Big up your university!

Reply 40

GodspeedGehenna

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Original post by Stratos

Which would you preffer 'psychology wise' Birmingham or Royal holloway?

Rhul. But that's if neurosci is your thing.

Reply 41

caroline147

14

LSE wins. Social life is amazing, you're in the middle of central London, super international, great academics, etc etc :heart:

Reply 42

Origamistars

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Original post by Kerny

York. eh has ducks and doesn't afraid of anything.

Ooh ooh ooh what else is good about it? :biggrin:

Reply 43

charlotte-rose

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Surrey is the best by far. A club and bars on campus, lots of jobs, great people, great lecturers, highest (I think) graduate employment in the UK... and some awesome parties :wink:

Reply 44

iainthegreat

14

Loughborough. Massive campus, amazing sports facilities and SU is awesome.

Reply 45

Magical Moogles

5

Bath. The most beautiful city in the country; A world heritage site. The campus is not a large distance away from the city, and the campus is incredibly practical and has a small community vibe. We have shops, banks, post office, restaurants all situated on campus. Facilities are amazing. We were the first to have a 24hr Library; its huge and modern. We have some of the best sport facilities, rivalling Loughborough's sporting reputation. The student union is one of the best, and we have a newly built student centre, with many more developing plans on the way.

We are academically one of the very best in the country. In the latest Research Assessment Exercise, two thirds of Bath's individual subject submissions were ranked in the top ten nationally, including over a third in the top five (Source is from Wikipedia). We specialise in the sciences, and we are one of a few universities in the country that offer a placement year, to gain valuable work experience; this might be why we have such fantastic graduate prospects. The student community is diverse; around 25% of the students are international. Everyone is welcomed here, it's hard not to make friends!

Come to Bath. Its perfect...we have ducks. :wink:

Reply 46

kilowattjester

13

University of essex is ok.

Reply 47

Origamistars

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Original post by Magical Moogles

Bath. The most beautiful city in the country; A world heritage site. The campus is not a large distance away from the city, and the campus is incredibly practical and has a small community vibe. We have shops, banks, post office, restaurants all situated on campus. Facilities are amazing. We were the first to have a 24hr Library; its huge and modern. We have some of the best sport facilities, rivalling Loughborough's sporting reputation. The student union is one of the best, and we have a newly built student centre, with many more developing plans on the way.

We are academically one of the very best in the country. In the latest Research Assessment Exercise, two thirds of Bath's individual subject submissions were ranked in the top ten nationally, including over a third in the top five (Source is from Wikipedia). We specialise in the sciences, and we are one of a few universities in the country that offer a placement year, to gain valuable work experience; this might be why we have such fantastic graduate prospects. The student community is diverse; around 25% of the students are international. Everyone is welcomed here, it's hard not to make friends!

Come to Bath. Its perfect...we have ducks. :wink:

Is it better than York for Psych? They're very close I hear.

... And they too have ducks. :wink:

Reply 48

Liam_G

14

Ah, Good.

I was worrying about how easily getable to-able everything would be. I intend to go there if all goes to plan. What course do you do?

Reply 49

TheSownRose

16

Anglia Ruskin, Cambridge campus - the paint's only slightly chipped, the toilets are usually clean and you get used to that strange smell.

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Reply 50

truthandtragedy

16

Original post by xCBRx

Edinburgh - Take home exams because of the snow, what more can you want?

So jealous. Gutted my exams weren't on the 6th! :frown:

I second Edinburgh. It's so ****ing pretty (Old College and McEwan Hall :love:

And Teviot!), the city's got a lovely buzz to it and the nightlife is amazing. The only thing I hate is hearing all the 'gap yah dahhling' girls floating about. :ninja:

Reply 51

tillytots

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Original post by Bubbles0ox

Hey, im thinking of putting plymouth as my insurance
is it true that only like 60% of first years get halls?

My brother got accom fine, and he had transferred (admittedly it was only like a week after the start.) I'm from Cornwall and everyone from around here chooses Plymouth as a firm or at least an insurance, it attracts a lot more locals, I think that's why.

UCL is ok.

Original post by tillytots

My brother got accom fine, and he had transferred (admittedly it was only like a week after the start.) I'm from Cornwall and everyone from around here chooses Plymouth as a firm or at least an insurance, it attracts a lot more locals, I think that's why.

Ah okay thanks :biggrin:

Reply 54

Picnic1

19

Original post by Rai

Oxford. We're already off for christmas, which is both a good and a bad thing, and we tend to get looked after VERY well by our individual colleges. The college system is great- awesome sense of community you won't get anywhere else... other places have halls that are dotted all around cities, whereas everyone in my year is literally a 2 minute walk away. The teaching's top notch also!

Aren't Cambridge's colleges bound to have just as good a community spirit?
And the way you say it seems to imply that a college system is necessary for a good community spirit. Yet rarely does anyone ever have a bad word to say about Glasgow, for one, which doesn't have a college system. And there are some less ancient universities that have 'college' systems that are just halls of residences with unrelated teaching rooms in them - their sense of 'community' is less meaningful than elsewhere.

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Reply 55

DaniLou17

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Original post by Zottula

We have squirrels at Keele. Lots of. What more could you want?

you only have squirrels ...we have loadsa rabbits, squirrels and badgers !! :biggrin:

Reply 56

LeeLee---x

8

Glasgow because my building must be the only university building to have a commissioned vagina statue outside.

Reply 57

Picnic1

19

I'd like to praise the University of Leicester. It's got some interesting history to it - the poet Phillip Larkin was once a librarian there (before he moved to Hull) and David Attenborough was born in a house on the grounds. The novel Lucky Jim was said to be inspired by it. It's where DNA profiling was invented. It is involved in the UK space centre based in Leicester. It's got a building that is particularly famous in architecture (the Engineering building) although most other buildings are lovely as well (as long as you like some Brutalism included). It's a got a great students union in a building that you need a map to navigate. It's highly rated for Medicine , Maths, Biomedical Sciences. It's got lovely halls of residences and a botanical garden.