9. University of Cambridge
Admission rate: 21%
World ranking: 5
Ranking fifth on the global list of the world’s best schools, and ninth on our list of the easiest good colleges to get into, the University of Cambridge was founded in 1209.
The University is made out of Schools, Faculties, Departments and Colleges, where students can learn pretty much everything they want to, from anthropology to genetics, from economics to music, from criminology to zoology, from history to languages.
Notable alumni are Sir Francis Bacon, Charles Darwin, Rosalind Franklin, Sir Ian Wilmut, David Attenborough, Alan Turing, Stephen Hawking, W. M. Thackeray, Sylvia Plath, Oliver Cronwell, as well as several monarchs, including Charles, the Prince of Wales.