There is a plethora of university guides out there and no one guide has a monopoly on gauging accurately the relative merits of one university against another and one department against another. The Independent today publishes a survey based on the new version of the Good University Guide. Here are the rankings for Economics - at least they had the good sense to put Cambridge first! It brings back so many memories of three years at the Sidgewick site!

1 Cambridge 100.0
2 London School of Economics 97.1
3 University College London 94.8
4 Warwick 94.3
5 Oxford 93.8
6 Nottingham 90.7
7 Bristol 90.3
8 Durham 89.7
9 St Andrews 89.6
10 Bath 88.9
11 York 88.7
12 Birmingham 88.6
13 Exeter 88.5
14 Southampton 88.2
15 Lancaster 87.8
16 Edinburgh 87.8
17 Glasgow 87.2
18 SOAS 86.4
19 Essex 85.8
20 Sussex 85.8
21 East Anglia 85.5
22 Royal Holloway 85.3
23 Cardiff 85.0
24 Leeds 84.9
25 Loughborough 84.6
26 Surrey 84.3
27 Newcastle 84.3
28 Leicester 84.2
29 Keele 84.1
30 Aberdeen 83.6