York or Exeter

I don't know about Economics, but Exeter's a much nicer city The uni is really good and the grounds are brilliant. That's my biased opinion though (I used to live near there) if you prefer York go there.

I have now heard back from all my applications and have narrowed down my firm choice to either York or Exeter, both asking the same grades (AAB). I have not visited either university yet, but plan to do so within the next month.

I would be very interested in people's opinions of the Economics course and university as a whole for these two options. Is there anything that dramatically separates them?

At the moment I am swaying towards York as it has, in my opinion a nicer city, offers a Bsc, and takes a slightly shorter time to get to from London, however, I have yet to make up my mind and was hoping the your comments may help.

I have now heard back from all my applications and have narrowed down my firm choice to either York or Exeter, both asking the same grades (AAB). I have not visited either university yet, but plan to do so within the next month.

I would be very interested in people's opinions of the Economics course and university as a whole for these two options. Is there anything that dramatically separates them?

At the moment I am swaying towards York as it has, in my opinion a nicer city, offers a Bsc, and takes a slightly shorter time to get to from London, however, I have yet to make up my mind and was hoping the your comments may help.

I am surprised Extere made you an AAB offer i.e. "everyone" else seems to have AAA. So is it straight economics?

Yes York has a better rep for econ (although Exeter is on the up). However you should consider geog factors (e.g. 2 hour rule) and if the uni has a campus or not..

Hi guys,

just wanted to get this thread going again because i may be in a similar situation in the near future. i'm applying for straight economics at both unis and they are both my top choices, how would you feel about economics at either of these unis now?

Talk about raising a thread from the dead!

Truth be told, I would now rate the Exeter programme slightly above York's, but in all honesty, they are much of a muchness. Personally I'd probably choose Exeter based on the southern location and warmer climate.

York, however, offers more economic history modules, which is maybe something that appeals to you. Also I feel they offer more relevant empirical finance and asset pricing modules, which personally I'd prefer.

Although Exeter does pride itself on offering the option to study abroad between second and third year, which is something you may want to look into.

Haha! Yeah i know right :L Exeter don't actually offer a BSc, they only offer a BA aswell, which may just work in my favour since I don't really want to do a heavily maths based economics course.

Exeter does have the year in industry/abroad option, I also have found that York give you the option to study abroad for a year now too. It's a tricky one IMO, I havent even got an offer from York so I guess I'd have to wait and see what happens before deciding!