Sunday Times Good University Guide: Universities knocked off top spot

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00:00The Sunday Times long-awaited Good University Guide for 2026 is finally here,

00:06ranking more than 100 universities across the country on graduate employment prospects,

00:11teaching quality and more. This is often considered to be one of the country's most

00:15definitive university league tables, but the institutions that have come out on top have

00:20gone through quite the shake-up this year. Hello, my name's Amber Allett and I'm a journalist

00:24specialising in education. Here are a few of the latest guide's biggest surprises.

00:30For the first time in the guide's 32-year history, Oxford and Cambridge, some of England's

00:37oldest and most prestigious universities, have been nudged out of the top three. They've been

00:42ranked fourth equal this year. The university that rose the ranks and pushed them out was

00:47Durham University, up in the northeast. The Times editor says that it managed to climb two

00:52places into third overall this year, boosted by improvements in teaching quality and student

00:57experience. Last year, the London School of Economics and Political Science was named

01:03the most highly ranked university in the country for the first time ever. This year has seen

01:08that trend continue, with the capital's social sciences powerhouse taking out the top spot

01:12overall for a second year running. Finally, universities from across the UK's different countries are

01:19also especially well represented amongst the top schools this year. St Andrews in Scotland

01:24placed second overall, while Strathclyde, Glasgow, Aberdeen, Dundee and Edinburgh all made the

01:30top 30. So did Belfast, Queen's University as well as Wales, Cardiff University.

01:36While I'm on the internet, I'm at the top 30. So I have a family member of Canada, and I am

01:38where I have a family member of Canada, and I am with the pin in thecoins per couple of

01:40Canadians. I found that people will share that in terms of their children as well. And so I am

01:41the help one of their children being a native native international school, and I am a

01:43raised of three people with a lot of students being a native international school. But we

01:45are able to bring to a vast majority of the school that a large group of students

01:46who are really proud of their grandparents and kids in the past, who are really

01:48the best at the future, and what they are still enjoying. And so I guess what

01:48they should be for a perfect majority. But if they also want to be with the

01:51community as well, but we are easy to speak for them to try. So, if you remember what