Which is better for Physics?

UCL is the more prestigious university, but if you like Lancaster's course then go there.

I know starting a university prestige thread on TSR is like opening a can of worms, but I'm struggling to chose between the 3:

Lancaster - Maths and Theoretical physics (A*AA)
KCL - Physics with theoretical physics (AAA/A*AB)
UCL - Medical physics (with a view of swapping to straight physics)(AAB)

Ideally I'd like to go into further study such as PhD (possibly part 3 of the maths tripos at Cambridge, that sort of thing) and therefore the reputation of the department matters, although I've heard numerous different opinions about all of them (Lancaster being awesome and UCL being awful, Lancaster being overrated and UCL being a great place to be etc). I really like the look of the Lancaster course (if you asked me to write out everything I want to do in a theoretical physics course, that would be it), but UCL/KCL would be a lot more convenient (I live near London) and also makes up for the lack of music which is really important to me and seems to be lacking at Lancaster...

Any advice would be very welcome :P

I'd say KCL or Lancaster

You're almost definitely not going to be able to get into Part III Maths at Cambridge without doing 3 years of maths at COIW. You could maybe do Part III Physics or Astrophysics.

You're almost definitely not going to be able to get into Part III Maths at Cambridge without doing 3 years of maths at COIW. You could maybe do Part III Physics or Astrophysics.







Definitely not KCL. For reputation look here KCL isn't even there, Lancs is >100 but UCL is top 50.

what is CIOW do you mean COW?

COWI = Cambridge, Oxford, Warwick and Imperial - arguably the 4 top institutions for maths.

When did Imperial get added?

It's been there for a while I think - its got a pretty good maths course :')

just in maths or maths deriviates too, e.g. stats or computer science

To be honest with you I'm not really the person to ask - try the maths or Imperial forums!

You're almost definitely not going to be able to get into Part III Maths at Cambridge without doing 3 years of maths at COIW. You could maybe do Part III Physics or Astrophysics.

I know starting a university prestige thread on TSR is like opening a can of worms, but I'm struggling to chose between the 3:

Lancaster - Maths and Theoretical physics (A*AA)
KCL - Physics with Theoretical physics (AAA/A*AB)
UCL - Medical physics (with a view of swapping to straight physics)(AAB)

Ideally I'd like to go into further study such as PhD (possibly part 3 of the maths tripos at Cambridge, that sort of thing) and therefore the reputation of the department matters, although I've heard numerous different opinions about all of them (Lancaster being awesome and UCL being awful, Lancaster being overrated and UCL being a great place to be etc). I really like the look of the Lancaster course (if you asked me to write out everything I want to do in a theoretical physics course, that would be it), but UCL/KCL would be a lot more convenient (I live near London) and also makes up for the lack of music which is really important to me and seems to be lacking at Lancaster...

Any advice would be very welcome :P