Quitting a top 10 uni to go to a low ranked ex-poly

Let's face it: you're not going to make it big with a 'media studies' degree from Bristol i.e. IB, consultancy, a top law firm etc. so you're not going to lose much in that regard. However you'll find it significantly harder to get a graduate job if you transfer to that film school. That would be a pretty massive implication.

EDIT: Put it this way - if you were a maths, economics, engineering, law (any strong traditional subject) student, it would be an extreme cause for concern.

FYI I study Drama at UoB

Graduates include:

Matt Lucas
David Walliams
Simon Pegg
Michael Winterbottom
Marcus Brigstoke
Sarah Kane
Mark Ravenhill
David Bamber
...I would go on but I think I've made my point.

I'm taught by one of the editors on pulp fiction, an advisor to the RSC, award winning filmmakers and theatre practitioners as well as being the most highly respected drama degree in the UK and one of the hardest courses to get onto at a uk university in terms of applicants per place. Some of the heads of massive media corporations are Bristol drama grads as are many many high level business execs in advertising, new media and the creative industries in general. It's fair to say that being a Bristol Drama grad has a certain "nudge nudge, wink wink" effect in the film/television/theatre/arts industries - in fact I have been told it first hand by a very successful producer and by the head of united agents.

So please - before you go spouting crap based on an ignorance of the fact that a massive part of the global economy is rooted in media, and the glorious assumption that in order to be a successful artist you have to be 'rich' (not the point my love) do a wee bit of research first oki? The reason why the decision was easy to make in the end was that graduating from my course would have given me equivalent advantages in terms of how the industry view it as being a Bristol law or engineering grad. I think it's advisable, in life as well as on TSR to not offer such a narrow minded opinion in a field you obviously disregard entirely and have no idea about.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/education/good_university_guide/article2253011.ece

Bristol's media department is little exception.

Let me amend my previous post: you are highly unlikely to make it big with a media studies degree from Bristol. There are always going to be exceptions, regardless or university or degree.

Using the examples that you've listed, why go to university at all if you could potentially become a millionaire like Lord Sugar or Richard Branson? They dropped out when they were 16!

To the material highlighted in bold: prove it. Names, links. Only then will I concede.

EDIT: Frankly, i'd never even heard of 'media studies' at the University of Bristol. It can't be all that special as you've preached.

That's because it's BA DRAMA you ****wit

please stop talking nonsense now - you know you aren't making sense.

as for the times "graduate pay" thing - well, that's a little silly to be quoting that m'love seen as performance/media arts is probably the most competitive and widely varied industry in the uk. That figure would include drama and dance school graduates who find it very difficult to make enough money to live on in their first five years, it would include people who did 'drama' at the many institutions where it is, admittedly, a bit pointless to study anything - because there are a LOT of people who want to take drama/film/performance degrees and poorer universities are cashing in on this by creating Ba Drama/Film/Performance departments without actually knowing what they're doing and not even employing the right staff.

Also, as I mentioned before - "success" in the above industries isn't measured by the amount of money you make. In fact a lot of the time artistic integrity comes at the cost of sacrificing very decent wages in other more corporate opportunities. I, for instance, would indeed be in a good position to apply to the beeb or numerous advertising agencies for grad jobs when I finish my degree but I never would nor do I ever intend to - there's more things in life than making money and I'd rather wake up every day in a squat with half a tin of cold baked beans for breakfast knowing that I get to do what I love - than spending thousands of pounds to work in a job, in an industry that I don't adore all so that I can go back to a pretty home for a couple of hours in the evenings and weekends and enjoy my nice middle class wage.

It's pointless arguing as you'll never get what I'm trying to say - so lets just agree to disagree vehemently

Ok

So I study Drama at the University of Bristol

and I'm thinking of quitting to take a Film Degree at the University of Newport which houses the International Film School of Wales.

How massive would the implications be in terms of academic prospects at postgrad and employability?

Has anyone done anything like this??