How good is Royal Holloway?

Well i think it depends how much u enjoy studying there, the more u enjoy it the more chance u have of getting a better degree. Hopefully im gonna study geography there next year, when applying for my uni's i didnt look at any tables cause there just stupid, when looking round RH i was actually in awe of it, not just the building, how much the course suited me, the good lecturers, and accommodation, oh and there area. For me its amazing and i looked at A LOT of uni's

If you had any attention you would notice you sought to attack other degrees first, rather than me attacking management. Look at university courses across the board and management is known to not be a classical and traditional course. If we look at politics, law, journalism you will notice the vast majority of successful people have traditional subjects, whether it be in the arts (like those you deride, English, History and Languages) or the sciences, rather than business or management. How many successful bankers do you think would have management degrees, not many is the answer.
The way I look at it, I am interested in history, where do the best academics and specialists work? Thats right in university. Where do the best managers and business people work? In business where they make money, not at universities. For many of your courses apparently the lecturers barely speak English, and if you look at the rankings management simply is not as well respected as English, History and Physics for example. One of the reasons some have given for Royal Holloway's slip down the rankings is because they have begun to slip down the overall rankings (from 12th when I applied with three A's at A-Level) to its current ranking is because of the money and concentration it now applies to the Management department rather than the Universities traditional stronger subjects.
History really is anything but irrelevant by the way my friend, and frankly anyone who suggests it is an ignorant idiot, but there you go.
Im anything but a troll, just providing the facts. Talking of facts, got any evidence to suggest that Management really does have the highest employability rate? It may be true I suppose, but most of these statistics dont take into account that many do in fact get jobs after univeirsty not in graduate jobs, but in retail and indeed in Fast-Food service.

The minute you claimed Management was a 'joke' made me think you were a troll making your argument invalid to me. There's no way any full degree course at Rhul would truly be that easy for you to make remarks like you did. And honestly it's common knowledge as to how employable it is.

And as for the bad English statement, 6/7 of my lecturers were British (1 Canadian) and their English was fine, only 1 lecturer was foreign. So once again I have no idea who's telling you these ridiculous things.

Seriously I don't think anything you said towards Management was a fact, other than your arguments defending History.

It's impossible to prove which course is easiest unless you survey.

i was just wondering whether it's a really rural, boring area? i prefer cities and hate villages so im hoping it's not too 'villagy' lol???

Wot is ther to do in a management degree? Just out of curiosity coz I can't think of anything that it could possibly consist of except business degree type stuff and thats a business degree.

From my experience studying there, management is the butt of all jokes, and in many cases it does seem to be a weaker course, depsite all the money the University pumps into it, probably more to do with the amount of money that foreign students, who in the majority study management bring into the Uni.
Overall, and bear in mind I lived with a management student and friends with many for my duration, management did seem like an easier course, in terms of workload and academic credibility.
For one thing, I saw a past paper question for an ethics course in management which asked 'Is it wrong to sleep with your boss?'.
In general it really is not considered to be to the same standard as the English, History, Physics, and Classics departments, who actually have some world class lecturers, and the standard of student seems to be better in these departments anyway.

As a management graduate...

I did read your whole post, but I'd just like to ask what your graduate opportunities are like. I've actually heard of a bloke who graduated in management in 2010 and he's still working in Boots. Pretty much a similar story for the pure management grads I've seen; totally different to those who majored in another department, like Maths.

as a management graduate, i'd just like to tell you that the degree offered so much choice as to what modules you chose. So those who went down the ethics route will have had a different experience to those who went down the finance and accounting route as i did.

I think its naive to thus judge my severely harsh and stressful time studying what will ultimately be classified as a management degree as 'easier' simply because you lived with one management student. Workload is beyond belief. First year was easy and unfortunately that is where the rhul management reputation of having an easy ride comes from. Second year and third year are an entirely different story.

To disrespect all those who studied management by saying their degree lacks credibility is wrong of you do to so, however, you seem so set on keeping it as your opinion that no-one could probably persuade you otherwise. Nor should anyone need to. Those of us who have studied management and have worked hard will be proud of doing so.

It is however fair for those who have first hand experience in this degree to point out to you what the degree is really about and what their experiences were.

I lived with someone who studied history at rhul and all she told me was how easy it was to get her high 2:1 and how unchallenging the course was. I'd never take it up as my opinion therefore that history at rhul is 'easy'. I know better than to make such a large generalisation of a subject on one persons experience.

On the whole it's good. Most departments are very respectful, except the politics and music departments which are very well respected, and management which is not.

Sure no problems, well my current opportunities are in management, banking and accounting, although my career advisor did point out to me that the breadth of the subjects and modules i've taken could lead to other careers if i really wanted, but because my interests have always been in finance I knew this degree was right for me and quite rightly so. My friends in management in the year above have managed to secure accounting positions in places like the Big 4 and other top 20 accounting firms. I've also had 2 friends accepted by Bank of America, and another has actually decided a drastic career train and has been accepted to start training to be a pilot!

So as you can see, it really could lead you anywhere, its ultimately down to the passion of a career profession held by the individual.

Congratulations to your friends in boots, if hes doing the management graduate programme with boots thats a highly sought-after area of employment!