University of Sheffield vs University of Nottingham for Aerospace Engineering?

I have received offers from both Sheffield and Nottingham to do this course. Sheffield have requested AAA where as Nottingham have provided an unconditional if I put it as my firm choice otherwise AAA. I was wondering if people could tell me their opinions/experiences and any information on each university, including the city life, accommodation, student life, night life, the teaching of the course etc.

Ignore the unconditional aspect. It's a marketing tactic that benefits the university more than the student. Only firm that university if you prefer it, nevermind the offer conditions.

Have you visited both universities? And which course do you prefer?



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Nottingham's aero course is very new, hence the unconditional as they're trying to build up their cohort size. Due to the interdisciplinary nature of aero I would say it's risky to start a course before at least the first cohort has graduated as there won't have been much time for the course to mature otherwise which can lead to lots of poor communication between departments so lots of overlapping topics, deadlines, amongst other mismatches, and Notts course is in its second year I believe so two more years to go before it gets to that point. That said, it won't be a massive problem, your degree will still be absolutely fine.

I would decide based upon the course, Notts is more traditional aero whereas Sheffield is more general (though still covers everything that Notts course does, or for some specialist topics at least provides you a solid foundation to learn further from). Sheffield will give you the opportunity to get involved with things like robotics, machine learning, manufacturing whereas those opportunities won't be as available to you at Notts.

Their city life is pretty similar, it would be difficult to differentiate between the two based on that.