Which uni's better for chemical eng, ashton or loughborough?

Unis and their rankings kind of need to be taken with a pinch of salt. They're not completely useless, but they are only accurate to, around, 20 places when you move outside of the top 5.

You can see this variation, quite drastically, when you compare UK tables to world tables.

So yeah, they are useful but are not the be-all-end-all :P

Edit: I think UCAS talks about this somewhere...

Loughborough is better than Aston for ChemEng, i applied to both, got an offer from Aston, havent heard from Loughborough, from my research Loughborough has a very good engineering department

Yes Loughborough is great


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If you dont mind 60% boys to 40% girls lol

You are exaggerating . Unis in the top 20-30 tend to stay in the top 20-30. There is a reason for this. There are many factors which justify a drastic change in the ranking of a uni. Funding being the most important. The more money a uni receives ,the more they invest on improving their quality (teaching,facilities,Su,infrastructure,accommodation... ect). Then the multiplier effect comes into action and their quality improves on a long term basis. Then student satisfaction will be high as well as the quality of the teaching. With this will come a reputation which will tend to be long lasting. This is why you'll find that many 'new' unis aren't at the top of the league tables because they don't have a long standing reputation. Also they can't afford to be too selective so this brings their entry requirements down and leads to low overall results. Then even if they get a reasonable amount of money , they will still be regarded as second class because of their results and the general level of the people they accept.
Soas however does fall into the category of 'top unis' which has fallen in the league tables (by around 12 places). This is purely because they've been resting on their laurels and haven't really been bothering to make the effort of making their students feel 'student happy'. When funding /investment changes so does the ranking.
They do break things down on league tables. They don't just throw random numbers at you.

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Which one is better for chem eng? out of the two

League tables tell you exactly who is the best for chemical engineering! Google it

Hmm thanks for the info guys, i'd rather go to aston than loughborough coz it's got a better student life and it's in Birmingham whereas lough is a campus in the middle of nowhere lol

Any other uni's with a good chem eng department and have a good student life? I've chosen, birmingham, aston, ucl, nottingham so far. I have 1 more to choose..