The most over and underrated unis?

lol, they're shooting themselves in the foot son. If you get AAA from Ox and A*AA from their pretenders you're not even going to be insuring durham.

With Universities so oversubscribed, a lot of universities, particularly high ranking ones such as Durham will still get a lot of applicants.

Anyway, your point is moot - If someone got an AAA offer from Oxford, then even if Durham's offer was AAB, if the person failed to get into Oxford, why would Durham want someone with AAB when they could get someone with A*AA? And if Durham were asking for BBB, I doubt someone applying to Oxford would consider them. Universities don't compete for the number of people who list them as insurances, they compete for the best candidates.

lol, they're shooting themselves in the foot son. If you get AAA from Ox and A*AA from their pretenders you're not even going to be insuring durham.

Overrated - Brunel, Manchester
Underrated -Hull, Lancaster, Keele

If Lancaster was rated any higher, it'd be closing the gap on oxbridge.

Oxbridge, Leeds, Exeter = Over rated.

Nottingham and University of East Anglia = Under rated.

you missed my point. Unless someone is intent on not applying to oxbridge, the A*AA offer from Durham means that in an ideal situation Durham is unlikely to be the firm/insurance if the applicant gets five offers. its unadvisable,but many students have firm; A*AA and insurance; AAA

I used to think that Oxbridge was over-rated until I was in the library until 2:30AM in Freshers' Week.

Judging from the experiences of my friends who go to other top-tier universities, I can honestly say that they do not have anywhere near the same amount of work.

Judging from the experiences of my friends who go to other top-tier universities, I can honestly say that they do not have anywhere near the same amount of work.

Yea but the amount of work set done mean that it's better.
Other university have just as good resources.
Also at other university lectures are teach what they study, they are passionate about they do, so there teaching can be better. Many at oxbridge are told what to teach in a broader subject rather then what they specialise in. Oxbridge loose staff to other universities, making them better.

I will concede that it does not necessarily make the university better but it does mean that Oxbridge students work exceedingly hard for their degrees.

Other universities do not have just as good resources; the money pumped into Oxford and Cambridge is staggering. That is not to say that other universities in this country do not have world class facilities, but these two institutions have them across the board and not just in one or two areas.

I think that you would be hard pressed to find an institution which allows academics to exclusively teach what their specialism is, especially considering the fact that those specialisms are often so narrow and advanced that it would be nothing short of counter-productive to try and teach them to undergraduates. I think you will find that Oxbridge academics teach within their broad area of research, as I would imagine is the same for other universities.

And please, it would be absolute fallacy to contest that Oxbridge academics are less passionate than those at other universities. Of course there are going to be movements of staff between universities, but I highly doubt that it's due to the style of undergraduate teaching.

I grave take exception to this.

Apart from the fact that all of this is biased, elitist garbage, I should add that I didn't go to Oxbridge and worked myself into the ****ing ground for my degree. It's not only Oxbridge students who actually put the effort in, you know, and my university spent every penny it had on student resources so much so that staff pay was frozen.

Does that make my experience worthless because it wasn't Oxbridge? I should also add that there are many subjects at Oxbridge which are much better taught and much better researched elsewhere; contrary to what people would like to believe, Oxbridge are not the best for every single subject area in the known universe.