Sorry about the mistake i read the post again. 50000 was for whole american continent including south american and caribbean islands. But i wont shy away from accepting my mistake. but even if u take the accreditaed ones of about 4200 which is a significantly larger than british ones. I think for the UK with a handful of universites to be in there with 8 out of 50 is incredible which proves in general british universities are better. America have few very good univerisites amist of crap universities.