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  1. FelineCostumier's Avatar
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    Re: Towns with lots of unis
    (Original post by SecretDuck)
    There are four Edinburgh unis which I know of:

    Edinburgh, Napier, Queen Margaret and Heriot Watt.
    There's also ECA.
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  3. swbp's Avatar
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    Re: Towns with lots of unis
    Brighton has three - Sussex, Brighton and BIMM if it counts....
  4. swbp's Avatar
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    Re: Towns with lots of unis
    A better question would be, where is the rivalry strongest between any two universities in a town?
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    (Original post by swbp)
    A better question would be, where is the rivalry strongest between any two universities in a town?
    LSE and KCL really don't like each other... :dontknow:
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    Re: Towns with lots of unis
    (Original post by Historophilia)
    London probably, off the top of my head it has:

    UCL
    KCL
    LSE
    QMUL
    Brunel
    Kingston
    Roehampton
    LSBU
    Imperial

    And there's even more than that which i can't think of at this second
    westminister, london met, New College of the Humanities, East London uni, West London uni, Goldsmith, Birbeck, Greenwich, Middlesex, SOAS

    thats not including other ones...............never realised there was so many
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    UK rivalries are definately nothing compared to US rivalries. MIT and Caltech seem to have one of the most fierce.
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    Re: Towns with lots of unis
    Lancaster has three(ish).

    Lancaster University.
    UCLAN.
    UCUM.
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    Re: Towns with lots of unis
    (Original post by Vitamin D)
    Two West of Scotland campuses too if you count both Paisley and Hamilton!
    Also GSA if that counts as separate from Glasgow
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    Re: Towns with lots of unis
    (Original post by aspirinpharmacist)
    Your sig made me laugh.
    Likewise, your username captivating :awesome:

    Edit: so captivating that I missed out a word
    Last edited by RVNmax; 25-07-2012 at 23:12.
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    Re: Towns with lots of unis
    Birmingham has 4 - BCU, Aston, Uni of Birmingham and university college Birmingham. I don't know about university college Birmingham but BCU Aston and Uni of Bham all have campuses pretty close together.
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    Re: Towns with lots of unis
    London has around 22 universities, probably around 50 if you count the specialist ones.
    Last edited by txo; 25-07-2012 at 18:04.
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    Re: Towns with lots of unis
    (Original post by RVNmax)
    If we're doing that then the UEA campus on Liverpool St. is another for London

    Separately, St. George's uni which is in Tooting another one for London?
    Coventry University has a London campus

    http://wwwm.coventry.ac.uk/LondonCampus/Pages/Home.aspx

    So does the University of Notre Dame (the fighting Irish)

    http://nd.edu/~ndlondon/

    and NYU

    http://www.nyu.edu/global/london/campus/index.htm

    not forgetting Sunderland

    http://www.sunderland.ac.uk/londoncampus/

    and University of Wales Trinity St Davids

    http://www.tsdlondon.ac.uk/en/londoncampus/

    and of course Cumbria

    http://www.cumbria.ac.uk/AboutUs/Con...ps/London.aspx
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    Re: Towns with lots of unis
    (Original post by SpongebobSquarepan)
    does bristol have a few?
    Only 2 the two; University of Bristol and UWE.
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    Re: Towns with lots of unis
    London probably has the most, Greater Manchester has four (UoM, MMU, Salford and Bolton).
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    Re: Towns with lots of unis
    (Original post by Vitamin D)
    Two West of Scotland campuses too if you count both Paisley and Hamilton!
    Glasgow also has the RSAMD and Glasgow School of Art. There's actually quite a few here and I'd never really thought about it.
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    Re: Towns with lots of unis
    (Original post by charminggirl)
    Glasgow also has the RSAMD and Glasgow School of Art. There's actually quite a few here and I'd never really thought about it.
    Oh, good point :yep:
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    Re: Towns with lots of unis
    (Original post by SpongebobSquarepan)
    does bristol have a few?
    Two - Bristol and UWE.

    Liverpool has three - Uni of, John Moores and Hope.
    Manchester has several - Uni of, MMU, Salford, RNCM and you could also count Bolton, which is in Greater Manchester, about 15 miles from the centre.
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    Re: Towns with lots of unis
    Liverpool has at least 3 (Liverpool, Liverpool John Moores, Liverpool Hope), Birmingham has at least 3 (Birmingham, Aston, Birmingham City) and London has about 19 I think.
    Edit; London has loads really
    Last edited by izpenguin; 26-07-2012 at 15:15.
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    Re: Towns with lots of unis
    Most people say here that Birmingham has 3/4 Universities, technically that's correct if you're following along lines of Birmingham which are quite small and most people travel across these lines like there's no lines everyday. However, if you follow West Midlands county which are pretty much limit for most people living in West Midlands due to transport differences between outside and inside county.

    There are 7/6 universities in west Midlands county.
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