Oxford has replaced Cambridge as Britain's best university, according to The Guardian's authoritative annual guide to higher education in the UK.
The university rankings, compiled by the newspaper and Campus Pi, an applied research department at Brunel University, assess teaching quality, staff-student ratios and graduate job prospects. Oxford placed first in the overall rankings, and was top-ranked in the specific fields of anthropology, anatomy and physiology, biosciences, business studies, earth and marine sciences, economics, law, history and history of art, modern languages (other than French, German or Spanish), mathematics, philosophy, psychology, physics, politics, sociology, and theology. Oxford reclaimed the summit after being narrowly edged out by Cambridge last year.
