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Best College for Economics in Cambridge

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Does anyone have a clue what college this is? Thanks.

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Does anyone have a clue what college this is? Thanks.

Trinity. Best college for everything.

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LH

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Does anyone have a clue what college this is? Thanks.

Remember that a degree from Cmabridge is brilliant no matter which college you get it from and so it may be wise to apply to a less competetive college.

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edwardbrooks

economics supervisions tend to be mixed anyway, i.e. if u r from corpus, you may have supervisions with a supervisor from christ's. lectures are also faculty based. so colleges don't matter as much, applying to less competitive colleges for econ could be a good strategy!

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J.S.

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Remember that a degree from Cmabridge is brilliant no matter which college you get it from and so it may be wise to apply to a less competetive college.

ahh but that depends on the extent of your ambition. For good reason most people are happy in just getting in, not everybody however.

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chrisbphd

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Christ's is the most academic college in Cambridge, and it also has a great location.

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Helenia

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Depends if academic excellence is all you want though....

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thinktwice

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Trinity. Best college for everything.

I agree with you.Trinity is world famous.
I will choose Trinity 2 years later~~~~~

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MadNatSci

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I agree with you.Trinity is world famous.
I will choose Trinity 2 years later~~~~~

Fame means nothing. The fact that they are able to throw money at you, however, would be a good argument in their favour. At the end of the day though - it doesn't matter what college it is. You'll have a degree from Cambridge, which is all the employers are interested in.

And may I just point out, to all those of you who think that Trinity must be the best academically, that Prince Charles went there.

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J.S.

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MadNatSci

Fame means nothing. The fact that they are able to throw money at you, however, would be a good argument in their favour. At the end of the day though - it doesn't matter what college it is. You'll have a degree from Cambridge, which is all the employers are interested in.

And may I just point out, to all those of you who think that Trinity must be the best academically, that Prince Charles went there.

I do agree that the degree is worth a great deal whichever college you're placed at, and that overall it's proberbly better actually going there and seeing if you're likely to fit in rather than choosing on the basis of prestige.

However, it's not true saying that prestige within Cambridge does not matter. I had a good friend at LSE, due to having gotten one of the highest firsts at the university he had a great deal of choice available in where to go as a postgrad. He paid a good deal of attention on which of the respective colleges he ought to apply for, especially on prestige, even though as a postgrad the teaching doesnt even take place there! Perhaps it's just an ego thing. Basically, if you're in that kind of position, where entry is just an application form away (hardly ever the case for an aspiring undergrad, as sooo many people have straight A's), you're quite likely to go for greatest prestige...

It's certainly fair to say that both Oxford and Cambridge are intellectually dominated by a handful of colleges. Think about it, Trinity has more than HALF of the entire University of Cambridge's Nobel Prizes! Also, Christ Church Oxford has produced a huge number of British Prime Ministers over the 20th Century, again, probably more than the rest of the university combined. If Oxford and Cambridge (hypothetically) each lost its top 4 colleges, their (rightfully) proud list of globally renowned alumni would be *severly* dented. Although, yes of course I do acknowledge that great thinkers have attended the less well known colleges too.

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J.S.

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jinsisi

I agree with you.Trinity is world famous.
I will choose Trinity 2 years later~~~~~

Confidence is all very well, but why not wait until you've grown out of your diapers :smile:

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thinktwice

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MadNatSci

Fame means nothing. The fact that they are able to throw money at you, however, would be a good argument in their favour. At the end of the day though - it doesn't matter what college it is. You'll have a degree from Cambridge, which is all the employers are interested in.

And may I just point out, to all those of you who think that Trinity must be the best academically, that Prince Charles went there.

Colleges,not the university,are where the power lies.

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thinktwice

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J.S.

Confidence is all very well, but why not wait until you've grown out of your diapers :smile:

Where there is a well,there is a way.To be sucessful in your life,you need focus on the present,with an eye on the future.In China,we always say"You are what you did three years ago." :smile:

Reply 13

kebab22

Truthfully if one is concerned with the academic side of things, prestige and alumni are really not the sort of thing you want to look at. The best performing collleges academically are often the most prestigious ones but again, you go to the same lectures take the same exams which ever college you go to. Getting the most out of an undergraduate education involves many facotrs beyond prestige and alumni, the working enviroment of a college and how it suits you, or the interests of particular academics at certain colleges and how they relate to your own.

But I accpet a degree from trinity looks far better than a degree from say girton on a CV. But i suppose it depends what your in to, if high flying employment oppurtunites are your sole motivation in applying then certainly go for prestige and alumni. But this must be distinguished from those interested in the disciplines themselves in an acamdeic sense.

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