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* University of St Andrews:[[note]]Please don't be tempted to spell it ''St. Andrew's''; for some reason it's written without any punctuation.[[/note]] Located in the small town of St Andrews, Fife. It's technically collegiate like Oxbridge, but in reality the colleges are more notional (for example, saying you went to St. Mary's College is just a more impressive-sounding way of saying you studied Theology as an undergrad). A RunningJoke in the university is that nobody actually knows when it was founded.[[note]]It's complicated. There's evidence of teaching as early as 1410, but it wasn't officially founded until 1413 by Papal decree, but then UsefulNotes/ThePope in question is retrospectively considered illegitimate, although James I of Scotland ([[UsefulNotes/JamesVIAndI not to be confused]]) upheld the University charter following the healing of the Papal Schism.[[/note]] Just to be on the safe side, the University is sticking with 1413 -- possibly to avoid celebrating the 600th anniversary early. In any case, it's the oldest non-Oxbridge uni in the Anglosphere. The ''[[UsefulNotes/BritishNewspapers Guardian]]'' currently ranks it as the best university in the UK. Has one Regius chair. Significantly, the alma mater of [[UsefulNotes/TheBritishRoyalFamily the Prince and Princess of Wales]] since 2022.

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* University of St Andrews:[[note]]Please don't be tempted to spell it ''St. Andrew's''; for some reason it's written without any punctuation.[[/note]] Located in the small town of St Andrews, Fife. It's technically collegiate like Oxbridge, but in reality the colleges are more notional (for example, saying you went to St. Mary's College is just a more impressive-sounding way of saying you studied Theology as an undergrad). A RunningJoke in the university is that nobody actually knows when it was founded.[[note]]It's complicated. There's evidence of teaching as early as 1410, but it wasn't officially founded until 1413 by Papal decree, but then UsefulNotes/ThePope in question is retrospectively considered illegitimate, although James I of Scotland ([[UsefulNotes/JamesVIAndI not to be confused]]) upheld the University charter following the healing of the Papal Schism.[[/note]] Just to be on the safe side, the University is sticking with 1413 -- possibly to avoid celebrating the 600th anniversary early. In any case, it's the oldest non-Oxbridge uni in the Anglosphere. The ''[[UsefulNotes/BritishNewspapers Guardian]]'' currently ranks it as the best university in the UK. Has one Regius chair. Significantly, the alma mater of [[UsefulNotes/TheBritishRoyalFamily the Prince and Princess of Wales]] since 2022.2022 (it's where they met).
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** Goldsmiths College, London. One of the top arts schools in the UK and also excels in sociology.

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** Goldsmiths College, London. One of the top arts schools in the UK (most famously--or infamously--it counts most of the "Young British Artists" of the late 1980s-1990s as alumni), and also excels in sociology.

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