Top 200 Universities 2008

[floppybootstomp]

Here

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

[staffsMike]

#4 for me.

The bunch of liars said they were joint second with Cambridge and Yale.. I'll simply have to move

But I did my real degree somewhere in bottom 200 universites

[shadowmaster]

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

[staffsMike]

That seems very USA biased. Oxford 10th..

[shadowmaster]

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.

[TheAnimus]

i'd say if anything its a bit biased towards the western unis (from a western bloke, who went to a weston uni).

[stevencage7]

Wondering how they got those ranking, based on...?

[shadowmaster]

Wondering how they got those ranking, based on...?

The criteria used my the Times is this-

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

[Kumagoro]

Department based ranking is more useful.

[finlay666]

Not on the list

Not too bothered as my uni is pretty computer science/business oriented

[SiM]

Street rep is a lot more useful...

[staffsMike]

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.

[finlay666]

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 anything

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

[staffsMike]

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.

[shadowmaster]

Street rep is a lot more useful...

I hope that includes the quality of the ladies

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.

It sounds like the each college is in essence a mini university

[staffsMike]

It sounds like the each college is in essence a mini university

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 lol