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My twin daughters are currently at Bristol and Cardiff Uni's which come in at 32 and 133 respectively, which ain't too bad.
Is yours in there?
And I'm not having it that Harvard and Yale are better than Cambridge and Oxford, no :O_o1:
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My twin daughters are currently at Bristol and Cardiff Uni's which come in at 32 and 133 respectively, which ain't too bad.
Is yours in there?
And I'm not having it that Harvard and Yale are better than Cambridge and Oxford, no :O_o1:
#4 for me.
The bunch of liars said they were joint second with Cambridge and Yale.. I'll simply have to move :laugh:
But I did my real degree somewhere in bottom 200 universites :D
Number 7 for me, don't know why those nerds at Imperial are higher!!!!
However I've been 'told' that these rankings are more accurate.
http://www.arwu.org/rank2008/en2008.htm
That seems very USA biased. Oxford 10th..
Yeah thats what I noticed at first but their ranking methodology seems pretty solid. It seems to be the most objective.Quote:
Originally Posted by staffsMike
i'd say if anything its a bit biased towards the western unis (from a western bloke, who went to a weston uni).
Wondering how they got those ranking, based on...?
The criteria used my the Times is this-Quote:
Originally Posted by stevencage7
http://www.topuniversities.com/world...mple_overview/
For the other one its this
http://www.arwu.org/rank2008/ARWU200...dology(EN).htm
The guardian also have their rankings and like the others they also have their own criteria
Department based ranking is more useful.
Not on the list
Not too bothered as my uni is pretty computer science/business oriented
Street rep is a lot more useful...
Well having been to a pleb uni and now Oxford.. I'd take the pleb uni everytime :)
The teaching is better at Oxford but the environment was more..human elsewhere.
I love the fact that I often get emails from my tutors with info about news related to my course, offer up useful things like presentations I might like to go to, and I can easily chat to at any point if I need to about anythingQuote:
Originally Posted by staffsMike
Teaching is a lot better when all the students are known by name, and we know we can ask anything, a relaxed atmosphere is a lot better for teaching than a formal one IMO
Actually my Oxford Lecturers are more like what you describe than my Stafford one's were. In fact, they were quite closed off for the most part, but I couldn't care less at the time lol
The things I really don't like is stuff like Matriculation, Cheese and Wine, Formal Dinners and all the college nonsense which I am not getting involved with lol.
For those of you who don't know (as I didn't until I got there..) you have to be part of one of the 40 or so colleges and that is your union bar etc.. there is little interaction with people outside of your college if they are not on your course. Very strange.
I hope that includes the quality of the ladies :naughty:Quote:
Originally Posted by SiM
It sounds like the each college is in essence a mini universityQuote:
Originally Posted by staffsMike
Essentially yeah. I'm barely ever there though and I've only been to my college once. Not interested since I'm not living in Oxford lolQuote:
Originally Posted by shadowmaster
At warwick as a fresher this year, "69 dudes!" and for a 40 year old place, that's good going in my opinion.
But.. this is all research based i presume, as it goes, i think Warwick is a pretty good institution - easily on par with Bristol, and certainly for maths it's up there with ICL and oxbridge. But as said, these primarily go with things like "number of reports published in well known journals" rather than stuff that actually makes a difference to who goes there. Undergrads shouldn't pay it much heed, the timesonline ranking is a more appropriate style.
Hell yeh, if i'd had the a-levels to get into oxbridge, i'd have an extra 20k on my basic at least.Quote:
Originally Posted by SiM
As it stands they can keep bumping my basic slowly and topping it up with bonus, which helps keep me trapped.
If it been from a better uni, my starting salary would of been about 15-20k higher.
Fact of the matter is that i, like most people don't fall back on my degree much at work, so its all rather irelivent. But its all about the street rep.
Looks like the rankings have gone up for King's this year...*nice* :DCode:22 KING'S College London United Kingdom
Bristol's ace apart from the people whose entire wardrobe is from Jack Wills.