I feel british universities in general is better than american universities. I was going through the top 50 universities in the world where i found there were 26 american universities and 8 british universities. It may seem there are more american universities in top 50 but the realitiy is in america there are over 50 000 univeristies believe it or not . Compare that to britian where there is about 500 univerisity. Agree in america there are some very good univeristy but then there are numerous awful universities . Since the univerisities in britain is so less the rivalry between these university is fierce so there is a competition to maintain the standard with the rivals. If you take out random sample of univerisity from america only one out of 100 univeristy can be considered very good, where as in britian the number reduces to four or five.