Which is better university, De Monfort or Leicester?

I don't think people are trying to upset you, or get at you emznotts.

Having a first in a degree should mean the same no matter which university you go too. However the sad fact is, it doesn't. People judge you on what university you went to. It's what people do.. you can't change that.

I once read an article in the Guardian or Independant (I can't remember which now). However, it said that some employers nowadays would rather have someone from Oxford with a 2:2 than someone from an old Poly with a 1:1 in the same degree!!

It's extremely pooey, but it's the truth. The university of Leicester is i'm afraid seen as one of the 'better' universities.

well i dont really care because at the end of the day DMU suits my personality and its right for me. plus im not the brain of britian so its fine. i just cant stand people who think there better than everone just because they've got A's and B's at A levels and are now going to some excellent univerisity. i am not selling my self short im doing what is right for me

people are saying on here that a first degree at one uni is the same as another. But actually every uni sets it's own papers, and marks it's own papers, so every degree is different. An oxford degree is way harder to do than say................. a Southampton one, or any other uni actually. So which uni you go to is very important, unlike A levels there isn't an independent board which marks papers.
Leicester is a better reputable university, and people will be coming out with better degrees, but thats not to say that the people in leicester are better people than the people in DMU!!! (and i'm a leicester student!!!)

External examination - heard of it? Guess not. As you don't know about degree level assessment procedures I think it is highly questionable that you really know anything about relative standards between institutions. Don't guess and pretend that it is fact. It's a shame you don't even know how your degree is assessed.

External examination - heard of it? Guess not. As you don't know about degree level assessment procedures I think it is highly questionable that you really know anything about relative standards between institutions. Don't guess and pretend that it is fact. It's a shame you don't even know how your degree is assessed.

So does everyone take the same papers? Or are all university exams marked outside of the uni? How DOES it work? I'm ashamed to say I don't know either, but it would be pretty interesting to find out

External examination - heard of it? Guess not. As you don't know about degree level assessment procedures I think it is highly questionable that you really know anything about relative standards between institutions. Don't guess and pretend that it is fact. It's a shame you don't even know how your degree is assessed.

ermm...DMU have been known to reduce the grade boundaries in some subjects so that more people pass...

Yeh ok i put my hands up to that one, i was wrong, and yeh i haven't started my degree yet. But my point is, is that universities set their own papers, so doesn't that make papers easier or harder than others??? Meaning that an oxford/cambridge paper will be harder than others???

So basically a law exam in leicester will be harder than a law exam in DMU,

Am i right?? or just showing my inexperience???

And thanks for the lovely reply chemistboy i appreciate it

In 2005 the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain placed De Montfort "on probation" after investigating allegations of "marking irregularities".


It returned to the university this year, finding "substantial progress" and that "assessment procedures were appropriate".


Examiners were now "in no doubt standards were being maintained and were comparable to those elsewhere in the sector", the society said.

"i got kicked out of school at 15 and ive had to work my ass off as colllege to achieve my gcse's and A levels which im very proud of because most people in my position had babies and claim job seekers allowance."

Now I don't mean to sound too harsh here, but you can't place your own (bad) decisions in life and expect that as a justification in the context of this discussion - we are all in control of our own actions. And besides, its irrelevant to what you were trying to prove?

As someone else touched upon, the sad fact of the day is that reputation does matter to a certain extent. Its crazy to equate a degree from say York or Nottingham to one from Thames Valley University. The same is so from Leicester University and DMU. Sorry.