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At Surrey - in the Management School, the building in front of Turing's statue. I actually left to go to work at Harvard and then after that King's College London. After Harvard I really think those ranking are a joke. My brother-in-law is an international renown academic and he visited Surrey (my wife work there) and the then VC Chris Snowden asked Alan how he bacame a Professor at Yale as Alan didn't publish much. Alan gave him the best put down I have ever heard, "Well, Chris my Nobel Prize nomination helped a little bit". Chris like the institution is a little bit pompus. My old Dean at Kings used to call by its proper name, Battersea College of Technology.
Perhaps it's discipline specific to be honest as our faculty certainly merits it's lofty position just now having secured some huge prizes and exceptional funding of projects in the past few years, not to mention some of the things which have emerged from our Space Centre.

I've no doubt it's far from the perfect article as a complete University though - there are some missing disciplines, some strange subjects and an odd fascination with some departments publishing in open-source journals.

I certainly don't find it pompous but I don't get embroiled into the University politics

Incidentally, seeing as the football related aspect of this post has long since evaporated, I guess an admin can feel free to move this if appropriate