Given I maintain my current GPA I am allowed to receive a grant from my university to do the PLT (practical legal training) component of my Australian LLB on exchange in another country whilst studying regular units at a university in that host country. I am tossing up between somewhere in the UK or the US. This is for the second half of 2015.
I will obviously research in great detail each individual institution but in the meantime would love your thoughts on which universities would be best for study, social life and all that! It would be a full time +25% load so probably only two days off a week to explore wherever I went. Have you had any experiences with these institutions? Any I should immediately rule out?
My university offers exchange with these institutions in the UK:
- Cardiff University
- Keele University (Extremely high GPA needed and very limited places)
- Lancaster University
- Oxford Brooks University
- University of Bristol (Extremely high GPA needed and very limited places)
- University of East Anglia
- University of Essex
- University of Glasgow (Extremely low GPA needed, practically accept anyone according to my program advisor)
- University of Leicester
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Thread: Best UK University for exchange?
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03-12-2013, 11:33 AM #1
Best UK University for exchange?
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Bristol, Glasgow, Cardiff and East Anglia are all good universities. Bristol and Glasgow are the best out of your list.
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Glasgow has old and pretty buildings. It is in Scotland so they will teach Scots law which is different from English/common law. Nice city, uni is respected internationally.
Cardiff is a very ugly city in my opinion but the university is good.
Bristol is in a nice compact city with everything you need, very good university but there are a lot of privately educated 'Oxbridge rejects' there.
East Anglia, nice uni near Norwich which is a lovely little city. Good academics in general.
Keele is not a good university and it is in the middle of nowhere.
Lancaster is distinctly 'meh', it is not near anything interesting or exciting. Academically, it is average at best.
Oxford Brooks...terrible, don't go there.
Essex is ugly and average to poor academically.
Leicester is very ugly and is also average at best.
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Wow, you must have got around a lot if you've studied at all those universities AND live in Norway!
Originally Posted by Okeanos
The only advice I can give you about is the Uni of Leicester, the buildings are pretty old since there's not much room for expansion since it's in the middle of the city, they do have a lovely shiny library though
But I wouldn't call it average, it's constantly in the top 15 Universities of the country, which is very good - Lancaster and Bristol are also in the top 15.
There's not really a campus... Just buildings. Nightclubs and accommodation etc are all away from the actual Uni itself.
The city itself is very, very diverse, probably one of the most diverse places in the country. I wouldn't say Leicester is spectacular though, and if I were you, Leicester wouldn't be my first pick.
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I can vouch for Norwich (Where the UEA is located) being a really nice city, even if it is in the middle of nowhere. Also the campus has lots of open green spaces and for the most part looks pretty.
Chippiewill.
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Leicester in the top 15.... dream on. I was being kind when I said it was average, I wouldn't go there even if it was free! Originally Posted by Kardan
Wow, you must have got around a lot if you've studied at all those universities AND live in Norway!
The only advice I can give you about is the Uni of Leicester, the buildings are pretty old since there's not much room for expansion since it's in the middle of the city, they do have a lovely shiny library though But I wouldn't call it average, it's constantly in the top 15 Universities of the country, which is very good - Lancaster and Bristol are also in the top 15.
There's not really a campus... Just buildings. Nightclubs and accommodation etc are all away from the actual Uni itself.
The city itself is very, very diverse, probably one of the most diverse places in the country. I wouldn't say Leicester is spectacular though, and if I were you, Leicester wouldn't be my first pick.
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Ranked 16th at the moment overall. Originally Posted by Okeanos
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Not for Law. Originally Posted by Kardan
Chippiewill.
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So what? Everyone knows newspaper 'rankings' should be taken with a massive grain of salt. Only the very best unis stay at the top of the list year in, year out. Originally Posted by Kardan
I can think of over 30 unis which are far better than Leicester (in no particular order):
Cambridge, Oxford, UCL, Imperial, LSE, Edinburgh, St Andrews, Durham, KCL, SOAS, the Courtauld, Bristol, Birmingham, Manchester, Glasgow, Aberdeen, Sheffield, Leeds, Liverpool, Cardiff, Exeter, Newcastle, Nottingham, QMUL, Queen's Belfast, Southampton, York, Warwick, Birkbeck, East Anglia, Royal Holloway, Bath etc etc and so the list continues...
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"University of Leicester ranked in UK top 20 by The Times for fifth year in succession" Originally Posted by Okeanos
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?
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That is indeed true. I guess it depends what sort of tables you want to look at, I suppose in this case the Law table would be the most accurate, and a foreign students table if one exists Originally Posted by Chippiewill
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