rhul or soas?

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soas or rhul?

i was accepted for european studies with a modern language (french, german, spanish, or italian) at royal holloway and politics at school of oriental and african studies. i am interested in knowing which is best for general reputation in the uk and world and also for course.

Reply 1

Phoenix Wright

8

What are you studying?

Reply 2

Vincente

14

Your previous posts state you are looking to study modern languages........If it is anything related with SOAS I would pick it instantly over RHUL. However, you might want to consider campus or city university as well.

Reply 3

Dempy

Come do politics and development studies with me lol!

RHolloway is a great uni, but I think SOAS is better if your interests are in developing countries and Asia and Africa. You can always do a floater in a modern language, or take a night course in one of the African/Asian languages they offer. Such as Farsi, Arabic, Korean, Swahili etc etc. Or if you want a european language, UCL is right next door to SOAS, and they too offer night courses, in comoon ones like French, German, but also in Scandinavian languages, Polish, Russian, Modern Greek, Latin etc.

SOAS has a great reputation in academic circles, and I would say they probably have roughly the same reputation overall, perhaps SOAS is slightly better, I don't know.

Reply 4

paddy

14

Difficult to say. SOAS is the best for what it does in terms of Oriental and African studies, but in terms of general reputation they´re fairly equal.
And I´d advise you to decide which course you´d prefer, they´re two very different programmes of study so it´s important to decide which you would be comfortable studying for 3 or 4 years.

Reply 5

asattar9

Since u chose development studies i presume ure into development.. SOAS is the best place England to study about Asia and Africa..secondly , RHUL doesnt even have a reputation in my part course at RHUL..Alsof the world i.e the subcontinent.. anyway I know several ppl in LSE,QMUL,Kings,etc and they all say rep wise SOAS>>> RHUL .. and also if u go to RHUL ppl will think it was because u had bad grades because they give out offers to everyone/anyone with c'z.. with SOAS u wont get that from anyone..

Reply 6

axisofsymmetry

asattar9

Since u chose development studies i presume ure into development.. SOAS is the best place England to study about Asia and Africa..secondly , RHUL doesnt even have a reputation in my part course at RHUL..Alsof the world i.e the subcontinent.. anyway I know several ppl in LSE,QMUL,Kings,etc and they all say rep wise SOAS>>> RHUL .. and also if u go to RHUL ppl will think it was because u had bad grades because they give out offers to everyone/anyone with c'z.. with SOAS u wont get that from anyone..

I'm going to SOAS this fall and I was accepted to several programes there (4), but that was probably because I applied to the ones with lower grade requirements and I had quite a few programes to choose between even with my grades (IB 30). Last fall when I was applying, for some reason, I though RHUL seemed like a great place to study (I like the green, outside of the city campus), and I was looking at possible courses to apply to there, but there nearly weren't any that I had the grade requirements for. Blah blah, the story goes on, point being: RHUL may or may not have the same reputation as SOAS (it's exclusively subjective anyway), I wouldn't know, but I got into four courses at SOAS with my relatively poor grades, whereas I couldn't even apply to any courses (outside of foundation years) at RHUL :frown:

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Reply 7

Exoskeletal

1

SOAS is amazing for politics.

why not take it joint with an african or asian language?
they're taught really well and it would look great on your CV.
it doesn't matter if you've never studied them before, so long as you've had practice with European languages.

Reply 8

unknown demon

15

Soas no brainer. You'll get a unique degree, uni experience plus all the benefits any other uni of london college can offer you in terms of access to facilities. Plus you say your into development, soas should be your only choice.

Reply 9

asattar9

axisofsymmetry

I'm going to SOAS this fall and I was accepted to several programes there (4), but that was probably because I applied to the ones with lower grade requirements and I had quite a few programes to choose between even with my grades (IB 30). Last fall when I was applying, for some reason, I though RHUL seemed like a great place to study (I like the green, outside of the city campus), and I was looking at possible courses to apply to there, but there nearly weren't any that I had the grade requirements for. Blah blah, the story goes on, point being: RHUL may or may not have the same reputation as SOAS (it's exclusively subjective anyway), I wouldn't know, but I got into four courses at SOAS with my relatively poor grades, whereas I couldn't even apply to any courses (outside of foundation years) at RHUL :frown:

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Which courses did u get in for ..? because I know a few ppl who got rejected for econ,law,etc even though they had 6-7 az at GCSE and ABB at as level (same expected grades for alevels) which are equal to 34 points I believe.
And with RHUL even though the grade requirements are higher they give out offers to ppl with far lesser grades I know a few who had awful grades getting in for econ.. min entry req dont always tell the full picture.

Reply 10

axisofsymmetry

asattar9

Which courses did u get in for ..? because I know a few ppl who got rejected for econ,law,etc even though they had 6-7 az at GCSE and ABB at as level (same expected grades for alevels) which are equal to 34 points I believe.
And with RHUL even though the grade requirements are higher they give out offers to ppl with far lesser grades I know a few who had awful grades getting in for econ.. min entry req dont always tell the full picture.

I got in for Korean, Nepali & History, Tibetan & study of religion, and Nepali & study of religion. So they were all lower requirement courses than all the ones you mentioned, econ, law etc. And actually, what you said makes sense, because the val from my school was rejected from law at SOAS hich astounded me, because while I know it's hard to get into law, she had 44/45 IB points with 4 HL [both she & I applied after getting our IB results].

Also: I wish I had known you could apply for things you didn't have the requirement for. Ho hum. Oh well.

Reply 11

dominiclmorris

I don't know too much about it, but some might say as a specialist institution, SOAS is looked upon as very very good for what it does, whereas RHUL, as a more general institution may be looked upon as a poor mans UCL or Kings. Food for thought.

Reply 12

Kew

16

In terms of general reputation they are pretty well equal; both are excellent academically, and in any case at the end of the day you will end up with a University of London degree regardless of which you choose. You say you're applying for European Studies at RH and Politics at SOAS - two very different subjects - so I'd base your decision principally on which course you would most like to do, rather than any other consideration.

Reply 13

cubes

1

Exoskeletal

SOAS is amazing for politics.

why not take it joint with an african or asian language?
they're taught really well and it would look great on your CV.
it doesn't matter if you've never studied them before, so long as you've had practice with European languages.

Totally off-topic but where is that in your sig? It looks amazing!

Reply 14

Fossi2

I would say that within the UoL SOAS is academically stronger and it is definately much stronger internationally especially in the far east because of its specialism even though it offers a narrower range of subjects.

Reply 15

Hana_1987

1

asattar9

Since u chose development studies i presume ure into development.. SOAS is the best place England to study about Asia and Africa..secondly , RHUL doesnt even have a reputation in my part course at RHUL..Alsof the world i.e the subcontinent.. anyway I know several ppl in LSE,QMUL,Kings,etc and they all say rep wise SOAS>>> RHUL .. and also if u go to RHUL ppl will think it was because u had bad grades because they give out offers to everyone/anyone with c'z.. with SOAS u wont get that from anyone..

Err..when i applied to SOAS a few years ago I was given a BCC offer or 240points I think it was.. and I think they still might for some courses say one grade can be a C.

Plus, the lowest of RHUL's offers is BBB. Everyone on my degree has above BBB deffo!! Lots have AAB from what I know!! One of my friends even did 6 A levels and 2 extension awards.

Reply 16

asattar9

Hana_1987

Err..when i applied to SOAS a few years ago I was given a BCC offer or 240points I think it was.. and I think they still might for some courses say one grade can be a C.

Plus, the lowest of RHUL's offers is BBB. Everyone on my degree has above BBB deffo!! Lots have AAB from what I know!! One of my friends even did 6 A levels and 2 extension awards.

I meant that ppl i know who had CCC,BCC in AS level and ZERO a'z at GCSE ..same expected for Alevels, who got offers for programs which 'require' more or whtever so the minimum entry is infact artificial I dont know what happens if they cant match the offer but still they did get the offers ..anyway they probably gave out the offers because no one else bothered applying there..

I think SOAS has low requirements for languages because obviously not as many ppl apply for japanese,korean,etc compared to Law,Economics,etc

Reply 17

Alexii

12

Japanese with Economics or Politics now requires AAA I think.

Reply 18

Hana_1987

1

To be honest, it depends on what you really want to study and whether you would be happy in a city or campus based uni as someone said.

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