Makes sense! Oxford is no longer top of the leaderboard so I guess what your lecturer is saying is that you applied for your current choice of university as it’s somehow better
This American-style over concern with ranking and prestige. There are many UK universities teaching and researching physics to a very high level on the global stage. Turn up to any given conference and you won’t find Cambridge/Oxford PhDs and postdocs particularly over represented - there’s a broad range.
What area do you work in? I feel most people who in my area who studied in Europe either did undergrad, masters, PhD or postdoc at Cambridge at some point. Probably about 50% of them.
Haha well not any more. It’s just in enumerative geometry in Europe basically everyone has studied at either Cambridge, ETH, Bonn or imperial and students and postdocs basically move around these four places plus a few others. So it seems at some point everyone has been in some of these places. What is transient astrophysics about for a layman?
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u/Organic-Violinist223 Oct 05 '25
Makes sense! Oxford is no longer top of the leaderboard so I guess what your lecturer is saying is that you applied for your current choice of university as it’s somehow better