King's College London

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Why is King's College London so underrated by The Guardian?!

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Original post by Theriverboatsong

ARWU isn't as respected as QS and THE in the UK generally. The UK league tables kind of got the stuffing knocked out of them when student satisfaction replaced teaching assessment scores. I guess the newspapers thought they could make the whole thing more popular and mainstream by getting student views fed into the rankings. Huge error of judgement.

The THE ranking doesn't use student satisfaction.
http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/world-university-rankings/2014-15/world-ranking/methodology

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King's College London

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Reply 21

Theriverboatsong

Original post by Josb

The THE ranking doesn't use student satisfaction.
http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/world-university-rankings/2014-15/world-ranking/methodology

Did I say it did??????

Reply 22

Josb

Original post by Theriverboatsong

Did I say it did??????

No, read too fast. :biggrin:

Reply 23

Dead End Street

Because The Guardian are meddling lefties

Reply 24

scrotgrot

Guardian rankings are a joke, they put too much weight on bull**** poorly operationalised feel-good criteria like "student satisfaction"

Reply 25

username1481111

I'd just like to say as a student at King's, i understand why the student satisfaction is low, and trust me it matters. You have very little contact with the staff, and you struggle to find help with stuff you don't understand. Yh on the whole a KCL is more recognized internationally then at queen Mary. But my point is, student satisfaction matters. :smile:

Reply 26

User1248243

That depends on your course though, for example medicine is a lot higher than say English, what you studying? :smile:

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Reply 27

username1481111

Original post by Guren

That depends on your course though, for example medicine is a lot higher than say English, what you studying? :smile:

The joy that is physics

Reply 28

username1481111

Original post by Guren

That depends on your course though, for example medicine is a lot higher than say English, what you studying? :smile:

What are you studying btw?

Reply 29

Gnomes&Knights

Original post by Dead End Street

Because The Guardian are meddling lefties

Isn't King's very international in terms of students and staff? I heard that King's is Asian fest.

Reply 30

queen-bee

I miss my time at KCL

Reply 31

binarythoughts

Original post by queen-bee

I miss my time at KCL

What course did you do?

Reply 32

User1248243

Original post by Raymat

Isn't King's very international in terms of students and staff? I heard that King's is Asian fest.

Strand has loads of european people studying international relations and european studies and other courses they make up the majority. Medicine and dentistry is the one where lots of Asians study. Either way everyone gets on well with each other (not sure if you have a UKIP style agenda, if not then no worries :smile:

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queen-bee

Original post by binarythoughts

What course did you do?

Biomed

Reply 34

Arkasia

Whenever I read lists of the best games of all time, I see games like Ultra Street Fighter 4 being rated higher than Arkham Asylum. Do I fling my **** out of the pram? No, I accept someone else has different criteria for rating games to me.

Reply 35

User1248243

Original post by queen-bee

Biomed

Go into research or a job or into medicine? It's quite varied that course :smile:

Reply 36

binarythoughts

Original post by Arkasia

Great analogy sir

Reply 37

Gnomes&Knights

Original post by Guren

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If UKIP ever come to power, does that mean students from abroad will not be able to come to the UK to study? If they have a policy that prevents EU/international students from studying at UK universities then they are obviously a crap party.