resit or take masters at better uni?

Are you happy going to Loughborough? Engineering is a good thing to do pretty much anywhere and Loughborough tends to be quite strong for that sort of subject.

Just to clarify since you have a mix of undergrad and postgrad courses there, do you mean the MEng course at Imperial?

no, i mean msc innovation design or msc design engineering which i can apply if i were to complete a beng at loughborough. the question is more beng + msc at lboro/imperial or resit and do meng at bristol (which i wanted to do initially)

Ok maybe Leicestershire is a less appealing place to live than Bristol, but once you have your undergrad BEng then you will have many doors opened for you, including potentially Bristol for postgrad if there's a suitable course. Loughborough is a very decent course!

Unless Leicestershire is a deal-breaker then I'd be leaning towards taking up the Loughborough course, but I'd encourage you to try and move beyond thinking about Bristol for now – as I say, it might be a postgrad option! – and make a decision about whether you want to go the Loughborough.

How would you feel if you resat and still didn't get into Bristol? (Not trying to put a downer on it but it's important to think about all possible outcomes when thinking about resitting.)

unfortunately there is no msc for design engineering at bristol, only imperial (which again will cost an absurd amount so im not even sure i can do it) and other random unis which is why im a bit troubled. if i were to resit id reapply to loughborough anyway and end up going there.

by any chance do you know how difficult funding masters would be? i think thats the main issue with not going bristol as that course is pretty much everything packed in one