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Reply 20
President_Ben
If you're a top performing student, DBS will probably feel a bit disappointing when you consider the quality of employment opportunities available from other Business Schools or Universities with significant links to the City in Europe (LBS, CASS, LSE, Said Business School etc)
When you're an international student, you've got to look at the USA too - at which point, DBS is seriously looking like a near nobody.
If you're a top performing student, DBS will probably feel a bit disappointing when you consider the quality of employment opportunities available from other Business Schools or Universities with significant links to the City in Europe (LBS, CASS, LSE, Said Business School etc)
When you're an international student, you've got to look at the USA too - at which point, DBS is seriously looking like a near nobody.
well nicely put
Reply 22
posh_git
iirc DBS kicks CASS and Said Business School's asses! They are only just behind LBS i believe...Give me time to prove my case....
Could give you a few decades to prove that case and you'd probably slump.
If you want a megabucks City job, CASS and Said are decent choices. And no one is just behind LBS on this side of the pond. It's a situation so heavily driven by winner-take-all features.
Reply 25
I think there are issues with too many people on the undergraduate course at Queens, and that they are far to lenient with the entry grades.
I know many who got in ith BCD...whereas my offer was ABB and I got AAB...which is obviously a lot higher, and I think its unfair I had to work so hard whilst others must have lazed around.
also many of these people don't attend lectures anyway...there are almost 300 in our year, but our accoungting lectures (for example) attract about 30 people.
I just feel they use our course as a "cash cow" and again its filled with international students. I can see that international students would be interested in Business degrees (what with China and Asia being a booming economy) but sometimes I think Durham has looked at them with £ signs in their eyes...some of them (though it is a minority) have poor enlgish, and sturggle to understand the lectures anyway, it just seems that Durham didnt really check they are able...as long as they paid their 11 grand or whatever it is.
I feel our course would be a lot better with 200 maximum, or even 150. As at the moment it takes months to get back even formative work, as the staff just cant handle the work load...its no use getting back work from october in march, as your onto different lecture material etc.
They have also cut back on how many essays etc first years do (according to more than one member of staff) to save marking basically, so that means our already 'soft' course is even lazier, which sounds fun in the short term, but at times you can actually be bored due to no work. Again this wouldent happen if they had less work to mark, they'd still set essays.
Rant over, But i just feel Durham does itself no favours with our course, and with a bit more effort (such as checking everyones UCAS forms a bit more stringently) and smaller numbers it would be a lot better degree. They seem too concerned with £'s currently.
I know many who got in ith BCD...whereas my offer was ABB and I got AAB...which is obviously a lot higher, and I think its unfair I had to work so hard whilst others must have lazed around.
also many of these people don't attend lectures anyway...there are almost 300 in our year, but our accoungting lectures (for example) attract about 30 people.
I just feel they use our course as a "cash cow" and again its filled with international students. I can see that international students would be interested in Business degrees (what with China and Asia being a booming economy) but sometimes I think Durham has looked at them with £ signs in their eyes...some of them (though it is a minority) have poor enlgish, and sturggle to understand the lectures anyway, it just seems that Durham didnt really check they are able...as long as they paid their 11 grand or whatever it is.
I feel our course would be a lot better with 200 maximum, or even 150. As at the moment it takes months to get back even formative work, as the staff just cant handle the work load...its no use getting back work from october in march, as your onto different lecture material etc.
They have also cut back on how many essays etc first years do (according to more than one member of staff) to save marking basically, so that means our already 'soft' course is even lazier, which sounds fun in the short term, but at times you can actually be bored due to no work. Again this wouldent happen if they had less work to mark, they'd still set essays.
Rant over, But i just feel Durham does itself no favours with our course, and with a bit more effort (such as checking everyones UCAS forms a bit more stringently) and smaller numbers it would be a lot better degree. They seem too concerned with £'s currently.
Reply 29
Nothing wrong with the business school at all.
My g/f is in business finance 3rd year. Most business students here at QC are kinda lazy but the teaching etc is fine.
My gf has also landed a top job with an investment bank, starting on £30k+ so there's obviously nothing wrong with employability.
Also I know the Durham MBA is very highly rated.
My g/f is in business finance 3rd year. Most business students here at QC are kinda lazy but the teaching etc is fine.
My gf has also landed a top job with an investment bank, starting on £30k+ so there's obviously nothing wrong with employability.
Also I know the Durham MBA is very highly rated.
Money is important to all business schools. After all, they teach you the art and science of how to become rich. All top business schools care about money because without it they can’t recruit the best teachers, provide superb facilities etc. In fact, the more prestigious the school is, the more expensive their programs are. Now talk about cash cows.
I don’t understand why there is inherent racism towards Chinese students. How do you determine that these Chinese students are not smarter than you or I? Is it based on their language skills? What basis do you have for that? These remarks are extremely immature. Education is about accessibility too.
In most cases, the reputation of business schools is established from its graduate/research courses and not from its undergrad courses. Given this, Durham's reputation according to its accreditation and world-wide rankings is considered a very good business school. Once again, it’s not as elite as Judge (Cam) or Said (Oxford) but it’s definitely not poor either.
I don’t understand why there is inherent racism towards Chinese students. How do you determine that these Chinese students are not smarter than you or I? Is it based on their language skills? What basis do you have for that? These remarks are extremely immature. Education is about accessibility too.
In most cases, the reputation of business schools is established from its graduate/research courses and not from its undergrad courses. Given this, Durham's reputation according to its accreditation and world-wide rankings is considered a very good business school. Once again, it’s not as elite as Judge (Cam) or Said (Oxford) but it’s definitely not poor either.
Reply 31
posh_git
hmmmm ok maybe i remembered wrongly...
DBS still beats Tanaka though...
DBS still beats Tanaka though...
Tanaka is an odd one. Riding off the reputation of Imperial quite hard.
Davidelmo
Nothing wrong with the business school at all.
My g/f is in business finance 3rd year. Most business students here at QC are kinda lazy but the teaching etc is fine.
My gf has also landed a top job with an investment bank, starting on £30k+ so there's obviously nothing wrong with employability.
Also I know the Durham MBA is very highly rated.
My g/f is in business finance 3rd year. Most business students here at QC are kinda lazy but the teaching etc is fine.
My gf has also landed a top job with an investment bank, starting on £30k+ so there's obviously nothing wrong with employability.
Also I know the Durham MBA is very highly rated.
Exception, not the rule. Also, front or back?
I don’t understand why there is inherent racism towards Chinese students. How do you determine that these Chinese students are not smarter than you or I? Is it based on their language skills? What basis do you have for that? These remarks are extremely immature. Education is about accessibility too.
For some reason, Chinese students across the UK seem to dominate the population in certain courses... but contribute to the uni "not as much" and while performing academically... don't seem to have it in employability.
Judge is not on the level of Said. LBS rules them all
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