rant about kings&#x27; reputation

well it's not top 10, period. I've seen it as low as 30. Depends on your subject, King's is a great place for a prospective lawyer. Still, if you do physics there, for example, you're at a mediocre university in a mediocre department. If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck then maybe it is a duck - people will know that you are just a mediocre physicist because you're surrounded by mediocrity.

Reply 122

kidney thief

i agree with what an earlier poster said about comparing apples and oranges. comparing specialist institutions like SOAS, LSE and imperial with multi faculty uni's like kings and UCL is meaningless

Then we will just compare Kings and UCL.
Verdict: UCL is better.

Reply 123

la fille danse

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well it's not top 10, period.

Top 6, by The Guardian's standards.

Reply 124

brewhaha! that's the same table that puts middlesex 19th :biggrin:

Where is it on the Times table?

Reply 125

morningtheft

Top 6, by The Guardian's standards.

The Guardian has no standards, it has rubbish league tables that border on committing slander. Their criteria favours crap unis :rolleyes:

Reply 126

riccardo

brewhaha! that's the same table that puts middlesex 19th :biggrin:

Where is it on the Times table?

precisely

Reply 127

Yeah, you tell her. Unbelievable!

Reply 128

kidney thief

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ramroff

Then we will just compare Kings and UCL.
Verdict: UCL is better.

depends on the subject

Reply 129

gangrene

OP

well, my subject is safe then!

:p:

so is medicine, dentistry, law, english, history, etc, etc.

Reply 130

Hmm UCL's hardly great. You know they have a skeleton in the entrance hall? That got me running to South Kensington, I got the creeps.

Reply 131

kidney thief

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^^^and also who is doing the judging- e.g. kings has a consistently sound reputation with employers

Reply 132

kidney thief

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riccardo

Hmm UCL's hardly great. You know they have a skeleton in the entrance hall? That got me running to South Kensington, I got the creeps.

that'll be mr.bentham :biggrin:

Reply 133

la fille danse

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riccardo

brewhaha! that's the same table that puts middlesex 19th :biggrin:

Where is it on the Times table?

16th.

You said "it's not top 10, period". If you meant to say "it's not top ten, according to the Times" why didn't you say it?

"Period" implies more than just The Times.

Anybody who judges the worth of a university based on the opinion of one table doesn't deserve to get into a top 50 university, let alone any better.

P.S. Middlesex is 86th according to The Guardian. Don't you think that, perhaps, glancing at a league table before feigning to know all about it would be a sensible idea? Maybe?

Reply 134

morningtheft

16th.

You said "it's not top 10, period". If you meant to say "it's not top ten, according to the Times" why didn't you say it?

"Period" implies more than just The Times.

Anybody who judges the worth of a university based on the opinion of one table doesn't deserve to get into a top 50 university, let alone any better.

P.S. Middlesex is 86th according to The Guardian. Don't you think that, perhaps, glancing at a league table before feigning to know all about it would be a sensible idea? Maybe?

Are you trying to tell us Middlesex is a world class uni, because then I will have to ask you to remain silent :rolleyes:

Reply 135

Hmm. It put it 19th last year as the clearing adverts quoted it "a top 20 university" I didn't mean according to The Times either. I meant that I can easily think of 10 universities which are, beyond argument, better than KCL.

Reply 136

la fille danse

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ramroff

Are you trying to tell us Middlesex is a world class uni, because then I will have to ask you to remain silent :rolleyes:

Wait. How did you get "Middlesex is a world class uni" from "Middlesex is 86th" which is what my post said?

Your leaps in logic are astounding...

Reply 137

morningtheft

Wait. How did you get "Middlesex is a world class uni" from "Middlesex is 86th" which is what my post said?

Your leaps in logic are astounding...

Perhaps you could make yourself a little clearer :rolleyes:

Reply 138

KCL can redeem itself if and only if they manage to steal mr Bentham from UCL.

Reply 139

octanethriller