You can learn which places have the best overall rankings from things like the Times and Guardian university rankings, plus the research assessment exercise rankings. These are all easy to find using a search engine. I did a quick check myself, and these are almost all top 20 schools.

If you find that there are many places with similar rankings, then go to a few of them on visit days and decide where you would like to live for three years, and where you would feel most comfortable. Also, they may have different specialties which don’t affect their overall rankings, but might affect which one you’d like to attend.

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