I think that everyone with an Oxbridge degree is elitist.

Ahaha I see I do agree with you that the aptitude of the person (and other personal factors) matter much more than simply having an Oxbridge degree. But they are good universities and this will help in terms of opportunities and "push to achieve." Although I guess the extent of the Oxbridge advantage is debatable.

In the first page, you linked average starting salaries. Now let's be honest - big high-paying jobs in finance require you to be numerate and have a logical way of thinking but they don't necessarily need insane intelligence of any sort. If we look at success in academia instead as a measure of graduate performance, things may look different.


Posted from TSR Mobile

lol well sort of. Its not a rich part of the country.

This lot were the scariest fans I have ever seen! Which parts are the good and bad parts of the city?

Ahh lol Nah, apparently after my year group we had an absolutely terrible time and its now one of the worst colleges for Medicine in terms of exam results!

Nothing has changed about my attitudes towards Oxbridge, I was just hoping to get a few people into my thread so theyd talk about stuff.

Ive never felt that Oxbridge is elitist baring one or two small groups of people, mostly in Oxford rather than Cambridge. Ive always thought the degree is as precious and as significant as what the holder is willing to put it to use doing. And most of the people I know are pretty down-to-earth nice people!

Stick a pin over Senate House. Thats 'good'. Then draw circles outwards, those are increasing degrees of bad. However, South Cambridge has some nice parts to it.

I'm kind of confused now, were you trolling/devils advocating?

And with good reason I'm afraid...

http://cambridge.tab.co.uk/2014/06/02/wanna-be-a-billionaire-come-to-cambridge/

Most of them are so in your face about it! They think they're better than everyone else at every other university.

What they don't understand is that in the real world their degree doesn't really mean anything.

What is this supposed to show?

Exactly as the article says. Cambridge has produced more billionaires than any other British (or European or Asian) uni. Is it a coincidence? I personally think it is a combination of an excellent education system and extremely talented undergrads, which could by the way justify some of the pride they feel for being oxbridge-educated!

right - and it chose to illustrate the point with Lord John Sainsbury who inherited the Sainsbury supermarket chain and Baron David Thomson who inherited the Thomson media corporation.

right - and it chose to illustrate the point with Lord John Sainsbury who inherited the Sainsbury supermarket chain and Baron David Thomson who inherited the Thomson media corporation.

It's David Sainsbury (ex King's, Cambridge, and also Chancellor of Cambridge) - he "only" has 6% of it... most of the rest of his shares went in trust to charity.

John Sainsbury went to Oxford.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/universityeducation/9532912/Best-universities-for-high-starting-salaries.html?frame=2334366

This is a list of the 'Best Universities For High Starting Salaries'

1. LSE
2. Imperial
3. St Georges
4. UCL
5. RVC

And everyone knows that the majority of people only get into Oxbridge due to their wealthy backgrounds. These salaries are despite them fully utilising their family connections in industry. And they still couldn't get into the top 5.