A University Challenge Ranking
Many football fans have a complex system of which team to support in any given match, based on a wide variety of factors that may appear arbitrary and inpenetrable to the outsider, but internally to them makes complete sense. I have a similar system for determining which team to support in University Challenge.
This entirely serious in every way and not at at all arbitrary ranking is as follows:
– Christ’s College, Cambridge
– Emmanuel College, Cambridge
– Bath Spa University
– Newnham College, Cambridge or Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
– Any other Cambridge college not otherwise named here
– Merton College, Oxford
– Any other Oxford college
– University of Hertfordshire
– University of Middlesex
– Imperial College, London
– Sheffield Hallam University, Oxford Brookes University
– University of Cardiff
– Glasgow School of Art, University of St Andrews, Nottingham Trent University
– Any other university
– SOAS