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Reply 80
verse
i'm from singapore and my parents have heard of york but not durham.


Well, that's one case. Still rests that neither are well known internationally despite both being thought of highly domestically, especially Durham.

It's well known that they have no international rep and that, on the continent, it's only the cities that will be known rather than the unis. Even that it's only due to their pretty cathedral or minister and the history of both.

We don't need to keep going over this, I'm sure it's of no relevance to the OP, who I hope is closer to a decision.

To help the OP can I just provide a link which is slightly outdated. It probably won't help things: -

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1557913/Top-universities-taking-fewer-poorer-students.html

Right, from this you can see that Durham does have a low intake of state school students (only just over 60% of entire students). It's not as bad as that would suggest. It still has a reasonable number of those from the lower socio-economic backgrounds (17%).

Sorry I've got no figures for York, York won't be as bad although still very affluent. Just please don't think you won't belong at Durham just because you aren't rich. I'll reiterate that Cuth's is one of the more diverse colleges and has a decent local and mature student population. It's really not "full" of toffs.

Having said that, I still feel that York is probably better for you course wise. It's up to you though of course.
River85
That's not suprising if you're American as few UK universities are well known there, not even Cambridge.


Cambridge is well known in the US, since both Harvard and MIT are located there.
However, Cambridge is in Massachusetts, not in the UK. :wink:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge,_Massachusetts
Reply 82
flugestuge
Cambridge is well known in the US, since both Harvard and MIT are located there.
However, Cambridge is in Massachusetts, not in the UK. :wink:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge,_Massachusetts


Yeah sure, I'm aware of Cambridge, MA.

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