You get what you pay for though. As with a lot of things, universities in the UK rank highly but I would say - as someone that went to oxbridge - that they are

You get what you pay for though. As with a lot of things, universities in the UK rank highly but I would say - as someone that went to oxbridge - that they are nowhere near the quality of American universities. Smart people attend, the smartest in europe by a wide margin, but still lag behind.