剑桥大学不仅是英语世界第二古老的大学也是全世界最好的大学之一。剑桥大学的起源为一群牛津大学的学者，因与牛津市民发生冲突而移居至剑桥。剑桥与牛津这两所在中世纪建立的英国大学，在校务运作、学术声望、社会地位等多方面都非常相似，经常合称为“牛剑”。

剑桥大学是一个由成员学院 (College)、学术学院 (School)、专业学院 (Faculty)、与学系 (Department) 组成的学院联邦制学校。由31所成员学院、超过150个学系、及其它附属机构组成。

伦敦帝国理工学院全称帝国科学、工程及医学院（Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine），是一所位于英国伦敦的公立研究型大学。学院本为伦敦大学联邦中的一员，后在2007年7月9日其百周年纪念日正式宣布独立，并由数个机构合并而成：圣玛丽医院医学院（1988年）、国家心肺研究中心（1995年）及查林与威斯敏斯特医学院（1997年）。其商学院后于2003年成立。

帝国学院专注于医学、理工、商学的教研，并为全英最难入读的学府之一。该校校友包括众多曾在有关领域作出巨大贡献的科学家及数名政治家，截止2018年10月，伦敦帝国学院的校友、教授及研究人员中，共有20位诺贝尔奖得主、3位菲尔兹奖得主、1位图灵奖得主。

杜伦大学是一所坐落于英格兰东北部杜伦市的学院制研究型大学，同时它也是英格兰第三古老的大学。为英国最顶尖的大学之一。其于1832年通过国会法案正式成立，并于1837年被授予皇家宪章。不过，杜伦大学的教学与科研历史却可以追溯到1072年，属于英格兰最早开设的一批大学，是仅次于牛津大学和剑桥大学的英格兰第三古老的大学。 杜伦大学多年来培育的人才于全球各领域作出不同贡献，包括：科学家、经济学家、成功商界人士、奥运金牌运动员、英国以及其他国家的领导人等。 杜伦大学被普遍认为是最具声望和优秀英国大学之一。

圣安德鲁斯大学是一所知名的公立研究型大学，该学校坐落于苏格兰法夫并且是英语世界第三古老的大学。

兰卡斯特大学不只是在英国大学中名列前茅，在全球学术机构排名中也稳居前1%。

牛津大学是英语世界最古老的大学，同时也是全世界现存第二古老的大学。

London Metropolitan University, commonly known as London Met, is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom. It was established on 1 August 2002 by the amalgamation of the University of North London and London Guildhall University. The University has campuses in the City of London and in the London Borough of Islington, with a museum, as well as archives and libraries.

University Campus Suffolk (UCS) is an educational institution located in the English county of Suffolk. UCS is a collaboration between the University of Essex and the University of East Anglia which sponsor its formation and validate its degrees. UCS accepted its first students in September 2007. Until then Suffolk was one of only four counties in England which did not have a University campus. 
UCS operates at six sites with its central hub in Ipswich. Other sites are centred on pre-existing Higher Education centres in Ipswich, Lowestoft,Bury St. Edmunds, and Great Yarmouth in Norfolk. 
UCS operates two academic faculties and in 2014 had around 5,200 students. Some 30% of the student body are classed as mature students and 68% of UCS students are female.

Glyndŵr University is a British university with campuses at Wrexham, Northop and St Asaph in north-east Wales and London. It offers both undergraduate and postgraduate degrees, as well as professional courses. The University has approximately 9,000 students.
The University is named after the medieval Welsh prince Owain Glyndŵr, who first suggested the establishment of universities throughout Wales in the early 15th century.
Glyndŵr University runs 150 programmes, offering foundation, HND/Cs, honours and master's degrees and doctorates over a broad variety of qualifications. In addition to professional courses such as nursing and social work, Glyndŵr University offers a range of postgraduate and undergraduate qualifications in Art & Design, Engineering, Science, Humanities, Health and Social Care, Criminology and Criminal Justice, Sports Sciences, Computing and Communication Technology, Music technology and Business. Computing is arguably the most successful department at the university. It has been ranked 64 in the UK by the Good University Guide 2014.

The University of Greenwich is a British university with campuses in south-east London and north Kent. These include the Greenwich Campus, located in the grounds of the Old Royal Naval College in the Royal Borough of Greenwich, London, England. It is the largest university in London by student numbers and the greenest in the UK as assessed by The People & Planet Green League.
The University is constantly ranked #1 in terms of student satisfaction across all 20 listed universities in London - with it topping lists of 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013 consecutively. It hasn't left the top five since its entry in 2010.
The University’s wide range of subjects include architecture, business, computing, education, engineering, humanities, natural sciences, pharmacy and social sciences. It has a strong research focus and well-established links to the scientific community.