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Reputation, Rankings and the Russell Group: What Makes an Excellent University?

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This chapter focuses on one of the central tenets of student mobility—the quest for an excellent degree. It seeks to analyse how students conceptualise reputation in the face of complex and multiple league tables which often prioritise older, redbrick and Russell Group universities. It reflects on how reputation is often viewed rather more simplistically and whilst certain universities are considered the best (notably Oxbridge and a select few London universities), students tended to view the UK’s offering as superior on the whole. This chapter therefore re-evaluates our understanding of higher education prestige from an international student perspective.

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Beech, S.E. (2019). Reputation, Rankings and the Russell Group: What Makes an Excellent University?. In: The Geographies of International Student Mobility. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-7442-5_5

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