Guardian University League Tables 2017

It is difficult to generalize. I have friends at Kings who love it, and a number at Bath whom are very disappointed, as Bath promotes the idea that they have "special " connections with companies for internships, when in fact they don't, and many are scrambling to find something, anything, before the deadline.

The worst kind of person is the one who wrongly thinks they're elite. UCL isn't THAT great. Unless you're doing medicine, realise that it's just the same as any other top 10 University. Loughborough probably is somewhat below, but not to the extent that you can act like you go to Cambridge in comparison.

I got an offer from UCL to do Physics, and ended up picking Warwick as my firm.

Edit: "So, I'm going to be applying to Oxford this fall for engineering. I've had a look at the PAT papers and have noticed the questions are somewhat beyond what the A-level course offers."

dude, are you serious? Do you not even actually have an offer from UCL or something?

The worst kind of person is the one who wrongly thinks they're elite. UCL isn't THAT great. Unless you're doing medicine, realise that it's just the same as any other top 10 University. Loughborough probably is somewhat below, but not to the extent that you can act like you go to Cambridge in comparison.

I got an offer from UCL to do Physics, and ended up picking Warwick as my firm.

Edit: "So, I'm going to be applying to Oxford this fall for engineering. I've had a look at the PAT papers and have noticed the questions are somewhat beyond what the A-level course offers."

dude, are you serious? Do you not even actually have an offer from UCL or something?

Just admit it, people will base prestige on how the university looks at the end of the day. If someone builds a new university that has old buildings like Oxbridge I can guarantee it will climb up those league tables fast because everyone will want to go there and it looks prestiguous. No matter how hard modern plateglasses like Warwick try, they will never really be good because of their crap architecture that makes it feel like a business rather than a place of knowledge and learning.

University of Greenwich for you then

why the hate on Warwick lol its a beautiful university

Try again? It's in London which is quite crappy tbh with the 9000 deaths per year and all that...

As I said, all unis are either a (mostly) modern campus or in a polluted city.

Try again? It's in London which is quite crappy tbh with the 9000 deaths per year and all that...

As I said, all unis are either a (mostly) modern campus or in a polluted city. Only oxbridge, durham and st andrews are good

Air pollution in Cambridge is higher right now than in Greenwich: http://aqicn.org/map/unitedkingdom/#@g/51.9523/-0.0654/8z

(and Oxford is only a single point better than Greenwich)

That can't be right, it says that london has "low" pollution. This one looks much more accurate IMO judging by the google maps earth views of london and cambridge (cambridge is surrounded by greenery)

https://uk-air.defra.gov.uk/data/gis-mapping

That's historical not current.

2014, not that long ago...

Edit: whatever pollution tiny cambridge can produce, london will produce much more I can assure you

Let's just agree that UCL is equally as good as Warwick... Except for the sciences maybe.

Whatever you say fam. Have fun choosing Loughborough and enjoying your ass of for the next 3 years while I go to UCL. But please keep in mind, I'm getting the job

This is THE WORST, most ridiculous comment I've ever read on this whole site. You're the epitome of snob.

Going to UCL is irrelevant if you have an attitude like yours.

If you seriously think an idiot like you is going to get a job over a top class Loughborough grad with the same degree as you simply because you went to a slightly higher ranked university, then you're an idiot.

It's people like you that epitomise the difference between being educated and being intelligent.

Also, the university you go to is largely irrelevant comparing to the course you do, a Loughborough graduate with a mathematics, economics or business degree will be much more competitive in the job market than a UCL graduate with History, English literature, or psychology.

TL;DR: You're an idiot. You haven't even started your university course yet and you're speaking like you're the CEO of Goldman Sachs kid. Good luck 'enjoying' the next three years of your life at a uni you chose because of an ambiguous measure 'prestige'.

Aha, yet another Loughborough untermensch has been triggered. Maybe these crazy high expectations its students get as a result of being the 'Uni of the Year' is getting to their heads.

Aha, yet another Loughborough untermensch has been triggered. Maybe these crazy high expectations its students get as a result of being the 'Uni of the Year' is getting to their heads.

The maturity in this comment is above and beyond what I expected. I haven't heard the 'you don't have any friends' meme since... I was in Year 9? Wow.

(Btw I do genuinely believe what I said about L'boro, let's not start pretending it's somehow an academic powerhouse simply because it attracts the sort of students who feel more at home kicking balls around rather than studying.)

Never said it was an academic powerhouse. Does it have to be? It's still one of the best universities in the country.

especially when the starting salary for graduate jobs on my course is likely higher than 95% of courses in more 'research heavy' unis.