Universties

[Anonymous No.3561643]

University thread? No circlejerking or trying to brag. Highschoolers where are you hoping to go?
Just finishing up my A-Levels (Britfag, 18 though) before hopefully going to university. Can't decide which university to go to if I get the grades.
Bristol/King's/Glasgow/Edinburgh(hate the city though)?
Studying modern languages.
Anybody planning on doing something EXCITING?

[Anonymous No.3561651]

Dropping out.
Not because stupid or anything, I feel modern schooling being mandatory gimps me.

[Anonymous No.3561653]

>>3561651
Doesn't dropping out even though you know it will impose a glass ceiling on you for eternity make you stupid though? I mean, just play the game for a bit longer and you might find the working world easier to progress through if you were to change your mind at a later point.

[Anonymous No.3561658]

If your university can't be found within the top 100, I'm afraid I'll have to ask you to leave the board.

http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/world-university-rankings/2012-13/world-ranking

[Anonymous No.3561666]

If I was in your position I'd go to Bristol, but then that's mainly because I'd want to spend all my time taking drugs with hippies.

[Anonymous No.3561668]

>>3561653
See I was a Physics major, because I enjoyed it. I figured if I did for the knowledge, nice, good on me, worth the 30k. If I did it out of employability, who hires an undergrad Physics majour? there goes another four years on Masters. Of course once you go Masters you have to PHD.

Or I Could just complete a 2 year program in college and be a lab rat for the rest of my days.

What would you pick?

[Anonymous No.3561670]

>>3561668
Neither because I'm not a physics nerd

[Anonymous No.3561672]

>>3561658
Booklet I received for my offer from King's says they are in the world top 30 *QS world University rankings 2012.
Listen, don't be a dick, it doesn't matter what the ranking is. Just don't be a cunt, you are e/lit/ist embodied.
http://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/world-university-rankings/2012

[Anonymous No.3561679]

>>3561666
Yeah that's true. Also, they still have great music out there. All good bass music, hope they still have some kind of trip-hop scene. London and Bristol would both be good for drugs though I imagine.

[Anonymous No.3561680]

>>3561643

You hate the city of Edinburgh? What're you, nuts?

[Anonymous No.3561681]

>>3561679
>London and Bristol would both be good for drugs though I imagine.
This is what sheltered children actually believe.

[Anonymous No.3561683]

>>3561672
>it doesn't matter what the ranking is
Top lel

[Anonymous No.3561684]

i've gave up on uni.

Gonna be a piano player and hopefully go to music school.

[Anonymous No.3561685]

>>3561680
Just wasn't my thing. Bit too old or something, can't really remember why. Also, the people at the university were really rude to me, they were pretty snobby, and so were the kids who I kept hearing. 'Don't mix with anyone in lower accommodation'. Not for me really haha.

[Anonymous No.3561687]

>>3561681
Bigger the city, the better the drugs. In England at least.
>NEETS know nothing

[Anonymous No.3561689]

>>3561685

I'm not denying the people there are assholes, from what I hear it's mostly Oxbridge rejects with a chip on their shoulders.

I just like the city. It's a looker. Still, to each his own.

[Anonymous No.3561691]

>>3561687
>Bigger the city, the more expensive the drugs.
ftfy, sellers market.

[Anonymous No.3561693]

>>3561658
>106
Good enough.

[SF No.3561697]

>>3561693
Only if you study law.

[Anonymous No.3561698]

>>3561693
Why are you accepting his standard? He's an awful person who is wrong.

[Anonymous No.3561701]

>>3561685
Edinburgh is filled with horrible snobs. The city itself is lovely if you stay in the good parts, though, but it has a truly horrible divide between the lovely old architecture and the lower-class poverty-stricken bits.

In terms of ranking it's usually the second-best uni in Scotland in terms of UK rankings (although Glasgow's been catching it up and overtaking it and now they're swapping about with some frequency), with the top spot almost invariably going to St. Andrews. That said, Glasgow's a better city overall.

[Anonymous No.3561703]

>>3561698
>this guy's face when he ctrl+f'd his uni and received 0 results

[Anonymous No.3561704]

>>3561701
>with the top spot almost invariably going to St. Andrews.
If that's true, it's because prince whatsisname went there. It's not a very good university at all.

[Anonymous No.3561709]

>>3561704
It's the oldest in Scotland, I think. You know how this shit goes, generally the older the university the better the ranking. Also, like you said, very high-class connections run through that uni even when the royals aren't explicitly involved.

[Anonymous No.3561719]

If your university can't be found within the top 100, I'm afraid I'll have to ask you to leave the board.

http://www.shanghairanking.com/ARWU2012.html

[Anonymous No.3561721]

>>3561709
There's a reason they're not in the Russell group, and it's because in recent times they haven't been very good at all. The two reasons it's become popular again are having a Prince attend, and golf. Edinburgh as far as I'm aware always ranks considerably above it, Glasgow is better respected for many things too.

[Anonymous No.3561725]

Liverpool.
English Lit
Gonna apply for either the Medieval or Renaissance MSt at Oxford. Either that, or do an MSc in Computer Science. I always wanted check out programming, but I never had the chance. Assuming I choose the latter, I can always swap back to English if it doesn't interest me. I'd love to be a commissioning editor, technical or fiction writer.

[Anonymous No.3561727]

>>3561658

>31

Looks like I'm in the club.

[Anonymous No.3561731]

>>3561719
>suddenly my uni dropped 100 something places
Confirmed for shit ranking

[Anonymous No.3561733]

>>3561681
I don't think I've ever been to Bristol but I know if I went I could get benzos, disassociatives or opiates in under an hour, at mates rates.
They're around in other cities too, but the sellers are less approachable. It's a very "happening" city.
So what are you implying, exactly?

[Anonymous No.3561734]

>>3561733
I thought Bristol was the one for Oxbridge rejects. Or was that Exeter?

[Anonymous No.3561735]

>>3561721
If you study in UK and your university isn't in the Russell group, you're pretty much studying at a non-uni

[Anonymous No.3561738]

>>3561735
What about the 94 group? They have Durham.

[Anonymous No.3561741]

>>3561733
>I don't think I've ever been to Bristol but I know if I went I could get benzos, disassociatives or opiates in under an hour, at mates rates.
>I don't think I've ever been to Bristol
>at mates rates
Ha Ha Oh Wow.

[Anonymous No.3561739]

>>3561721
St Andrews performs pretty poorly compared to other on the world rankings. On UK domestic, though, they're No. 6 on both the Complete University Guide and Guardian rankings. Edinburgh's 16 and 15 respectively on both of those. Glasgow's overtaken Edinburgh on the Guardian ranking at 14, but is 1 behind on the CUG rankings at 17.

[Anonymous No.3561747]

>>3561738
>Durham University, University of Exeter, Queen Mary, University of London and University of York left in 2012. All have now joined the Russell Group.
94 confirmed for old news

[Anonymous No.3561748]

>>3561747
Oh. Well shit. Good thing I'm RG then.

[Anonymous No.3561750]

>>3561734
Anywhere that gives an honorary MA after so many years often has a fair number. Most if not all of the Russell group ones.

[Anonymous No.3561751]

>>3561701

Edinburgh's the only one I've heard of.

[Anonymous No.3561753]

>tfw A*A*A* at A level and still only one offer

Fucking UCAS.

[Anonymous No.3561755]

>>3561753
>blames UCAS because he's not capable of getting some solid rec letters and a decent personal statement
You're dumb

[Anonymous No.3561757]

>>3561734
It might be. It's much harder to get a variety of drugs in Oxbridge, unsurprisingly.

>>3561741
Parroting empty rebuttals doesn't make it any less so.

[Anonymous No.3561766]

>>3561757
>Parroting empty rebuttals doesn't make it any less so.
Basing your views of Bristol on what you saw in Skins doesn't make it more so. To parrot your phrasing, I think I may have been to Bristol, so I think I might possibly know.

[Anonymous No.3561789]

I'm having a delimma, possibly a moral one.
I'm transferring universities and I am now pushed more than ever into declaring a major.
Unfortunately my passions in education fall far from what's actually applicable in the real world.
The math and sciences inevitably lead to a much higher paying entry level job and they are very stable careers.
>should I aim for applicability, further securing my future; or take advantage of this oppurtunity and study something which really makes me come alive.

[Anonymous No.3561793]

I've lived in Glasgow (growing up), Edinburgh (undergraduate), Pennsylvania (US undergraduate exchange) and Oxford (Master's).

That order (descending) pretty much correlates with how easy it was for me to attain drugs* in those cities. Obviously, there are lots of factors are work. I was abroad at UPenn, had a lot of close friends in Edinburgh, and haven't really bothered looking in Oxford.

[Anonymous No.3561796]

>>3561793

*For me, that just meant mandy and pot.

[Anonymous No.3561798]

I'm at the University of Bath, top place.

[Anonymous No.3561801]

>>3561798

I hear Bath's lovely. I don't think I could study in an ugly city.

[Anonymous No.3561809]

>>3561801

Yeah, it's a sweet city, love it here.

The uni takes a knock in the world rankings due to it being mainly science based (maths student here) We were Times Uni of the Year last year.

[Anonymous No.3561816]

>>3561766
That's a good point, basing my view of a place on children's TV doesn't make it so.
But what if I've never seen Skins? What if in the past few years, a large section of my local mash head and crusty mates moved to Bristol?
I think if that was the case, they'd certainly hook me up with a dealer on the rare occasion that they didn't have any to sell themselves.
Basing your views of people on the internet on some stereotype in your head doesn't make it so.
I think you might possibly be an idiot.

[Anonymous No.3561817]

If you don't qualify for the first class honours at a top 100 university, you're basically wasting time and money and are unintelligent

[Anonymous No.3561820]

>>3561801
>>3561809
I find that golf course pretend castle thing annoying, and the student union's weird. Bath itself is great to go out in though. And don't forget the architecture course.

[Anonymous No.3561822]

>>3561753
Your personal statement must have been complete shit.

You also must have been applying for really competitive degrees at popular unis to get that sort of ratio.

[Anonymous No.3561824]

>>3561809

It's funny, international scientific institutions (MIT, Cal' Tech', etc.) consistently rank highly on university lists, but similar places in the UK - like Bath or Heriot Watt - are still looked down upon.

[Anonymous No.3561825]

>>3561789
Do what you're interested in.

[Anonymous No.3561827]

>>3561824
>Heriot Watt

Why are you surprised that a poly is considered second-rate?

[Anonymous No.3561830]

>>3561816
>I think you might possibly be an idiot.
And yet here I am, inside your head, knowing your thinking process before you even think it. How am I doing it? Wooooooohhhhhh.

[Anonymous No.3561831]

>>3561658
99
geology major
I grew up 10 minutes away from New Brunswick and I fucking hate it here, but the education isn't bad and I wouldn't be able to afford anything other than a public state school, so that's that.
At least the drug scene is good. And there are a ton of basement shows which are fun.

[Anonymous No.3561836]

>>3561820

The castle is weird, but I lived next to that golf course in first year, I prefer living in town though.

The Students Union is well run, but they act better than they are, in fact I think the whole university tries to play itself as more upmarket than it really is. Also SU elections have been all this week, so I've been avoiding the main parade.

And yeah, the uni does stuff like architecture, foreign languages, psychology etc

[Anonymous No.3561840]

>>3561836
They were the top in architecture in the UK not long ago, I believe they're still in top 3 for that.

[Anonymous No.3561842]

>>3561719
>>3561658
Why the fuck does Stony Brook rank on these but not Geneseo or Binghamton?

[Anonymous No.3561844]

>>3561643
Computer Science at Glasgow

[Anonymous No.3561849]

>>3561830
I think you should go back to watching Skins, mate.

[Anonymous No.3561870]

>>3561658
>http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/world-university-rankings/2012-13/world-ranking
McMaster Im in!

[Anonymous No.3561881]

>>3561849
I don't think I've ever seen Skins but I know if I did I wouldn't confuse TV and reality

[Anonymous No.3561888]

>>3561870
Are you in a humanities program?

[Anonymous No.3561891]

>>3561889
Is it based on marks and things.

[Anonymous No.3561895]

my uni's ranked 350th!

[Anonymous No.3561897]

Pittsburgh may have an outstanding philosophy department, but it might make more sense for a good student interested in philosophy to do his or her undergraduate work at Johns Hopkins or Amherst, where student-faculty ratios are more favorable, and where there is a stronger focus on undergraduate education. - Philosophical Gourmet

[Anonymous No.3561916]

>>3561658
>implying that's the real list

http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/world-university-rankings/2013/reputation-ranking

[Anonymous No.3561921]

The rankings are totally bullshit.

I'm this guy, >>3561793, and when I spent my third year in Pennsylvania I couldn't believe how low the standard was. Most of my classes were at a lower level than first year literature courses in Edinburgh, though the workload was marginally higher. Most people were just cranking out awful essays on impossibly simple topics, while the 'elite' offerings were invariably feminist or post-colonial. I was, generally speaking, deeply unimpressed by 'Ivy League' undergraduates. Several friends of mine had similar experiences at other American institutions.

The difference between Edinburgh and Oxford isn't generally as marked. In fact, it seems to me that you only really see the difference in the top 2-5% of students. Average students are the same everywhere.

[Anonymous No.3561928]

>>3561921
What has studying at Oxford done for you career-wise?

[Anonymous No.3561937]

>>3561921
>Most people were just cranking out awful essays on impossibly simple topics, while the 'elite' offerings were invariably feminist or post-colonial. I was, generally speaking, deeply unimpressed by 'Ivy League' undergraduates.
Good to see you've finally realized how little your intelligence has to do getting into schools.

[Anonymous No.3561991]

>>3561921
>Average students are the same everywhere.
Well yeah. But good universities have only geniuses topping the classes (at least for real majors i.e. stem[/spoiler)

[Anonymous No.3561996]

>>3561991
Not really. Oxford has a large amount of students getting 1sts. Usually a third or more.

[Anonymous No.3562004]

Your topic usually has very little relevance to your career. Only approximately 15% of graduates use specific knowledge they gained on their degree, and most of that figure is taken up by postgrads. It's the institution and the marks that count.

[Anonymous No.3562007]

I'm about to transfer from Marquette University to Illinois State University. It's a pretty significant downgrade, but money has become a huge issue and I can't afford a private university anymore.

[Anonymous No.3562009]

>>3562004
And experience.
>>3562007
>murrica

[Anonymous No.3562012]

>>3562009

I don't see what's particularly murrican about my issue. Other countries have private unis, too. And I'm moving to a state university because it's more affordable.

[Anonymous No.3562019]

>>3561881
Fuck me you're retarded. Go back to /b/, this place isn't for you.

[Anonymous No.3562023]

>>3562012
I don't think access to university should be based on money. It should be based solely on academic ability. I don't give a fuck if you did IB and Gold D of E. If you're a fucking retard, I don't want you in my fucking uni. It's not fair for those with pecuniary issues.

[Anonymous No.3562025]

>>3562012
Private unis, by and large, are seen as a way for daddy's little precious to get a degree somehow.

[Anonymous No.3562055]

>>3561725
hopefully you're still around but is liverpool uni nice?

looking to do my masters there

[Anonymous No.3562059]

I'm at Lincoln University in England. It's a good place, I'd recommend.

[Anonymous No.3562060]

>>3562055
I am. I'll be finishing up my 2nd year in June.
Are you studying English? Where are you now? The staff here are really nice, and, by and large, very knowledgeable. What topic are you looking to specialise in? I can probably tell you who your tutors will be.

[Anonymous No.3562061]

>>3562025
Amongst who? No one thinks that.

[Anonymous No.3562071]

i'm studying at the university of gloucester.

Taken a major beating in the uk rankings. last years graduates must have been dumb as shit.

[Anonymous No.3562075]

>>3562071
I can't remember whether Gloucester's an ex-poly or not, but it's a bit so-so.

[Anonymous No.3562078]

>>3562061
Pretty much everyone.

[Anonymous No.3562087]

Michigan State University -- James Madison College.

I'm excited for it.

[Anonymous No.3562088]

I'm studying history at mcgill university

[Anonymous No.3562104]

>>3561643
ive been there.... hogwaartz

[Anonymous No.3562129]

University of Birmingham. It's pretty badass

[Anonymous No.3562135]

I'm hoping to get into LES from Helsinki.

If not there, then hopefully Bocconi.

If not there, then hopefully SSE. Economics and or Political History up to this mongol.

[Anonymous No.3562136]

>>3562129
I live just outside of Birmingham, but I've never been to the campus.

[Anonymous No.3562144]

>>3561658
>mfw #1 and engineering

[Anonymous No.3562149]

What point is there in such general comparison?

Wouldn't it be more intelligent to compare colleges of same field together?

[Anonymous No.3562152]

>>3562149
Hence why it's so tenuous and incredibly prone to being the subject of circlejerking.

[Anonymous No.3562159]

Anybody knows what exams I have to present to apply to England universities? I've presented the SATs, the Colombian equivalent to SATs and the TOEFL, is that enough?

[Anonymous No.3562163]

>>3562159
Varies depending on the uni. Go look at the ac.uk pages of your target unis.

[Anonymous No.3562169]

>>3561658
thats bullsit, it contains Universidad de los Andes, a university that isn't even Colombia's best (i think its 3rd)

[Anonymous No.3562197]

In the US, I was always under the impression that it was go state, go ivy, or go home, with exceptions for CIT and MIT.

State university here, no student loans and life is fine. Its more worthwhile to be an entrepreneur or get in on the ground floor.

[Anonymous No.3563610]

Currently have two more years at Temple University. I'm studying journalism but I've recently discovered I don't give a shit about the news -or rather, I have somewhat reactionary views on the role of social media in the news. Becoming more and more interested in Classics, but I feel like it's too late to jump ship. Oh well.

No student loans or anything, at least I'm not paying anything ludicrous for this. There's always grad school for that.

[Anonymous No.3563612]

>>3563610
Look at these losers

[Anonymous No.3563628]

>>3563610
How many people that study journalism want to be sports writers from your experience?

[Anonymous No.3563647]

Any other Americans feel like they want to be teachers but don't want to be stuck in either the rigid high school conditioning processing line or the academic/forced feeling of university?

[Anonymous No.3563661]

U of T, bitch!
Not sure why it's so great it deserves a top 20 ranking. Doesn't feel that awesome. Some of the faculty are fucking idiots too

[Anonymous No.3563695]

Anyone have any experience with St. John's college?
Spent a year in a community, thinking I might transfer into it. I've seen people mention it here once or twice.
I get the feeling it attracts a lot of borderline autists and naive, pretentious kids. I don't know what to make of the school, Santa Fe or Annapolis, but the curriculum seems really nice.

[Anonymous No.3563703]

>>3562088
same! what year?

[Anonymous No.3563708]

>>3561658
>tfw #25

Y'all said Texas was stupid.

[Anonymous No.3563710]

>>3561643
Harvard ezpz

[Anonymous No.3563943]

Oregon State University.
Dual majoring in Political Science and History.
I'm scared /lit/.

[Anonymous No.3563956]

I want to go to Pomona(David Foster Wallace taught there)
tfw when cant get in regularly with grades and scores, but will probs get in cause of football and half smart:)