Need help : best University in Politcal Economics

Hi!

First and foremost, you've picked some really good universities there, so I don't think you need to have any worries about the calibre of institutions.

Some specific comments:

KCL - you may benefit from being in London if you're looking to network.

Manchester - they have a huge department in terms of staff and there's a lot of faculty co-operation within the social sciences so that might be useful if you want to take an unusual combination of modules.

Exeter - beautiful university although quite remote so if you're there for a year you may find that it doesn't offer you the opportunity to do much beyond study.

Bristol - great University and great city although I wouldn't specifically peg their department for political economy (which is why it's a joint masters, presumably).

St Andrews - awesome department for IR (with good name recognition).

Durham - well known university, less well established department

Warwick - well known, great department, good business links - but only a PG Dip?

A key issue is to look at the module descriptors. I found my undergrad and MA degrees at Birmingham in Politics to be very different. This might be more important than the actual general University profile!

Well thanks for your responses.

I think i will go to King's college, even if my choice remains quite indecisive ...