Oxford Brookes vs. Loughborough

Which one would you choose, and why? Would love to hear from students from both sides about all aspects..!!

Ps. both for Management courses...

All contributions/info/views much appreciated.. :smile:

Reply 1

InterCity125

don't know for the course and I don't go to either institution but:

Have you visited them?
Have you asked potential employers if they have any preference?
Have you talked to current students about the +/- of each?

All I know is that:
OB is a good, but new insitution, good for history of the top of my head (and many others)
L is quite well established and has a good rep for many subjects.

Reply 2

swallows

Loughborough has a good and improving reputation. It finally seems to be shrugging off it's rep as a sports uni and achieves very high ratings in many subjects (i know league tables should be taken with a pinch of salt but as far as I can remember the Times rated it about 10th recently and it certainly is always top 20 in their rankings most of the time). A friend of mine is there and even though it's quite a small town she's loving it.

Oxford Brookes also has a good reputation (probably the best of the ex-polys) and seems to be getting better year on year. On the whole though, I would pick Lufbra as it is seen by the majority as a "proper" uni whereas Brookes, however good it is and will undoubtedly become, still has the stigma of "ex-poly" attached to it. Oxford seems like a lovely place though.

Reply 3

spoon1

if you go to oxford brookes you could pretend you go to oxford.....

Reply 4

G_H_G

spoon1

if you go to oxford brookes you could pretend you go to oxford.....

And then have lots of people laugh at you when they find out where you actualy go :wink:

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Loughborough is a much better uni than brookes.

Reply 5

Candy-Kills

Loughborogh is the only university in all UK which offers

-Mechanical eng with management as a sandwich course (yummy)

thats why i'll probably be going there

--> + already recieved info from it and looks pretty pretty :wink: