Which are the differences between the UK, US and France?

Universities in France or Universities in the UK?

• Hello, I would like to ask if any of you know about facilities for Physics in French universities? Are the facilities as good as in the UK? what about the quality of teaching? Is there a big difference? I know I would have to study in French obviously, but other than that, could you tell me the main differences, advantages and disadvantages of studying in France or the UK? Thanks in advance

• Answer:

  No they are nowhere near as good in France. I don't study Physics but I have a friends who speaks French and German and he was looking to study Physics either on the continent or at home (UK) and I can confidently say that European university in terms of research are years behind British and American ones. Heres a list of the best university’s in the world when it comes to Physics (I'll link the site I got the list from below), I'll stop when I get to a French university: 1 University of Cambridge 2 Harvard University 3 University of Oxford 4 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) 5 University of California, Berkeley (UCB) 7 6 Stanford University 7 California Institute of Technology (Caltech) 8 Imperial College London 9 Princeton University 10 ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) 11 The University of Tokyo 12 University of Chicago 13 University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) 14 The University of Melbourne 15 Columbia University 16= Cornell University 16= École Normale Supérieure, Paris http://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/world-university-rankings/2011/subject-rankings/natural-sciences/physics