The University of St Andrews was Scotland’s first university and only the third to be founded in the English-speaking world. It has a prestigious international reputation, and attracts students from all over the world — just under half of all students come from outside Scotland. The university generally features within the Top 5 of UK university rankings, and its most famous alumni include Prince William Duke of Cambridge and Catherine Duchess of Cambridge.
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Within the 2021 Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide, St Andrews features in the Top 10 for the following subjects: Business Studies (#1), Politics (#1), Philosophy (#1), English (#2), History of Art, Architecture and Design (#2), Physics and Astronomy (#2), History (#2), Mathematics (#3), Biological Sciences (#3), Classics and Ancient History (#3), Middle Eastern and African Studies (#3), Psychology (#3), Theology (#3), Anatomy and Physiology (#4), Geography and Environmental Science (#4), Computer Science (#4), Chemistry (#5), Economics (#7) and Geology (#6).
The Times Higher Education World subject rankings place St Andrews in the Top 100 globally for Arts and Humanities.
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