Best unis for engineering

I always see bristol and imperial top engineering tables but what about other specialised unis like Sheffield, Southampton, leeds, bath etc who have the same high entry grades but are rated lower? I always thought that high entry grades were high for a reason...

Strathclyde, worth a look (tho' my engineer friends who studied there say they should rather have done financial engineering)
I agree that Oxford uni is good, my engineer friends from there, some are working in British science, oh and one is now a lawyer in NZ with an MBA
Imperial, according to Paxman on uni challenge, are busy building the Death Star - but they rejected all my friends who wished to engineer there
One friend studied engineering at ÈPFL Lausanne, but left after a year as no-one talked to him, he went to KGU in Osaka instead

I think the top twenty or even top 40 UK engineering schools will all do a great job, and I'm sure that people will talk to you, also I consider all entry grades this and maybe next year as BC entry grades, Before Coronavirus-19, something might change due the expected dearth of overseas applicants.

Can you tell me more about your friend who studied at EPFL? I'm curious because EPFL and ETH Zurich are the world's best technical universities and their graduates should certainly be admired a lot anywhere in the world. I'm considering studying computer science there myself.

ETH (Ay Tay Hah) is the best! and you can nip to the zoo or FIFA whenever you have a spare minute, however, you'd be unlikely to have a spare Swiss franc, as Zeurich is so expensive. my friend who is still at ETH is very happy with their teaching, (she is German mother-tongue), says they have iPad compatible slides of all lectures online just after the teaching, so it is relatively easy to read further at home.

Ècole Polytechnique, on the other hand - there were no accommodations available, nowt, so my mate had to stay in a hotel for 3 months, in Switzerland!
To save costs he returned home every weekend. Hence had no social life there. Many students at EPFL studied at high school together, so they were a bit cliquey, Swiss aren't really that open to foreigners. It was OK, but you just need to have the right nerd mentality.

Comp sci, I met the prof there at epfl, he was great, and bowed when I mentioned I was a mate of TimBL. We had a long chat.

Comp sci students at epfl can join the computer club, mend all the other students laptops etc, and get paid real Swiss wages whilst doing it.

but remember comp sci is mostly maths

it's a fun place EPFL, I'd personally prefer to study in Geneva

I always see bristol and imperial top engineering tables but what about other specialised unis like Sheffield, Southampton, leeds, bath etc who have the same high entry grades but are rated lower? I always thought that high entry grades were high for a reason...

What sort of Engineering? Do you want to work in industry? in Formula 1?

The best unis offer a year in Industry and tend to be outside the RG group - Bath, Loughborough and Oxford Brookes are ones to look at. Entry grades aren't that relevant these days - Engineering has changed a lot on the last 5 to 10 years. I've seen a huge shift in that time of where my best students apply ...

I've applied to mechanical and general engineering courses as I dont want to limit my options for different jobs. Mechanical is my most preferred discipline but I'd say the ideal field to work in would be one that included multidisciplinary roles and one that is at the forefront of innovation. Working alongside industry is obviously very important but I also want to assure that my hard work to get good grades was worthwhile, to exclude the thought that I could have put in less effort but that's just a personal thing. I'm probably going to firm Durham for its general prestige but I am unaware if it's got engineering prestige?

I've applied to mechanical and general engineering courses as I dont want to limit my options for different jobs. Mechanical is my most preferred discipline but I'd say the ideal field to work in would be one that included multidisciplinary roles and one that is at the forefront of innovation. Working alongside industry is obviously very important but I also want to assure that my hard work to get good grades was worthwhile, to exclude the thought that I could have put in less effort but that's just a personal thing. I'm probably going to firm Durham for its general prestige but I am unaware if it's got engineering prestige?

Is it hard to get into ETH and EPFL? I'm on track to get a 2:1 in electronic engineering and I have experience with writing python-based computer vision and machine learning program and embedded system development in an autonomous vehicle. I also volunteer as a code club teacher at oxford hub. And I'm gonna prepare for GRE after graduation.

I fear that I might get rejected cuz my subject is not computer science and I'm not from a top university; I'm from oxford brookes. I love maths and programming a lot and my aim is to be a video game developer

For a bachelor entry, ÈPFL would best suit a UK student (approximately, in my informed opinion) who’s doing Maths A level, Physics A level, and French at A level, and a Further Maths A level would help too! They teach some English, some French mixed courses - eg Environmental Engineering, but they “laugh” at les matematiqes Anglo-sassone, French maths is harder. It really is.
It’s a struggle, for first six-months, but they do have extra modules to help a bit.

In common with some other unis, nearly all Engineering courses have the same first year - so you can specialise later.

If you haven’t yet got great French, then applying for a Master - taught in English, makes more sense. MSc at ÈPFL is competitive entry, as typically they PAY the student to do the Master, somewhere round €15K, CHF16K.

Dundee is a great engineering school for imagineers, Abertay too has close industry ties.

Durham isn't somewhere to go for Engineering ... remember offer grades are a minimum and I've know 4A*s go to all the unis I named.

From your list I'd go with Bath.

Really interesting to see this common answer as everyone recommended durham to me. I regret my choices as I got rejected from bristol and have warwick loughborough Birmingham and durham left which dont really appeal to me, while there is a chance to use ucas extra for sheffield, bath (mechanical and electrical degree) or Southampton. But hearing this I kind of want to do a 180 and take a gap year to reapply to said recommended universities. Cheers for the pointers👍

Really interesting to see this common answer as everyone recommended durham to me. I regret my choices as I got rejected from bristol and have warwick loughborough Birmingham and durham left which dont really appeal to me, while there is a chance to use ucas extra for sheffield, bath (mechanical and electrical degree) or Southampton. But hearing this I kind of want to do a 180 and take a gap year to reapply to said recommended universities. Cheers for the pointers👍

I'm going to apply for masters and are you sure that they 'pay' you to do MSc? I don't see anywhere that you will literally get paid to do a masters. I think it will be for research PhD?

EDIT: the msc which pays is actually called research scholars msc, which looks competitive. I'm just willing to apply for a regular MSc which has some tuition fees.