The 1994 Group is a coalition of smaller research-intensive universities founded to defend their interests after the larger research-intensive universities founded the Russell Group. They describe themselves as "seventeen internationally recognised universities in Britain, who share common aims, standards and values."
According to the 'Patterns 3' report by Universities UK, "The Russell Group and the 1994 Group share many features, but are distinguished chiefly by the fact that most members of the Russell Group have medical schools, and an emphasis on science and technology. Within the Russell Group a small number of institutions are outliers on the basis of the statistical information available, and if these were excluded from the analysis, the Russell Group and the 1994 Group would show very similar characteristics."
- St Andrews University
- University of Durham
- Lancaster University
- University of York
- University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST)
- University of Warwick
- University of Reading
- University of East Anglia
- University of Essex
- Birckbeck, University of London
- Goldsmiths College, University of London
- Royal Holloway, University of London
- London School of Economics and Political Science
- University of Surrey
- University of Bath
- University of Sussex
- University of Exeter