Best UK University for exchange?

[Okeanos]

"University of Leicester ranked in UK top 20 by The Times for fifth year in succession"

It's not as if it's a one-off... And they're hoping to be in the top 10 by 2015. And please do tell, how you know all of these Universities so well?

5 years is not a long time, if they stay up there for 10 years then perhaps you might have a point. At any way the Times is just ONE set of rankings, they are all so different and none can be relied on. What really matters is RAE... does Leicester even have one RAE rated excellent department? lol

I have been researching unis for 6 years, so I know quite a bit.

[Chippiewill]

What really matters is RAE... does Leicester even have one RAE rated excellent department? lol

Good research and good student experience are not the same thing.

[Kardan]

5 years is not a long time, if they stay up there for 10 years then perhaps you might have a point. At any way the Times is just ONE set of rankings, they are all so different and none can be relied on. What really matters is RAE... does Leicester even have one RAE rated excellent department? lol

I have been researching unis for 6 years, so I know quite a bit.

Leicester also emerged as having one of the highest proportions of staff who are research active in the UK, with approximately 93 per cent of staff submitted for the exercise, of which 87 per cent were deemed by the RAE to be producing ‘internationally significant’ research.

Sounds decent to me.

[karter]

My school recommended LSE, Oxford, Cambridge and Glasgow for law I think and my father graduated from University of Sheffield

[Okeanos]

Good research and good student experience are not the same thing.

I disagree. Good research means good staff, only with good staff can you have good courses. If the courses arent good then the students sure as hell wont be.

Sounds decent to me.

Well, it isn't. That means that nearly all of their staff were average. No internationally excellent or world-leading departments... whereas every uni I listed above has at least one, and many have dozens.

[Kardan]

I disagree. Good research means good staff, only with good staff can you have good courses. If the courses arent good then the students sure as hell wont be.



Well, it isn't. That means that nearly all of their staff were average. No internationally excellent or world-leading departments... whereas every uni I listed above has at least one, and many have dozens.

It also revealed that the Department of Museum Studies at Leicester has the greatest cluster of world-leading researchers of any department, on any subject, in any university, anywhere in the UK.

Well, there's one department for you.

[Okeanos]

Well, there's one department for you.

Um... that isn't a rating. The dept doesn't even offer undergraduate courses.

[Kardan]

Um... that isn't a rating. The dept doesn't even offer undergraduate courses.

I don't really care either way, I already said I wouldn't recommend Leicester

[Yawn]

bristol is a gd uni and pretty cool place

i guess u cud go to essex for the banter

[myles]

to be honest okeanos u need to shut up u think u know more about uk than any of us that live in the uk actually do
kardan is right lets leave it at that xxx