Turning down a prestigious uni for a lower-ranking one?

Yes and the more prestigious universities are higher accredited. What part of this is so difficult for you to grasp?

Linking to a spreadsheet and saying it proves your point is self fulfilling when you haven’t defined prestigious or provided any analysis of the spreadsheet beyond your vague impression.

Which universities would you describe as prestigious? Which would you describe as good? Which would you describe as weak?

The finance and law sector are obsessed with applicants being educated either at Oxbridge, Imperial, Kings, UCL or LSE. Although, for other subjects this "criteria" is insignificant.

Hi TSR,

I have an offer from a very prestigious RG uni, top 10 in the UK. Obviously I should be happy about having the opportunity to go to such a great uni, but I'm seriously considering turning it down in favour of a much less prestigious university (about 30 places lower in the league tables).

I've visited both unis and preferred the less prestigious one, because it's more of a campus uni, all a bit more small-scale, and the staff were much more friendly. It seemed to be a place that suits me better, and I also prefer the course content. It's also quite highly regarded for my course, hmore so than the RG uni. However, I do think that the people at the RG uni will be more academically inclined and since I'm quite academical myself, maybe it'll be easier for me to make friends there. And I've just read so much about attending a good uni really helping in further study/employment, so maybe it'd just be plain stupid to turn the RG uni down.

I'm really unsure of what to do, advice would be more than welcome

Have you seen the size of the spreadsheet? You might have nothing better to do with your life but that doesn't mean I do.

I didn’t ask you to analyse the data. I asked you to list some examples of universities you class as prestigious, good and weak.

Good: any RG, some others like Bath, St Andrews, Loughborough

Weak: any ex-poly

And there's some middle-y ones like Aston

Prestigious?

Hi TSR,

I have an offer from a very prestigious RG uni, top 10 in the UK. Obviously I should be happy about having the opportunity to go to such a great uni, but I'm seriously considering turning it down in favour of a much less prestigious university (about 30 places lower in the league tables).

I've visited both unis and preferred the less prestigious one, because it's more of a campus uni, all a bit more small-scale, and the staff were much more friendly. It seemed to be a place that suits me better, and I also prefer the course content. It's also quite highly regarded for my course, hmore so than the RG uni. However, I do think that the people at the RG uni will be more academically inclined and since I'm quite academical myself, maybe it'll be easier for me to make friends there. And I've just read so much about attending a good uni really helping in further study/employment, so maybe it'd just be plain stupid to turn the RG uni down.

I'm really unsure of what to do, advice would be more than welcome

High achievers are highly self motivated. If you need others to motivate you, I'm sorry to break it, but you ain't a high achiever.

The higher up the ladder you get, the lonelier it gets. That is a lesson you have yet to learn.

Good/prestigious, same thing really

Examples? Medicine really don't care which university you go to. Subject degrees arent even considered since it's a subject, and the content is the same. Engineering? Majority of universities that provide engineering courses are highly ranked, in addition to this, having an engineering degree is valued as a whole.

I have the same issue but different! I have offers from RG unis in England (Bristol/KCL) and non RG in Scotland (Aberdeen/Strathclyde) and have no idea how to decide as I am choosing between £9000 a year or no tuition fees as I am Scottish- my decision will have to be based on if RG is worth it!

Agriculture and Animal Sciences care too. There are some unis people have never heard of that are very highly ranked in the right circles.

It's probably better to ignore the money side for now. Which course/university do you prefer?

Prefer the courses I was offered at the Scottish unis however I prefer Bristol and London as cities! Very difficult.

It's the accreditation that matters in that equation, not the "prestige". Edit: and tell me where I said accreditation is important to employers? It's important to the student for the reason I gave.

Prestige is more generally considered to be a much narrower selection of universities: more usually only some RGs plus notable non-RGs like St Andrews and Bath. Prestige is a more nebulous idea than being a "good university". Loughborough, UEA and Surrey are "good universities" but few would say they are prestigious.