Cambridge has been rated as providing the best law degree in the UK and the second best in the world. Only Harvard pips it.

QS has released its 2015 World University rankings. Three UK universities made the top ten (Cambridge, Oxford and the LSE) in a list that was dominated by the USA:

1.	Harvard
2.	Cambridge
3.	Oxford
4.	Yale
5.	New York University
6.	Stanford
7.	LSE
8.	University of Melbourne
9.	University of California, Berkeley
10.	Columbia University

QS says that it analysed 17.3 million research papers and over 100 million citations to get the results, and conducted surveys of more than 126,000 academics and graduate employers worldwide. So a lot of data has been crunched, although there are some glaring ommisions. Inexplicably, the undergraduate degrees offered by the big UK law schools are not included anywhere. So, despite Professor Provost President Savage's best efforts, it seems that the University of Tasmania has greater cachet than the University of Law.


And reputation is of course, to a large degree, subjective. A graduate recruiter at a top City firm would be unlikely automatically to place a candidate from Queen Mary University of London - 45th worldwide - above one from Exeter, Durham, Bristol, Manchester and Warwick that all ranked below it. Still, it's interesting reading. And The UK is, after the USA, the most strongly represented country in the top 50.