Universities in the UK: 3 of the best, photo, description

Education received at prestigious universities in the UK is highly rated in scientific, educational, cultural and literary circles and, in general, in society. One can recall many names of great people who, with their achievements, highly raised the authority of the universities of Great Britain: Swift, Carroll, Thatcher, Hawking – the list is endless. We have prepared an overview of the top three universities in the UK.

Oxford

Oxford is known in history as one of the first English-speaking universities, the exact opening date of which is difficult to establish. The first mention of the city was found in written monuments in 912, when there was a nunnery in its place. In 1117, the first university of Great Britain for the clergy was organized in it. Oxford is 90 km away. from London, it is now home to about 154,000 people, 30,000 of whom are students. The name of the city sounds very prosaic in translation into Russian – “bull ford”.

Notable Oxford faculty and alumni

The teaching staff consists of 4,000 highly educated, smartest scientists who have more than one academic degree, winners of prestigious awards and honorary titles that the UK is proud of. The Russian Society operates at the university, founded in the early 19th century by Oxford graduate Felix Yusupov in order to ensure closer ties between Russia and the prestigious university.

Outstanding personalities came out of the walls of Oxford, glorifying it with their brilliant creations in different eras. Everyone knows the author of the famous “Gulliver's Travels” – Jonathan Swift, a brilliant allegorical satirist who ridiculed the vices of English society in the 17th century.

Not inferior to him in a deep satirical image is the famous Oxford graduate – Oscar Wilde with the immortal “The Picture of Dorian Gray” about life's impasse, which leads to excessive human vanity and narcissism. Lewis Carroll, the author of Alice in Wonderland, was also a student at Oxford University.

Famous for their progressive power, the English kings Edward VII and Edward VIII were educated at Oxford.

World-famous prime ministers of England W. Gladstone, G. Wilson, Tony Blair, David Cameron, Margaret Thatcher are also graduates of the famous educational institution. Russia is proud that talented Russian writers and poets: V.A. Zhukovsky, I.S. Turgenev, I. Brodsky, K. Chukovsky, A. Akhmatova were awarded honorary academic degrees from Oxford.

Cambridge university

Cambridge can be called a rival of Oxford in terms of age and social and scientific significance. Established in 1209, the educational institution is an example of a high-class educational institution, saturated with the spirit of the Middle Ages, innovative progress and the preservation of purely English traditions.

Since the 13th century, the humanitarian, theological, medical, and law faculties have trained qualified specialists whose names are associated with the oldest university: Thomas More, Erasmus of Rotterdam, C. Darwin, I. Newton, E. Rutherford and other luminaries of science.

The territory of Cambridge is huge: in addition to a large number of educational buildings, there are 8 solid museums that invariably attract the attention of not only students, but also ordinary tourists. The beautiful botanical garden is another object of active visit by everyone who comes to Cambridge. The university is proud of its traditions and reveres them sacredly, so no one is surprised by students dressed in black robes and caps.

The university impresses with its scale: it has more than 150 faculties, departments, various scientific schools and associations, dozens of creative clubs, more than a hundred libraries. Cambridge can be figuratively called a huge forge of scientific and professional personnel, a bright center of spiritual, intellectual and aesthetic culture, a beacon of the collective mind.

Edinburgh University

It was founded in 1583 and is now, along with Oxford and Cambridge, an authoritative, popular university in many countries of the world, where thousands of applicants seek to enter. Given this fact, the university is actively opening branches of some faculties in other states, including Russia.

Notable faculty and alumni of the University of Edinburgh

The history of the university is connected with the names of the great scientists and inventors who gave the world a telephone, a TV set, a steam engine: with A. Bell, James Watt, John Bayle and others.

For some time the university was headed by the future British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, who noted the extraordinary talent of the Scots.

The graduates of the University of Edinburgh were the classics of world literature Walter Scott, Conan Doyle, Robert Stevenson, who glorified her name with “Harry Potter” JK Rowling. Well-known British politicians Gordon Brown and Robin Cook received excellent education here.

The pioneer of education at the University of Edinburgh from Russia was the son of Princess Ekaterina Dashkova, one of the most enlightened women of the 18th century, who led the Russian Academy of Sciences. Now Russian students also study here, among the many departments in the educational institution there is a department of the Russian language.

The academic basis of a modern university is made up of 3 large-scale colleges with a huge number of faculties in different areas. The university has research institutes and centers where every talented student or graduate can engage in scientific activities, according to the results of which the educational institution ranks 5th among all universities in the UK.

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