Bangor vs LJMU for Psychology

Bangor!

Bangor's home though, and boring But a better course cause of the stats and a better uni. And I know the Psychology degree is recognised as a really good one there!

I know it's boring, but the teaching is excellent. I'm sure that all unis cover stats. Anyway, if you end up at Bangor you'll have a better chance of getting a 2.1/1st. It'll make your 3 years at uni feel worthwhile.

On the other hand, if you're desperate to get away from North Wales then go to LJMU. But if I were you, I would choose Bangor. You could always go to pubs and bars such as Varsity and Rascals. Time and Octogon are good night clubs, so it's not all bad.

I'm not desperate to move away from North Wales but it's moving out of home that I wanna do the most. I need independence and that. I suppose Bangor wouldn't be boring if I was a student there though, with all the societies you can join and stuff. I wish I wasn't from so close actually then I'd definitely go there!

I feel like I'd be so much better off coming out with a degree from Bangor than from LJMU cause the course in Bangor is recognised as a really good one. I'm really thinking about it now!

Cool, I'm glad you're really considering about going there. In my opinion, the quality of the uni's department is more significant than the city life.

I'd say LJMU purely because I went there! (just finished, graduate in July eek! ). I think LJMU is like 100ish in the league tables? LOL but to be honest i wouldn't even think about that, it won't matter where you go in terms of reputation and jobs. You'll have just as good a chance if you goto either, provided you work hard and get a decent degree.
The course is really good, take it its the Applied Psychology one you'd be doing? Theress so many different modules from all areas of psychology and you can choose which ones you want to do in your second and particularly your third year. PLUS theres a new multi million pound Psychology building new this year (opened in like March, so just missed being there really ) really high tech lots of labs and various psychological equipment to use for your projects etc. I'm not going to say the teaching is great for all modules, because its not...like many uni's i'd say. But I had some pretty great lecturers for some modules and with effort and determination you'll get the grade you deserve despite having even the most rubbish lecturer in the world.
Thats my viewpoint of Psychology at LJMU PM me if you want to know anything else.

I don't know too much about Bangor but I went there on an open day when I was deciding and I didn't like it at all...to out in the sticks and not my cup of tea really. But my friend went there to be Psychology and I think she enjoyed it as far as I know. To be honest Bangor doesn't really have that great a reputation...and from my observations doesn't seem to be too popular with students. Its always in clearing and my friend had an offer of BBB and got BCU and they still let her in :/ Really puzzled me lol...she doesn't have any extra experience or anything for them to give reason to do that.

So yeah its what you make of it at the end of the day. You'll have just as many opportunities..it will not matter AT ALL if you goto LJMU or Bangor...believe me. I've just got into Cambridge University starting September to do a PGCE Primary Course and Masters in Education and hope to do an Educational Psychology Doctorate in a few years.

P.S the person who said you'd have more chance of getting a 2:1/1st if you goto Bangor...how exactly did you work that one out LOL. Have you studied at both Unis and tested this out?

P.P.S At LJMU you will have to do stats modules in both Level 1 and 2 and then your dissertation in Level 3. So lots of stats...which I personally dislike cos I don't really like maths! haha.

Yeah I agree with that
Can I ask why are you leaving Bangor uni this year then to go to Royal Holloway?

Were you happy with the quality of the teaching there and stuff? Like did you find the lecturers helpful and that you could approach them for help easily or are you totally left on your own. I heard that in Manchester there had been loads of complaints about lecturers not helping their students enough, which is why its gone down so much in student satisfaction.

I live about 20 miles down the road from bangor. Did work experience there in the psych dept. and i know loads of people including mum who lecture there. Seriously good for psych!

I know what you mean about not wanting to stay here, obviously part of the attraction of going to uni is moving away from home, meeting new people which will obviously happen anywhere just moving to bangor just doesnt seem that exciting to me as i only live down the road! As long as both courses are BPS accredited its fine really but i think the standard of teaching and research in bangor is amazing - some of the lecturers there really are inspiring - I did work experience with Prof. Bob Rafal and his research is supposedly proper groundbreaking stuff.

But yeah obviously the nightlife is an issue in bangor, Ive go out there a couple times and every night its the same old oci/time/varsity stuff. and on the other hand liverpool is a brilliant night out with a much larger student population so there will be much less of the same faces each night or whatever.

As a university Bangor doesnt have an amazing reputation except in certain subjects like Psych and Marine Biology. So if you plan to go further in psych maybe bangor would be the way to go? but like i said earlier the main thing is that the courses are BPS accredited and i THINK both are, bangor definitely is.

so yeah let me know what you decide

LJMU is BPS accredited, I checked that before I applied.
I was thinking I'd do the degree in Liverpool then to a post-grad in Bangor if I decided to go that way. Everyone who goes to Bangor uni seems to love it (for Psychology) but I just don't wanna live at home, wanna get away from my family and stuff. That sounds bad but I need to get away!