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Bath (like Durham, at least when I applied) offers it as a joint honours, so you study 2 sciences for your whole degree. Other unis (i.e. Cambridge and UCL, again at least when I applied) start with 2-3, but narrow down to 1. This ruled out a fair few unis for me.
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The modules available. NatSci courses vary massively at different unis as they all offer different modules. For example, Durham offers archaeology but Bath doesn't. For me personally, the modules offered at Bath, as well as the combination flexibility, were perfect. My tip would be to compose hypothetical combinations of modules at each uni you are looking at, so you can visualise what you would study at each. This way you can easily see if at a certain uni you would be force to do a module you don't like, or see which module combination works best for you. Essentially just look in detail at the modules, as NatSci at one uni may offer completely different module combinations to another uni.
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The location. I didn't really want to be in a big city, so that put Bath above my 2 city options (Imperial and Edinburgh), but I also didn't want to be at a campus uni in a small, not very exciting area (which ruled out Durham). I'd visited Nottingham and York and didn't like the areas, which ruled them out. I'd visited Bath, and it's a happy medium between a city uni and a campus uni. It's in a vibrant city with tonnes to do, but the city isn't SO big that it's overwhelming.
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