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Oxbridge engineering

Hi

I wanted to ask if anyone knew anything about the oxbridge engineering courses. I am looking to do engineering at uni and am looking at other unis too, but i wanted to find out whether there was much difference between oxford and cambridge when it comes to engineering. Btw, i am more inclined towards oxford for some reason.

I got 7 A* and 3 As for gcse. A level subjects are maths, further maths, physics, dt, AS economics.

Please advise

Thanks

(edited 12 years ago)

Reply 1

RedCasino

Engineering is almost like Medicine, it won't matter where you do it, be it Oxford or Brunel or anywhere else for that matter, as long as it's accredited. There's a severe shortage of Engineers in the UK (half are from abroad because of this), that grade entry is lower and experience rules in this career field. It'll only help you get the first job, unless you plan to go somewhere unrelated to Engineering, where university choice might matter, such as finance.

Your GCSEs are spot on, the average is about 6A*s, and your A-levels are good... do lots of further pure modules and mechanics modules in Further Maths. You've got the 3 main ones, which is good, some schools will like DT as well but most offer for 3 A-levels, likely to be your double maths and physics.

Good luck! There's no difference between Cambridge and Oxford besides the way they do it, like you can specialise in Chemical Engineering at Oxford in 3rd year but you can't at Cambridge as it's in a different faculty so you must go into there in your first or second year instead.

Though if you do care about faculty, Oxbridge and Imperial are spot on as being the best in UK/EU.