hey im yr 13 rn going to do physio at plymouth in september assuming i get the grades!!! i also applied for nottingham and birmingham and oxford brookes (they offered me an interview but i swapped them for another uni jus cos oxford is too close to home for me, otherwise i defo wld have considered it further!)out of ur options, nottingham rejected me... i think they were just oversubscribed as i had 2 lots of work experience and strong personal statement and my predicted was a* a b so it was plently high enough! plymouth were the most like 'active' uni and seemed to put the most care into my application, and clearly put in lots of effort for me to go there. bham didnt get back to till the other week with an offer since my interview in december. i went to a bham like open day/taster lecture the other week and it did seem rlly good, but i dont think the actual courses vary at all with physio. i asked a Question to the lecturer abt the benefits of their 4 yr course and in short he basically said it wasnt any extra benefit unless you want to go into research after u graduate, the NHS is short on physios so basically wherever u go u will get a job later on, so i got the hint that maybe 4 years is a waste of money... however bham was a VERY nice (probs the nicest out of the 3) campus, but the city is not the greatest. plymouth and nottingham campus are mid and i havent personally seen nottinghams city, but out of birmingham and plymouth, pkymouth was by far the prettiest place and i basically instantly wanted to live there!!! if you are into the research element and do want to 4 years but think birmingham may be too big, then plymouth also has a 4 yr course and a 3 yr course, and you can start with the 3 yr course and can transition to the 4th year if you want to after studying there for a year! Im from near oxford so maybe im biased but i think plymouth and oxford are of a similar size, smaller cities, and oxford is very pretty too, but not beachy so didnt stand out above plymouth!!! but i defo think oxford was a nicer city than bham, but not as nice campus! all courses have the same facilities pretty much, and the physio faciltiies for lots of unis tend to be a but further away (like a bus ride away) from the main campus. the only 2 unis where the physio campus was near/only a short walk from the main campus was in plymouth and birmingham. I hope this helped!!! make sure you contact a main hospital asap if u do wanna do physio cos every uni wants work experience in hospitals but its not easy to get so you have to get in there first!!! good luck for the next year x