The most 'RAH' universities!!

Funnily enough, not all of the areas are littered counsel (sic) houses. They also have plenty of middle class areas.

The universities are also located in the attractive city centres, with student areas being in wealthy and leafy suburbs.

So a student at Newcastle will go to university in the attractive city centre, travel home to leafy Jesmond (with its expensive houses, bars and restaurants) and have nothing to do with the deprived areas of the city like Elswick or Scotswood. They can go about in their own bubble of wealthy studentdom for three years or more.

Universities like Leeds and Newcastle, traditional universities/rebbricks in major cities will always attract a middle class student body.



A university can be very different to what its city is like demographically. Oxford is, historically at least, a working class city.

Newcastle is the "in" and fashionable city. Good party life, relatively attractive city centre (and university -around the quad particularly). Very popular with Harrow students which isn't suprising. Looks a little like Harrow in my opinion. Because of this it became the "in" university as well. Like Nottingham was 10 years ago, or Manchester before it. Leeds has a similar status.

There will always be this cycle of fashionable cities and, when a city is fashionable, it gets an increase in applications. For universities like Leeds and Newcastle who aready had a strong, middle class student body...

not every student there is middle class/rich. Newcastle does a lot to encourage local kids from state schools. (I'm doing medicine and there are a lot of us from less priveleged backgrounds)

Eh... with the exception of TSR I have never ever heard of the term 'Rah' before

It's a well known stereotype even outside TSR. I was certainly aware of it before starting university (2004). It's a cultural phenomen. Not as famous as chav but still well known enough in higher education circles.

Imperial is Rah? I didn't know that...

no way on Imperial and LSE. And none of the others seems an obvious choice for it. You seem only to be understanding RAH to mean academically prestigious.

Can I just point out most of these universities everyone has mentioned are pretty prestigious. So really it shouldn't matter about the people there but the education you're receiving. All this rah talk is silly. It's snobbery really; which is rather ironic. You're generalising these people. Come on people; we're in the 21st century, class war is a little old fashioned, don't you think?

Personally I don't care about the percentage of rahs at a university, I only care that I'm going to get the very best from my education. There are good and bad of all people. Yes, some public school people are like that but we can't generalise them all. Alot of our best loved celebrities were privately educated. Alot of our great minds are privately educated too. They're not all sporting jack wills and pashminas. And even if they were, would you doubt them any less. It should be about peoples personality, their intelligence, how they act around friends; not what they wear and their social backgrounds.

Sorry if I've offended anyone by this. I was bullied for a long time for apparently being too "posh", so I hate people generalising other people like this. I was only bullied because I had a different accent, imagine if I'd have had all the supposed rah characteristics.

I especially wrote the last line for people like you, because I knew that some idiots have to criticise and argue about this.

THIS IS MY OPINION !!!

What does that mean?

This is my opinion and it is not discriminative or against any other law, so you can't say nothing. Obviously people gonna have different views.

Extremely Rah
Oxford
Cambridge
UCL
Imperial
LSE

Rah
Bristol
Bath
Loughborough
Durham
Exeter
St Andrews

*This is my opinion*

West of Scotland
Glasgow
Aberdeen
Sheffield Hallam
All of these I think?

None of those unis are RAH. The only RAH unis in Scotland are Edinburgh and St. Andrews.

You would be suprised... they both are RAH Unis, and I know a lot of Rah's from Leeds. There are some pretty expensive areas in the suburbs.