Nottingham Firmers?

The above poster clearly isn't aware of what people in influential circles in the business World think of Nottingham. It still enjoys a very good name within the Tory party, and yes it is seen as a prime alternative to Oxbridge still. The introduction of small group teaching and increased spending on facilities should raise the university much higher in the UK and World rankings within the next 5 years. This can easily be funded thanks to the £600 million a year income the university now has, double that of Durham's. This also compares well to Imperial, which as a £770 million annual income.

Is the introduction of small teaching groups recent?

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I think you're the one spouting complete utter crap. Time have changed and Nottingham is no longer regarded as a premier institute for undergrads - it is now seen as the likes of Birmingham, Sheffield and Newcastle. How can you expect it to be a prestigious university when someone with AABbb can get in?! It's not even close to the selectivity of Durham and St Andrews when their average student gets A*A*Aaa.
I've looked at the statistics for Economics, Physics and Medicine and again, the quality of St Andrews and Durham's undergrads far outmatch Nottingham's (especially Durham for Physics).

Durham and St Andrews will be regarded as more prestigious (even if they're smaller) because the quality of its students are superior to those at Nottingham. An institution loses its prestige when it starts to priorities increasing funds (through increasing student body) by losing its selectivity (lowering entrance requirements).

You speak ill of Manchester of York, but in all honesty you should be honoured. Manchester and York are seen as better universities worldwide, Nottingham only ranks 171st in the world league tables.

You can only dream that Nottingham will attract the brightest students but statistics speak otherwise.

Nottingham is a good university, but certainly not a top university like St Andrews and especially Durham.

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Interesting what junk you will find if you look at old threads! Your post came up when I hit the search button on St Andrews and Durham.

Nottingham is a good university, but certainly not a top university like St Andrews and especially Durham.

Having visited Oxbridge and UCL very recently, it seems laughable how much prestige you have tried to label at Durham and St Andrews. Compared to Oxbridge they are like men against boys, they would laugh at flattery, and suffer no rivalry from these much smaller universities. If it were Edinburgh we were talking about, you would have a point, as it is genuinely a World class university, with grounds and the history behind it that even Oxbridge would be proud of.

In short, Durham and St Andrews are not prestigious. If they were, then the whole World would be aware of them and their grounds.

Yeah, they're really not prestigious at all, Nottingham is far more known around the world than both tbf.

Indeed I have too Are you thinking of accommodation? I want to go self-catered but I'm not sure to go Raleigh Park or Broadgate Park