees – while LSE, despite ranking third for research quality, brings in the least research income of any Russell Group university

Newcastle, Sheffield and Manchester also rank in the bottom five, with ratios above 13

Cambridge topped the rankings with a maximum score of 208, while Liverpool recorded the lowest among Russell Group universities at 137, a gap of 71 points

Trinity College Cambridge holds more than 56 times the net assets of Clare Hall, despite both being colleges at the same university

The University of Oxford’s vice-chancellor has the largest total package at £666k, which is more than double that of the University of Glasgow’s VC

At the worst-affected Russell Group university, the deficit is almost 10 per cent of total annual income

At least 12 Russell Group vice-chancellors received pay rises last year while their universities cut hundreds of academic and support staff between them

Some unis need all the help they can get