We produced our own ranking of US universities based on factors like school selectivity, academic quality of the student body, and revealed preference data (such as cross-admit yields), plus some other “soft” factors. We sanity-checked this against existing school rankings and anecdotal impressions of people who have a lot of context on the US admissions process. We primarily used national rankings to determine the UK universities in our list, along with some anecdotal evidence about Imperial being the next-best choice (after Oxbridge) for a lot of STEM students.
How was the list of universities determined?
We produced our own ranking of US universities based on factors like school selectivity, academic quality of the student body, and revealed preference data (such as cross-admit yields), plus some other “soft” factors. We sanity-checked this against existing school rankings and anecdotal impressions of people who have a lot of context on the US admissions process. We primarily used national rankings to determine the UK universities in our list, along with some anecdotal evidence about Imperial being the next-best choice (after Oxbridge) for a lot of STEM students.