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Again, I have to bang the drum on this. Outside of a very small handful of universities, there is no advantage in talking about "rankings". Most universities are as good and as bad as each other unless you can pin point a very specific reason why a particular unversity is especially suited to the degree you want to follow. Having a good "ranking" is not a good reason. It means you are falling for marketing hype and not thinking for yourself. If it is "to get better jobs" then I think you need solid evidence of that before you start throwing money at that university.

In the UK for example, we have Cambridge and Oxford. Outside that there is no significant difference between the next 100 universities. There is a quaintly amusing obsession about Russell Group universities over here but the reality is that graduates from almost any university over here will compare well regardless of where they graduated from. At the end of the day, Physics is Physics, Chemistry is Chemistry and Maths is Maths etc.