Can you provide me some good information about the universities in England?

Question

I want to have some information about the universities especially from students and teachers.

I have graduated from an international high school which has a high reputation. I have an International Baccalaureate diploma. I especially want to know about scholarship system, advantages and disadvantages among the universities. Most probably I will study law. And I have an EU citizenship (I know citizenship is an important matter about scholarship.)

If you can, please give me details about some good universities. I have some basic information and I want to have the details with names. I'm thinking on a few universities in Oxford but I'm still not sure.

Any good information about this subject will keep me interested. Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

I can provide you some good information about Oxford Brookes University which I'm currently attending. Excuse me if I can't be objective since my second major is advertising. :)

Brookes has achieved an excellent reputation for many of its courses and for its teaching over the years and is voted the best new university by a number of independent newspapers. The university boasts particular strength in the fields of humanities and business, performing highly in research assessments for areas such as history, modern languages and English.

More recently in the 2007 Sunday Times University Guide the university was placed 15th in the country for teaching, placing it in the top 12% of UK universities on this performance measure. Oxford Brookes is ambitious to expand its reputation from the best new university to one of the best of all universities in the future. It aims to become one of the UK's top 20 universities on overall performance indicators within 10 years.

Oxford Brookes operates the Modular System which allows students flexibility over their choice of modules, and a number of modules can be studied outside of the main subject of study.

This gives you the opportunity to study a limited number of modules which can be of any subject, regardless of its relation to your main discipline. For example, you could be studying Biology and decide to take a module in, say, English Literature.

As a result;

-Do you want to live in one of Britain's most historic, student-friendly and culturally-diverse cities?

-Do you want to live somewhere that has good access to London at relatively cheap prices? (It's only £9 return to London by bus)

-Do you want to live in a university that offers excellent teaching, good career prospects and a flexible degree system, which allows you to take a limited number of modules outside your main discipline (of any subject you like)?

-Do you want to live in a university with an excellent student union, offering regular top social events and excellent student support services?

-Do you want to live in a university with a friendly and diverse student population, which offers a large range of sporting activities and societies?

Hit the link below for more information.
http://ssl.brookes.ac.uk/
And about bursary:
http://www.brookes.ac.uk/studying/finance/support

Answer 2

If you want to undertake Law in the UK you need to research the various Law Schools rather than the Universities themselves. It depends on what sort or field of Law you wish to practice in as well. I know that may sound like a difficult question for you to try and answer at this very early stage in your academic career, but you need to think about that.

If I were in your place I would look at getting into Cambridge Law if you can, the reason being that although Oxford and the LSE etc all have good courses and great reputations, the course or courses at Cambridge appear (to me in any event) to be based on a more international level. That is there are various courses dealing with various International systems and fields of law, but that's just me. Plus the added advantage is that Cambridge much like Oxford has a great Village Town type atmosphere, i.e. University Town and very beautiful, similar with Oxford. I think it's pretty much a personal choice at the end of the day and the fact of which Uni you can get into.

Cheers

Answer 3

www.ucas.co.uk is a very good source.
As far as I know, EU citizens are not offered scholarships by UK universities, since they pay 'home' fees. Scholarships are offered to other nationalities. Undergraduate fees are around 1000 UK pounds a year for EU citizens. However, there are also EU programs like Socrates etc. You should check those from EU webpages to see if you are entitled to some financial aid.
Ucas should give you lots of information on UK universities, also search for university/program ratings. You might be able to find out how law schools/depts. rank among themselves in the UK.

Answer 4

order prospectuses from the internet to find out about each one. All the good universities are in the Russle group

Answer 5

Well, I've been so many times in England ( London is so close to Paris, thanks to the Eurostar ), but I unfortunately don't have much knowledge about the universities there..

But what can we add after Gus, Bored and Anlarm's answers ?

Answer 6

York has a good university, Hull and Preston are shite.

Answer 7

www.ucas.com