Editing South East England (section)

===Universities===
[[File:Christ Church College.JPG|thumb|right|[[Tom Tower]] of [[Christ Church, Oxford]]; in 1920, the University of Oxford was the first in the UK to award degrees to women.]]
{{See also|Rankings of universities in the United Kingdom|Golden triangle (universities)|SES (universities)}}
The best known university in the region is the [[University of Oxford]], famous for its academic achievements, and also for its ornate [[Colleges of the University of Oxford|colleges]] and its rowing crews on the Thames. It was ranked the fourth best university in the world by the Times Higher Education Supplement in 2013.<ref>{{cite web |title=World's top 100 universities 2013 |website=[[TheGuardian.com]] |date=5 March 2013 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2013/mar/05/world-top-100-universities-reputation-rankings-times-higher-education |access-date=16 December 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170311044850/https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2013/mar/05/world-top-100-universities-reputation-rankings-times-higher-education |archive-date=11 March 2017 |url-status=live}}</ref>

Other universities include:
*[[University of Brighton]], Brighton and Eastbourne
*[[University of Buckingham]], Buckingham
*[[Buckinghamshire New University]], High Wycombe, Aylesbury, Uxbridge and Great Missenden
*[[Canterbury Christ Church University]], Canterbury, Medway towns and Tunbridge Wells
*[[University of Chichester]], Chichester and Bognor Regis
*[[University of Kent]], Canterbury
*[[The University of Law]], Guildford (as well as eight other UK campuses outside South East England)
*[[University of Reading]], Reading, Henley-on-Thames
*The [[Open University]], Milton Keynes
*[[Oxford Brookes University]], Oxford
*[[University of Portsmouth]], Portsmouth
*[[Royal Holloway, University of London]], Egham
*[[Solent University]], Southampton
*[[University of Southampton]], Southampton
*[[University of Surrey]], Guildford
*[[University of Sussex]], Brighton
*[[University of Winchester]], Winchester

By total [[HEFCE]] funding, the biggest university is the Open University, followed by Oxford University.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.hefce.ac.uk/pubs/hefce/2009/09_42/ |title=Recurrent grants for 2009-10, then see Table 1 |publisher=HEFCE |access-date=1 June 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101109122425/http://www.hefce.ac.uk/pubs/hefce/2009/09_42/ |archive-date=9 November 2010 |url-status=live}}</ref> The Open and Oxford each receive around three times as much funding as any other university in the region, and Oxford receives the largest research grant in England (as of 2009). The University of Southampton gets the third largest amount of funding, with the next largest research grant, one of the largest in England. Other universities with a large research grant are Reading, Sussex and Surrey. Oxford gets twice as much total income (around £700&nbsp;million) as the next largest, Southampton. Surrey and Reading get the next largest total income.

Oxford and Southampton have the largest numbers of students, followed by Brighton. Of total students in the region, around 45% are from the region and 35% from other regions. Of full-time first degree students in the region, over 35% are from the region, 15% are from London, and 10% each are from the East of England and the South-West; in total, around 70% are from the south of England. Very few are from the North-East or Scotland. Around 35% of the region's native students stay in the region, with 15% going to London and over 10% going to the South-West. In general, for other regions of the UK, the South-East's students are more prepared to study in other regions than those regions' students are prepared to study in the South-East. Once they graduate, over 50% stay in the South-East, with 25% going to London, around 5% going to the East of England, and around 10% going to the South-West; around 90% stay in the south of England.