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Lower ranked Universities that look promising

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Reply 120

Emmy1102

FusterCluck

I'm at Northumbria and I reckon that it's certainly a contender.

Any others?

Notts Trent! No doubt about it :smile:

Reply 121

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King4eva

lol , surrey wasnt a poly.

EDIT: o **** it was

haha i thought that too :p:

i wonder if any ex poly haters are at surrey lmao

Reply 122

The_Lonely_Goatherd

FusterCluck

I'm at Northumbria and I reckon that it's certainly a contender.

Any others?

Oxford Brookes :smile:

Reply 123

xzoe18x

FusterCluck

I'm at Northumbria and I reckon that it's certainly a contender.

Any others?

Nottingham Trent!

Reply 124

x.Crystal.x

King4eva

notts trent

Emmy1102

Notts Trent! No doubt about it :smile:

xzoe18x

Nottingham Trent!

Hell yeahs!
As voted the best post 1992 university! :biggrin:

Reply 125

Tsukuyomi

FusterCluck

I'm at Northumbria and I reckon that it's certainly a contender.

Any others?

probably nottingham trent, hull, kent and oxford brookes

Reply 126

Waterjames

FusterCluck

I'm at Northumbria and I reckon that it's certainly a contender.

Any others?

bournemouth!!!

Reply 127

Joel4fun4u

Tsukuyomi

probably nottingham trent, hull, kent and oxford brookes

Neither Hull or Kent are ex poly's.

Reply 128

james_dow

Tsukuyomi

probably nottingham trent, hull, kent and oxford brookes

Hull isnt an ex-poly.

Reply 129

Aphotic Cosmos

Tsukuyomi

probably nottingham trent, hull, kent and oxford brookes

Hull and Kent are both respectable plate-glass universities?

The other two are good candidates for good ex-polys, though. A lot of it is down to the course - some ex-polys offer courses that are ranked in the top echelons of the country. Aside from OB and NT, Bournemouth, Plymouth, UWE and Northumbria are all pretty damn decent.

Reply 130

Joel4fun4u

Aphotic Cosmos

Kent is plate glass and Hull is red brick.

Reply 131

Aphotic Cosmos

Joel4fun4u

Kent is plate glass and Hull is red brick.

1927 founded, 1954 university status. I'd say it could be described as either.

Reply 132

james_dow

Aphotic Cosmos

1927 founded, 1954 university status. I'd say it could be described as either.

meh hull is reffered to as a redbrick in the same way Leicster can be plus plate glass: one of the several universities founded in the United Kingdom in the 1960s

Reply 133

CasinoBrawl

FusterCluck

I'm at Northumbria and I reckon that it's certainly a contender.

Any others?

Oxford Brookes, probably. I've got three or four friends there now and apparently it's really good.

Reply 134

Blooroo

james_dow

meh hull is reffered to as a redbrick in the same way Leicster can be plus plate glass: one of the several universities founded in the United Kingdom in the 1960s

I thought the term "red brick" was reserved for 6 universities: Liverpool (the original), Bristol, Birmingham, Leeds, Sheffield, and Manchester (though I'm not sure now what Manchester is classed as...).

Various universities fall into an ambiguous realm of being younger than the proper redbricks, but older than the plateglass universities (Reading, Newcastle, I guess Hull etc).

I don't think a university with a 1954 chartership can be called "red brick" since redbricks emerged from around 1900-1910, as the first wave of new universities that post-date the so-called "ancients" (Oxford, Cambridge, St Andrews, Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Glasgow, and perhaps Dublin).

Reply 135

ooehsdxb

FusterCluck

I'm at Northumbria and I reckon that it's certainly a contender.

Any others?

Loughborough?

Reply 136

Blooroo

T. Hereford

Who said KCL was bad? :confused:

I thought KCL has been always regarded as an excellent and prestigous university.

If by "prestige" posters simply mean league table position, then KCL is the underdog, insofar as it is consistently beneath ICL, UCL & LSE (who have always been in the "top 10" off all general league tables, bar once occasin where UCL popped out to 11th or something). I think KCL is lumped together with the other good universities that jostle for attention outside of the G5 (Bristol, Durham, Edinburgh, St Andrews, York, etc)

Reply 137

Blooroo

flugestuge

It is generally regarded as significantly inferior to LSE, Imperial and UCL.
However, as I posted earlier, it is reasonable for a couple of subjects like Law and War Studies.
Therefore, it is well worth applying for if your marks are not at Oxbridge, LSE, Imperial or UCL levels.

From what I gather, KCL is particularly strong in medicine, with an incredibly famous institute of psychiatry.

As I said in my previous post, I think KCL is basically in the group that may be considered as an alternative to the G5.