Children’s Nursing

University ranking doesn't mean **** when it comes to courses like nursing.

Visit the universities you're interested in, get a feel for the place, speak to current students and staff and see if you like it.

well it does mean ****. it means **** for every course. you may argue it means more for nursing, because you need to look into things like, employment percentage rates after graduating.

The NMC regulate the outcomes of every pre-registration nursing course in the UK to ensure content covered is consistent to produce newly qualified nurses with the same ability across the country. When interviewing newly qualified nurses employers don't care where students have trained and often don't even care about grades. What they are interested in, is that you are interested in their area of practice and that you come across in the interviews like you will have the ability to cope as an NQ nurse in their department/ward etc.

There is a shortage of registered nurses currently, you could qualify with a poor grade from somewhere regarded as a poor university and still not struggle to find work on qualifying.

In the end, it's better to find a university you're comfortable at, you're going to be living there for at least three years, rather than going somewhere you end up having a miserable existence at purely because it's at the top of some sort of league table.