Originally Posted by NorthernBoy

His use of the TV show name "Are you smarter than a fifth grader", as opposed to "Are you smarter than a ten year old" makes me suspect that you may be right in your assumption that he is a US citizen (do you see that RussT, I altered my thoughts based on evidence. Any chance you'll one day do that?). In that case, suggesting that he travels to, and lives in the UK to learn physics at Oxford is not very sensible.

Can someone else please recommend to RussT where in the US he would be best served in terms of getting a good physics degree? Unfortunately all of my US friends did silly soft subjects in Ivy League schools, so I don't know which of your universities is best in a real subject (is my anti-arts bias showing yet?)