eitherway, the fact he got his phd at greenwich and got hired at mclaren is surprising (then again pat fry did go to london guildhall university if memory serves correctly)

Reply 165

Lawliettt

Original post by Nameless Ghoul

Grade inflation -- I have to say you're off the mark here. Exeter rather than being dishonest about the grades it will accept is exceptionally honest.

I don't think i explained myself properly on this point. I don't mean exeter literally upped their grades. I like that they offer truthful grade ranges. I was basically saying the fact that they don't have a large nursing and midwifery school (just an example. There are other lower entry tariff courses too) means it's misleading to directly compare the average entry standards for unis. 2 institutions can be equally as good in most things. But one can also have a department with a huge art emphasis and it'll drag the entry standards shown on the ranking website down. Therefore making the overall uni seem lower ranked. A uni shouldn't be punished for having a bigger variery of courses.

That along with the academic funding and student to staff issue is why i think the complete uni guides ranking algorithm is dodgy

But once again, i was only given my opinion on the threads question. I don't think Exeter Uni is bad. I still enjoyed my visit overall

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Reply 166

Nameless Ghoul

Original post by Lawliettt

No, I understood your nursing point and its limits. I was merely elaborating on it and pointing out that, analysing courses side-by-side, Exeter still wins on the entry front.

Reply 167

Lawliettt

Original post by Nameless Ghoul

. I was merely elaborating on it and pointing out that, analysing courses side-by-side, Exeter still wins on the entry front.

How do you know though? As far as I'm aware, there's no website that compares every course that both unis offer side by side and takes an average. They all just look at overall entry tariffs. You could manually do it but it's not worth the time and effort. And what specific uni are you referring to with the comparisons ?

Reply 168

Oilfreak1

Original post by Lawliettt

Manchester vs Exe civil eng

You'll find very little to distinguish the entry tariffs of the 2, Manchester has a fair amount less between 400-479 (65% vs 45%) however it's worth noting that Manchester has more students between 480-519 (15% vs 10%) as well 520-559 (10% vs 0%)

Manchester has 80% (360 UCAS) while Exeter has 100%, however this doesn't euqate to AAA, the data shows that at least in this data set Manchester is not accepting BTECs and Access courses in their Civil Eng course while Exeter is (BTECs get the equivalent of AAA far more easily).

So yeah pretty much nothing between the two in entry standards, Exeter is more stringent with the 360 UCAS ruling, whether BTEC or A-Level no one has been accepted with below 360 UCAS, while Manchester attracts more "brilliant" students, with 10% pretty much looking like imperial rejects.

If we compare the two with Imperial however it's pretty clear that neither is a "top 10 university" at least as far as entry standards for civil engineering goes

Reply 169

ServantOfMorgoth

Original post by aymanzayedmannan

When I said that, I had Berkeley, LA (and to some extent) San Diego in mind. :redface:

Berkeley is the best one...

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Reply 170

Ayman!

Original post by ServantOfMorgoth

Berkeley is the best one...

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Ik, with LA a close second especially for engineering

Reply 171

Student403

Original post by aymanzayedmannan

Ik, with LA a close second especially for engineering

And computer science :yep:

Reply 172

ServantOfMorgoth

Original post by Student403

And computer science :yep:

I hope you get in and stay on CC

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Reply 173

Student403

Original post by ServantOfMorgoth

I hope you get in and stay on CC

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Didn't even apply lol

But I am headed to the US and plan to stay on both :yep:

Reply 174

username1258398

Original post by tcameron

I agree to an extent - three teachers in my school went to Cambridge and are now just school teachers, and this is the only job they've had despite doing respectable degrees :/
Whenever those in my school got offers from Cambridge a maaasive deal was made out of it from the school&the student's like they'd won the lottery or something - this even being before they'd confirmed their place
Cambridge has produced some great people in the past though