Bristol or Lancaster

Hi,

I'm going to UK to do my MSc and I have an offer from University of Bristol (MSc Sustainable Water Management) and Lancaster University (MSc Water and Environmental Management). And I need to do a final decision about it and i would like some adivice.

tks

It depends what you care about. Lancaster is ranked 11th best in the UK (on the completeuniversityguide site) and Bristol is 15th, so they are both pretty well-respected universities. And I don't quite understand your chosen course, but in the same rankings, under 'Mechanical Engineering' Bristol is 3rd best in the UK, coming after Imperial College London, and Cambridge, whereas Lancaster is 21st, so for a course like that, Bristol would be better than a very prestigious university like Oxford. So you should go for Bristol on that note, but that's just my opinion.

But you should also take into account how far away they are and what students there have said about it, try looking at the Times student survey. That gives universities ratings from students on different factors like facilities, city life, and even eye candy.. (how good looking the locals are).

Good luck