Vet Edinburgh or Glasgow?

Hi there! I’m currently trying to decide between Edinburgh and Glasgow for veterinary studies and would love some advice. If any alumni, current vet students, or anyone with experience could share why you chose one of these universities, I’d really appreciate it! I’m finding it a bit tough to decide and would really value your insights 🙂 (esp about teaching staff/teaching style (does system-based and spiral learning really differ a lot)/facilities/student life/career prospects). Thank you so much!

I can’t help you on the why one rather than another as they are both great schools but there is a difference between system based and spiral based courses that is significant . NO one is not better than another globally but one will be easier for you. Which one very much depends on your learning style. Do you prefer learning just about everything on a subject and being totally immersed ( system based) or do you prefer laying the foundations of several subjects and then coming back later and adding blocks ( spiral)? Both systems have their advantages and disadvantages. If you do system based you have to be 100% invested in the topic and although you will obviously come back to it later because everything is interlinked, all the essentials will be treated in one block. With spiral you build on knowledge acquired in previous terms and years, BUT at exam time you can not revise exclusively the current year topics. You have to be up to speed on everything that came before.
Only you know which system corresponds with how you work best.

@Euapp , couId you please provide some clarification on which uni follows which course structure? I know that Glasgow follows a spiral based course, does Edi follow a system based course?

Sorry, I thought you were saying that Edi was system based whilst Glasgow was spiral, so I was just pointing out the difference in approach concerning each format. Unfortunately Edinburgh doesn’t really publish much on its way of teaching, just saying that it is tradition its methods and that the first 2 years are dedicated to the learning of core scientific aspects of veterinary medicine. You would need to speak to a current student to find out what this really means.
Unfortunately, I can’t help you much on that front as outside of the general application process I haven’t studied the particularities of the Scottish schools.
Best of luck in choosing!

Hi there! I’m currently trying to decide between Edinburgh and Glasgow for veterinary studies and would love some advice. If any alumni, current vet students, or anyone with experience could share why you chose one of these universities, I’d really appreciate it! I’m finding it a bit tough to decide and would really value your insights 🙂 (esp about teaching staff/teaching style (does system-based and spiral learning really differ a lot)/facilities/student life/career prospects). Thank you so much!

I can’t help you on the why one rather than another as they are both great schools but there is a difference between system based and spiral based courses that is significant . NO one is not better than another globally but one will be easier for you. Which one very much depends on your learning style. Do you prefer learning just about everything on a subject and being totally immersed ( system based) or do you prefer laying the foundations of several subjects and then coming back later and adding blocks ( spiral)? Both systems have their advantages and disadvantages. If you do system based you have to be 100% invested in the topic and although you will obviously come back to it later because everything is interlinked, all the essentials will be treated in one block. With spiral you build on knowledge acquired in previous terms and years, BUT at exam time you can not revise exclusively the current year topics. You have to be up to speed on everything that came before.
Only you know which system corresponds with how you work best.

@jcyee would you happen to know the systems that they each follow?

Hii! I am honestly not quite sure but if I remember correctly, during their admission talk, Edinburgh mentioned they go by a kind of system based learning model, where they focus on specific groups of animals, e.g. small animal. But I am extremely unsure about this (please take this with a mountain of salt ) I will double check sorry!

Hii! I am honestly not quite sure but if I remember correctly, during their admission talk, Edinburgh mentioned they go by a kind of system based learning model, where they focus on specific groups of animals, e.g. small animal. But I am extremely unsure about this (please take this with a mountain of salt ) I will double check sorry!