Ranked: Russell Group unis by student value for money – Oxford seventh, Cambridge misses top 20
Ulster University topped the rankings overall while 15 Russell Group universities, including Cambridge, Manchester and Durham failed to make StudentCrowd’s top 20 for value for money
Ranked: All 24 Russell Group unis by NSS student voice scores – Oxford lowest at 67.3 per cent
Sheffield leads the Russell Group at 84.6 per cent for student voice – while Oxford scores just 67.3 per cent, the lowest of any Russell Group university in the National Student Survey 2026
Ranked: Every Russell Group uni by QS arts and humanities 2026 – Oxford tops, Southampton last
Oxford scores 97.8 for arts and humanities in the QS 2026 rankings – Southampton scores just 69.6, a gap of 28.2 points between the highest and lowest Russell Group universities
Ranked: All 24 Russell Group universities by interest and finance costs – Oxford pays £36.8m
Oxford pays over five times more in interest and finance costs than Cambridge, despite both being old, wealthy universities
Ranked: All 59 Oxbridge undergrad colleges by private school intake – 5.4 to 50 per cent
Hughes Hall and Wolfson take nine times more private school students than Lucy Cavendish, the lowest of any Oxbridge college
Ranked: All 24 Russell Group unis by endowment income – Oxford at £154m, Cardiff at just £1.4m
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
Ranked: All 24 Russell Group unis by learning experience – Oxford scores four times Queen Mary
Oxford and Cambridge score 100 for learning experience in the QS World Rankings 2027 – Queen Mary scores just 24, less than a quarter
Cate Blanchett to become a visiting professor at Oxford University
Cate called it ‘an electrifying opportunity for me to be in direct, robust creative dialogue with the next generation of thinkers and creative Doers’
Ranked: All 24 Russell Group universities by research income – Oxford gets £801m, LSE just £41m
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