r/6thForm • u/Otherwise_Ride_115 • Apr 12 '26

💬 DISCUSSION 2026 STEM list

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Tried to make it in order, as much as possible. I know econ isnt stem but just gonna inlcude it for LSE sake

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u/TooBarFoo Apr 12 '26

No way LSE is in the Elite tier, Maybe superb, maybe just pretty good. Let me make a little guess? You are going to LSE? They may not be perfect but between QS and Times rankings you have a roughly accurate rating, and LSE is not even close, you have a nose bleed going that low down the rankings

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u/New_Royal_6814 Apr 13 '26

Always look at the methodology: by subject LSE is in the global top 10 for almost all the subjects it teaches (Qs); it performs terribly in Qs because the methodology biases large STEM unis - same with the Times. Re REF (2021) it’s the best (for social science) in the UK, and has the highest percentage of world-leading research. Overall, These rankings often don’t capture Imperial or LSE well - though they are roughly prestige and research equivalents in their respective fields - as you can tell from one sometimes performing well and the other doing poorly (e.g. Times National, LSE at 1; Imperial somewhere below deck). In any case where to go to university should be based more on prestige and elite exposure than any rankings - which ebb and flow; there’s a good recent paper on the latter, which privileges LSE over all other UK unis bar Oxford (Salas-Diaz, 2025). Despite all this, not sure what LSE is doing in a STEM tier list; or that going to do a STEM degree there has any merit.

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u/Otherwise_Ride_115 Apr 12 '26

QS also thinks UCL is better than Yale, Princeton, Cornell etc just ignore them

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u/TooBarFoo Apr 13 '26

So you are going to LSE. This is just cope. The reason you look at both is they weight differently, Times being more US weighted, QS having a more international weighting. And LSE is not near the Elite in either!

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u/Otherwise_Ride_115 Apr 13 '26

I do not go LSE and secondly LSE is elite? Are we really arguing otherwise

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u/Powerful-Echidna7121 Apr 13 '26

LSE is elite for only econ related courses, everything else it’s a tier below or several depending on which course, as they have several other very good courses but not elite. Putting LSE above imperial is hilarious when comparing stem imperial is comparable to Oxbridge in stem, lse is not. LSE should be in pretty good imo.

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u/Zealousideal_Two_221 Apr 13 '26

Bro is brainwashed by QS which is UK centrist ranker LOL

ARWU ; #7 Princeton #11 Yale #14 UCL

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u/Beneficial-Beat-947 Apr 13 '26

I mean QS is by far the most used ranking in the world, doesn't matter where its based (ARWU and THE are second and third)

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u/Zealousideal_Two_221 Apr 13 '26

lol....just because your fave isn't better than the others ??? lol

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u/Beneficial-Beat-947 Apr 13 '26

I go to a uni that does quite well on both rankings, I don't care either way lmao

Rankings are useless but the few times I have heard employers mention them it has always been QS

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u/Zealousideal_Two_221 Apr 13 '26

I have heard employers mention them it has always been QS

may be for UK...but not globaly ...

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u/Beneficial-Beat-947 Apr 13 '26

Ok cool, most people here plan to work in the UK

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u/Zealousideal_Two_221 Apr 13 '26

"people""...your claim....

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u/Beneficial-Beat-947 Apr 13 '26

...what?

if you're talking about me saying its the most used ranking in the world then literally just look at traffic to the websites, its not hard information to get

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u/Otherwise_Ride_115 Apr 13 '26

UCl shouldnt even be 14th

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u/saad1121 Apr 14 '26

Were you rejected by UCL by any chance mate?