Chemical Engineering - need some help choosing universities

The following universities have chemical engineering:
Birmingham
Manchester
Nottingham
Sheffield
UCL
Loughborough
Leeds
Surrey

Manchester velodrome next to manchester uni - good training in weekdays, then go to lakes at the weekends.

What about Newcastle (they offer chemical engineering also and are accredited degrees)? Great countryside for biking and, despite the city's immense reputation night-life wise, it's not all about clubbing.

Like Newcastle, Manchester has one or two national parts nearby and some great countryside so it would seem a good choice bikining wise, but is let down by the course. My mountain biking brother would recommend Sheffield.

Loughboroguh is, of course, known for its sport. I'm not sure whether it has a mountain bike club/society though.

Leeds is often up there in surveys of, and in threads about the "best student cities", so the nightlife will be good, and being a reasonably-sized place it should have alternative social bits to offer too.

I'm not sure what you mean by safety, but I guess the costs aren't particularly high.

I'm not too sure what I meant by safety either (I guess just the general crime rate and the overall experience of people living there compared to other cities), costs would definitely be an issue as I'm not sure whether I can pull this (moving to England to study there) off, so by choosing Leeds over London I guess I'd be reducing the costs by a fair amount.

Thank you all, much appreciated!
-Gabor

Are you really so concerned about crime? Even places like Nottingham, London and Manchester are safe places, providing you take the usual precautions and have a bit of common sense you should be fine. It's unlikely you'll ever be a victim of crime anyway.

But Leeds, Surrey, Loughborough and Sheffield (plus Newcastle, if you're interested) are probably the "safest" out of those. Newcastle's crime rate is quite low for a major urban area. Loughborough is a campus based uni and you're in a decent area.

There are loads of engineering courses (general, civil, electronic, mechanical, etc etc) so having on your personal statement that you are interested in chemical would definitely be an advantage, in my opinion.

Possibly. But both stem from the same roots, I guess so you could tweak it a bit to include the nuclear engineering one. Don't ask me how though.

It can be done. I somehow managed to write a PS for chemistry and geography. I have no idea how I did it though.

I don't even have it any more to look at, and I can't remember anything that was in it at all. Yeah, I got all unconditionals, but then I did already have the grades and I don't think Scottish universities care too much about statements if you have exceeded the grades they ask for.