Oxford and Exeter universities are at the top of a rape culture league table compiled from more than 1,000 testimonies from students.
The Everyone s Invited website, which publishes accounts of sexual abuse and harassment, released the data yesterday to highlight the problem on campuses.
It said rape culture is endemic at universities and praised the courage of young women who had come forward to share their stories.
The website released a list of 17 universities mentioned in more than five testimonies, almost all of which were in the elite Russell Group.
The Everyone s Invited website, which publishes accounts of sexual abuse and harassment, released the data yesterday to highlight the problem on campuses (stock image)
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One student told ITV News how an assault hit her work, social life and mental health. But it took years for her university to take action against her abuser.
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