Oxford tops list of UK's best performing universities

LONDON: Oxford has topped the list of best performing universities in the UK with the Cambridge bagging the second position, a study has said.

Oxford has retained its top position for the sixth consecutive year and is just five points ahead of the Cambridge university, the closest since 1993.

Other universities in the top ten list includes Imperial College, London School of Economics, St. Andrews, University College London, Warwick, Bristol, Durham and King's College London, The Times league table said.

Only St Andrews interrupts the hegemony of the "golden triangle" of Oxbridge and London this year.

Other universities celebrating substantial rises this year include Exeter, which enters the Top 20 for the first time, City University, which is up 17 places, the University of Arts London, and the new university of Bedfordshire, which is judged on the performance of its predecessor institutions, Luton University and the Bedford campus of De Montfort University.