The Location Challenge.

    Referring back to last week, we've went through a couple of simple steps and already chosen 8 universities which rank within top 10 out of total 800 schools on the QS World University Rankings list. This week I'll show you even more details about these schools to offer more references which might greatly help while making choices. Before we start, I decided to cross out the two Swiss Universities due to the language problem. French and German was the official language in Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne and Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, respectfully. The purpose of the study trip do not include learning or improving European language proficiency, furthermore, it could be a serious problem if students went to those schools without taking any local language lessons in advance. By doing so, now we have only 6 options on our list, and ALL of them are located in English speaking country,  the United Kingdom. Allow me to remind you again what we have here in the list below.

Rank	University	Location of Main Campus
3	University of Cambridge	Cambridge, UK
4	University College London	London, UK
5	Imperial College London	London, UK
6	University of Oxford	Oxford, UK
17	University of Edinburgh	Edinburgh, UK
19	King's College London	London, UK

    Apparently, these schools are mostly at the same level, any admission letter from these schools could literally bring you on the top of the world. Therefore, we will come back later to discuss about the featuring departments of each . Let's first focus on the locations and do some analysis. From the list above, we have 4 different locations of main campus to decide, which are Cambridge, London, Oxford and Edinburgh. 

Transport	London	Cambridge	Oxford	Edinburgh
Airports	6	1 (Cambridge Airport)	1 (London Oxford Airport)	1 (Edinburgh Airport)
Bus Routes	More than 700	the Cambridgeshire Guided Busway	- 280 - 5 park and ride sites with bus links. - Oxford to London coach route.	Lothian Buses
Metro system	The London Underground, serves 270 stations.	N/A	N/A	Edinburgh Trams(scheduled to open by May 2014)
Railway Stations	- London Waterloo station. - The Euro Star.	Cambridge railway station.	Oxford railway station.	Waverley Station.
Source: Wikipedia

It's totally not surprising that the capital city London won this round while comparing with the other 3 components on the topic of transport convenience. With the charts above, hopefully you can make your own decision within 15 minutes! See you next week.