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