I am just highlighting that even a 'general bachelors at Oxford plus a specialised postgrad from a Big City universitity' is better than a 'specialist bachelors from Imperial' for anyone worried about specialisation.
No one with ambition should choose Imperial over Oxford for any course.
What's silly about the argument? Everything written on that reply is near enough fact, the only real point of argument is whether Oxford have an alum more significant than Gandhi.
Gervais, Nolan, Cold Play, Penrose, Koizumi are all alive. Even the person who created League Tables (Harvey Goldstein) went to UCL.
You have a Hawking, some politicians - most of which aren't considered highly during their time, and Emma Watson, who, by your definition doesn't count, since she's a drop out and you said "graduates"
You've already been told by people how silly you're being by placing Oxford as the be all and all, so now you've restored to being fickle, by changing it to alumni, to which you still can't provide an actual argument - resorting to brief answers that really don't adequately defend your viewpoint.
Gervais and co are better alumni than Prime Ministers and co?
"By my definition"? What definition did you see me give on alumni?
Sorry, but I don't waste my time with the severely intellectually challenged when I can see it.
when people want to go into engineering, don't they often do physics or maths for their undergrad degree and then do a masters in engineering?
Not usually. The vast majority of students aspiring to be engineers will do an undergrad engineering course (BEng), and many (most?) of them will stay on and complete their MEng.
It's certainly possible to do an engineering MSc after a physics or maths undergrad but it's not that common a route.