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Yes Birmingham is lovely too but the city isn't meant to be great but hopefully I still like it

I quite like the city. im from nottingham so have been 2 or 3 times there. Like the bull ring shopping centre great transport links from new st station

Yes Birmingham is lovely too but the city isn't meant to be great but hopefully I still like it

I really like the city. Its beautiful walking around the canals and dropping into a pub. Plus Edgbaston is lovely.

The QS academic reputation survey is so reliable

I filled it in this year. I am not (and never have been) an academic. I nominated myself to take part. I chose a subject specialty that I haven’t studied formally since GCSEs.

Anyone with a university email can fill in the QS survey of “academics”.

Really? I know universites game the figures but my understanding had been that it was through paying lots of researchers to get published. Effectively spending the money from overseas students to boost rankings to attract more overseas students.

Hey so I went to a boarding school and what I've discovered is that private schooled students view universities and their worth somewhat differently to state schooled peers who seem to cling to rankings which are too variable in general

1.Oxbridge- obviously the best and super hard to get into
2. Imperial/LSE-Very hard to get into and best in their specific areas
3.UCL/Durham/St Andrews- good all-rounder universities but may be declined for slightly worse universities depending on what you want at Uni- many of Us did not bother with UCL as nobody wanted to be a student in London, all st Andrews is viewed as boring and really remote so had friends choose to go to Exeter or bristol instead.
4. Warwick/ Exeter/Bristol/Edinburgh/KCL/Bath-Here we have a middle ground where most of my peers ended up at, good places but not Amazing. I would put Warwick higher for econ but on the whole, it's no better than the other Uni here in general, KCL also seems to have this prestige just cause its in london but apart form perhaps Law, doing something like Histroy etc is. no better than the other Unis here.
5. Nottingham/Leeds/Manchester/Sheffield/Birmingham- good universities but viewed as not being full of posh southerners and hence we do not tend to apply here
6.Not bothered to right these ones

Yes Birmingham is lovely too but the city isn't meant to be great but hopefully I still like it

I know Birmingham as a city reasonably well having worked there. It is really nice. I dont know why people dont like it. Probably those that havent been there.

I've heard that's it really horrible but it seemed like it was in a nice area of Birmingham. 😂

Birmingham has nice parts to it like Edgbaston where the campus is and grotty parts like Selly Oak where most students live in second and third year. Students like it because it's cheap but if you don't mind spending a bit more money on accommodation, many students live in nicer areas too like Harbourne.

The city centre is really good for shopping and nightlife

UCL is good but just not on LSE level when it comes to areas like Law/Econ/Maths etc LSE is the imperial of the art/social sciences so I would disagree. Durham is defo Oxbridge reject uni, but the requirements to get in are high and so is its academic rigor. Warwick is only really good at Econ/Math doing history/English/Law here is not any better than the others on this list, like Bristol in this tier is better for Law and Engineering than Warwick. Exeter is good and has been climbing the rankings but honestly its no more academic than the others in this tier, it's also significantly worse than say Bristol/bath for engineering and is on par with them for most others. Yh Exeter is known as that but so is Bristol, they have a similar number of private schooled kids at both, nearly a 1/3 at both and similar entry requirements so they're roughly the same tier. You cannot argue in my mind Exeter is Durham/UCL tier.

I absolutely disagree with your rankings. Which criteria did you use to rank these unis? 'Strongest brand' doesn't necessarily mean it is the most academic. Also, undergrads might focus more on low student:staff ratio, student satisfaction, UCAS entry points, etc, whereas postgrads might focus on research output, funding, etc.

Check out the Guardian league table (1st=Cambridge, 2nd=St Andrews, 3rd=Oxford), or the complete uni guide (1st=Cambridge, 2nd=Oxford, 3rd=St Andrews).
https://www.theguardian.com/education/ng-interactive/2019/jun/07/university-league-tables-2020
https://www.thecompleteuniversityguide.co.uk/league-tables/rankings

Thanks. Yh Ive heard selly oak isn't great 😬 hopefully it all turns out good though 🙂

When we was looking at student accommodation for my daughter beyond 1st year, we saw a website called 'accommodation for students' This had houses and also private halls if you want to go that route. birmingham halls were pretty nice

Thanks. Yh Ive heard selly oak isn't great 😬 hopefully it all turns out good though 🙂

Hey so I went to a boarding school and what I've discovered is that private schooled students view universities and their worth somewhat differently to state schooled peers who seem to cling to rankings which are too variable in general

1.Oxbridge- obviously the best and super hard to get into
2. Imperial/LSE-Very hard to get into and best in their specific areas
3.UCL/Durham/St Andrews- good all-rounder universities but may be declined for slightly worse universities depending on what you want at Uni- many of Us did not bother with UCL as nobody wanted to be a student in London, all st Andrews is viewed as boring and really remote so had friends choose to go to Exeter or bristol instead.
4. Warwick/ Exeter/Bristol/Edinburgh/KCL/Bath-Here we have a middle ground where most of my peers ended up at, good places but not Amazing. I would put Warwick higher for econ but on the whole, it's no better than the other Uni here in general, KCL also seems to have this prestige just cause its in london but apart form perhaps Law, doing something like Histroy etc is. no better than the other Unis here.
5. Nottingham/Leeds/Manchester/Sheffield/Birmingham- good universities but viewed as not being full of posh southerners and hence we do not tend to apply here
6.Not bothered to right these ones