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Sagamite:
Here, mate:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Alumni_by_university_or_college_in_England
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Alumni_by_university_or_college_in_London
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Alumni_by_university_or_college_in_Scotland
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Alumni_by_university_or_college_in_Wales
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Alumni_by_university_or_college_in_Northern_Ireland


For Oxbridge, remember you will also have to add the alumni list from the individual colleges to the ones entered for the university as a whole:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Alumni_of_the_University_of_Oxford_by_college
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Alumni_of_the_University_of_Cambridge_by_college



The numbers are different because people keep on adding profiles everyday.

Even the numbers I put in, I gathered a few months before I could be bothered to put them up. I could not be bothered to update before I put them up because I knew the numbers would change the next few days but I also knew the changes are unlikely to change the positions.

It is an idea of the positions that mattered to my point, not the exact numbers of alumni.

Looking at current figures (without me adjusting the previous ranks):

Rank. University (Number of alumni entries on Wikipedia)
1. Oxford (11679+)
2. Cambridge (9500+)
3. Edinburgh (2762)
4. KCL (1403)
5. LSE (1318)
6. UCL (1182)
7. Glasgow (947)
8. Durham (820)
9. Birmingham (761)
10. Aberdeen (558)
11. Manchester (567)
12. St Andrews (576)
13. Bristol (491)
14. East Anglia (485)
15. Leeds (443)
16. Imperial (416)
17. Queen's University Belfast (343)
18. Sussex (352)
19. Loughborough (322)
=20. Liverpool (298)
=20. Nottingham (298)


If you were to change the rank based on recent entries, St Andrews would move up to 10th. Aberdeen down to 12th.

Queen's University Belfast will interchange with Sussex at 17th and 18th.

And Nottingham will join the Top 20 by being joint 20th position with Liverpool.

Basically, not drastic changes from what I put up.

As I said in the post you quoted: "...[new entries] is more likely to have an impact [i.e. positional changes] outside the Top 20."

Thanks sagamite, very interesting how fast the numbers can change.

Have you seen this threadhttp://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/showthread.php?t=4057423 on TSR? The Golden Triangle and Edinburgh do very well again - would be nice to hear your thoughts on why those unis are so popular.

https://41.media.tumblr.com/a532b9964861504373fd457f202cfec1/tumblr_o6lkqw1TJj1tt27vpo1_1280.png

Sagamite:
Another alternative (but crude) way to look at how successful alumni of a university has been is a simple check of the number of alumni they have with entries on wikipedia.

These shows both alumni that are dead and alive.

Rank. University (Number of alumni entries on Wikipedia)
1. Oxford (11679+)
2. Cambridge (9500+)
3. Edinburgh (2275)
4. KCL (1269)
5. LSE (1144)
6. UCL (1079)
7. Glasgow (839)
8. Durham (723)
9. Birmingham (604)
10. Aberdeen (507)
11. Manchester (496)
12. St Andrews (457)
13. Bristol (434)
14. East Anglia (441)
15. Leeds (381)
16. Imperial (376)
17. Queen's University Belfast (319)
18. Sussex (308)
19. Loughborough (294)
20. Liverpool (257)

Obviously this is crude and consideration should be given for:

Year of establishment - Older universities have an advantage of potentially more alumni entries.
Size - Larger universities have an advantage of potentially more entries as they have more alumni.
Relevance - Not every entry is because of positive/academic achievement, e.g. Oxford's spies or UCL's underwear bomber.
Entry Diligence - Some universities just have more contributors diligent enough to make entries for their alumni. Although this is more likely to have an impact outside the Top 20.

All said, this also gives a bit of an insight on how prestigious historically universities have been.

Taking all these into consideration, looking at an example, considering LSE is younger and far smaller institution than Edinburgh and KCL, its volume of entry being that close to theirs is very impressive and more significant.

Hey Sagamite, where are your numbers from? I looked at the wikipedia pages and the numbers are different (and are off by quite a lot for some of them).