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Bath vs Loughborough vs Liverpool for robotics

Hi! Does anyone which uni is better in terms of employability and engineering in general?
Hey! I'm going to speak on bath rather than loughborough (hopefully someone will reply for the latter's side) as i'm going there in sept and have done extensive research on it:

Hey! I'm going to bath for econ this year (was meant to go last year but ended up taking a gap year and doing an internship), and figured I might as well quote some stats/info to help put your mind at ease, as I'm assuming that you've not had the time to do extensive research on bath. Employability is fantastic all round, but my comments are on finance specifically (i've copied and pasted this from another reply i made)

Rankings (I know general rankings aren't the holy grail ofc, and their criteria places preference to unis in large cities that focus on research, especially in international rankings, rather than course quality, but they do have some use to an extent):

CUG: 8th
Guardian: 6th
Sunday Times: 8th
Guardian for career prospects: 5th
QS World: 148th (top 10%)
CUG for mech eng : 5th (lboro 13th) chem eng: 4th (lboro 11th) electrical eng: 13th (lboro 19th)

Was Sunday Times University of the Year 2012 & 2023 (Bath and Oxford are the only two unis to receive this award twice btw)

Daily Mail University of the Year for Graduate Jobs 2024

One of only 8 universities to have never left the top 15 ranking across CUG, Guardian and Sunday Times (other than oxbridge, lse, ucl, imperial, st andrews, warwick) for 10 years

Bath's academic USP is its placement program (2/3 students go on a placement year), and it has the best placement program in the country (as they know how important it is to build tangible experience as early as possible)


To relieve any qualms about graduate prospects:

I've worked as a finance/consulting intern at an established mid-tier firm, and whenever I told a colleague/director/MD/partner that I was going to bath in sept, I was always met with "congratulations that's a top uni, produces a lot of strong grads that go into finance" or comments to that effect

Go onto linkedin and look for analysts/associates that work in finance/consulting, and you'll see a plethora that work in bulge bracket banks and top financial firms (GS,JPM,MS,UBS, HSBC, Barclays, Big 4, MBB etc)

Do any related searches on bath grad employability / finance reputation / bath for finance careers etc, and you'll see dozens of articles with bath are some of the most sought after for grads (after the G5 and warwick ofc)


TLDR: from what I've seen, bath clears, but lboro is not a bad option by any means

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