University of Exeter (Penryn Campus) or Nottingham University for Business/Management

Ok so i missed my Exeter offer by 5 points, needed 36 got 31 Exeter can't unfortunately offer me a place at Main Campus doing Business and Management at the Business School in Streatham but can offer me a place on the new BSc Business course in the much smaller Penryn Campus in cornwall (4000 students & shared with Falmouth Uni) However Nottingham my insurance will offer me a place with them for Management at their main business school, no problems. Has anyone had any experience of The Exeter Penryn Campus compared to main campus? Or the Business BSc Program at Penryn? Should I accept Exeter at the Penryn Campus or accept Nottingham? Thanks!

Missing your offer by 5 points is quite a serious thing! Jesus, not even Oxford Brookes would take you in with 31. I would take what ever offer you get.

Thanks for the positive thoughts.

Nottingham is much better than Exeter anyway! Blessing in disguise IMO

Do some research on Penryn. I did so once I received an offer and decided I didn't want to be in the middle of nowhere (literally).

I would be very wary of courses at 'secondary' campuses such as Penryn. Facilities might not be as good and the lecturers will probably be different.

Nottingham is a very good university.

Nottingham is much better than Exeter anyway! Blessing in disguise IMO

Exeter is much better than Nottingham for Business , and the fact that Exeter said no, and Notts said sure, is an indication as well.

Yeah the facilities at Penryn are pretty poor. I too think Nottingham is good. Where did you decide to go to in the end?

This is also my thinking. Did anything else come out of your research? Where do you go now?

Sure:
-Exeter is one of only 4 Universities in England with all Business courses ranked in the top ten.
-the students entering have higher A level grades than Notts (50% of all AAA students now apply to Exeter)
-Exeter students perform better in the Company business competitions etc.
- The Exeter business school is hot now, and companies are offering Exeter students great placements and jobs now. For example, Microsoft selected An Exeter student as intern of the year out of 125 interns for this year.

Etc.

This is incredibly biased, and I'm sure you could take some very equally glossy exciting facts from the Nottingham website too

For example, Nottingham is the most targeted university by employers etc.... I'm sure every university can reel off stats or facts that work in their favour, you've just got to see past the glossy sales pitch and look at them both unbiasedly - a good place to start would be unistats, have a look at the number of 1sts/2:1s from each course, the average starting salary, student satisfaction etc


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I'm at the Penryn Campus for Politics, I know for my course that Penryn is ranked better than main campus due to smaller classes so we get more one on one time and help with stuff. It's not quite in the middle of nowhere, it's a 2 minute walk to the village of Penryn. Anyway, if a city appeals to you like Nottingham, it won't be the place for you. Make sure to look at the course outlines and see which one suits you the best when picking as that is most important as you have to spend 3 years studying that course. If you have any questions about the Penryn Campus, you can send me a PM

You will always have an asterisk over your degree, though. People know Penryn is for people who weren't good enough for Streatham, which you can downplay by mentioning smaller class sizes, but it's the truth.

There isn't anything on the degree certificate which differentiates the two, it just says that you graduates from the University of Exeter. That's not often the case, I personally could have gone to either but chose Penryn as I wanted a small/ quiet place. Also at Penryn, there is a higher percentage of people getting 2.1s or above than at main campus.