Uni for Physics/Astronomy- Durham/Bristol/Warwick/Edinburgh/St Andrew's/Other?

Cambridge have six, the bastards.

aren't they all connected anyway to form MERLIN

we agree at last

nooooooooooooooo...must not agree, must not agree, must not agree.............ermmmm you suck! there! we don't agree!

i do suck indeed

The question is, what?

Finally, I don't know much about Edingburgh or St Andrew's for Physics, but would certainly say they are not in the top5 for the subject. Internationally, they seem quite well known for their names, but in England they are not really considered some of the top unis. Edingburgh is better than St And in my opinion)

For someone who has so many opinions on the subject Ms Hoofbeat has suprisingly little knowledge of the researchers and centres of research excellence in the UK. Perhaps that's something to do with the fact that she isn't even at University yet.

I probably shouldn't have been so snotty but I get fed up with people who know nothing about Scottish universities dismissing them because they're not in England. The sheer bloody arrogance is astounding - and I speak as a proud Englishwoman who went to a Scottish university on the advice of a Welshman!

Perhaps when £3000 fees are payable in England the benefits of the Scottish system will be more widely appreciated.

Don't worry about it, she also said exeter wasn't a good place to do physics, despite having a 5 rating and two FRS's in the department! I'm also an english graduate of a scottish university (well my gran was a scot) , but I don't take advice from welshmen.

I was under the impression that on one of the ratings, all that was being measured was the uni's ability to meet criterial/expectations that it sets for most of the points and hence why very few uni's score really low scores. If the uni's play the system they end up with good scores in these examinations.

You're thinking of the Teaching Quality Assessment rating, in which a score is given out of 24. The 5 rating is for Research.

Exeter requires very low grades to get into

But it also has a high drop out rate. It is a very good department for research with some of the top physicists in the country researching there - exposure to this level of research is critical in providing a good physics degree.

how is a high drop out rate good?

Finally, I don't know much about Edingburgh or St Andrew's for Physics....

I didn't say it was good, but it shows that the degree is not that easy.