Mumsnet University League Tables 2021

[Aslockton]

Just as a bit of fun, but also because Mumsnet has a wealth of knowledge and experience, would you be able to compile your own university league table. This is on the back of people saying Durham is better than Manchester.

This can be for all universities, or for a specific subject or area (top 10 Northern universities). I would love to see Xenia's top 10 law universities, or the best universities for engineering or marine biology etc.

I'll start...

My top non-Russell Group universities:

1 St Andrews
2 Bath
3 Loughborough
4 Lancaster
5 City
6 SOAS
7 Surrey
8 Sussex
9 Reading
10 Dundee

Top 10 London Universities

1. Imperial
2. LSE
3. UCL
4. Kings College
5. Queen Mary
6. City
7. SOAS
8. Royal Holloway
9. UoA

10. Brunel

Can anyone do a top 10 for the “lower grade” unis for Management/Business Courses? Eg Brighton, De Montford, John Moores etc

Party hard unis, based on my many years listening to socialites selecting unis for UCAS solely on this criteria:

1. Nottingham Trent
2. Newcastle
3. Leeds
4. Nottingham
5. Birmingham
6. Oxford Brookes

I can't fill a top 10! Essentially my top 5 should be NTU NTU NTU NTU NTU!

@KaycePollard

You don't give your criteria *@Aslockton*

On what grounds are you compiling these 'league tables'?

Reputation and hear-say with a pinch of personal experience listening to family and DC's friends over the years. Just like why Durham is seen as top 3 on Mumsnet but 162nd in the World rankings, 112 places below Manchester that is seen as a poor choice by many on here. Purely personal, unquantifiable criteria with very little statistical analysis!

It is a bit of fun, might give some insight and spark discussion. What's not to love!

Ok, my top 10 for prestige "Ohhh, they have done well!" type of university,(Not necessarily the best universities) Feel free to disagree!

1. Cambridge
2. Oxford
3. Imperial
4. LSE
5. Durham
6. Any Med School
7. Any Vet School
8. UCL
9. St Andrews

10. Edinburgh

Cardiff surely? Party central. And Bournemouth too.

DC2 did first degree at Trent, and she wouldn't argue with that Piggywaspushed, she certainly did a lot of socialising , though to be fair to her she also did well enough academically to get onto a Masters at a top 2 university (for her subject) where she did no partying.

Not doubting it. Kids I have taught have elastic bands attached which means they wouldn't head that far away!

That's a very MN list OP! Not sure it would be the same outside London tbh.

MN approved list:

1. Oxbridge
2. Russell Group, especially Durham. And probably not Liverpool.
3. Wait... Bath isn't Russell Group??
4. And what's this? St Andrews isn't either? Gosh.
5. I hear Loughborough is very sporty ,although I have no idea where it is.

Disclaimer: entirely tongue in cheek

Piggywaspushed So true re MN approved list - you didn't need a disclaimer!

Just got my DC Prizegiving books out.

DC1 went to a selective state school in the south of England. These were the top uni choices:

1. Leeds
2. Cambridge
3. Birmingham

4.Southampton

1. Warwick
2. Nottingham
3. York
4. Loughborough
5. Oxford

10. Bristol

(Gap year was the top choice by quite some way. I wonder if that has changed with Covid?)

@diian

Just got my DC Prizegiving books out.

DC1 went to a selective state school in the south of England. These were the top uni choices:

1. Leeds
2. Cambridge
3. Birmingham

4.Southampton

1. Warwick
2. Nottingham
3. York
4. Loughborough
5. Oxford

10. Bristol

(Gap year was the top choice by quite some way. I wonder if that has changed with Covid?)

This was 2019, girls school.

Also 2019, DC2 boys Selective School south of England.

1. Nottingham
2. Cambridge
3. Warwick
4. UCL
5. LSE
6. UMUL
7. Oxford

8.Bath 9.Birmingham 10 Southampton

(Gap year ranked =6th and Apprenticeship =10th)

Interesting that geographically, no Scottish university or anything north of York makes the top 10 at either school. The boys' school is heavily weighted towards London and the South.

Aslockton - for prestige St Andrews might nudge ahead of oxbridge - according to The Times anyway. Shocking times.

Best beaches -

Exeter
St Andrews
Brighton
Swansea
Lancaster

Ooh where else?

Well, I imagine that's because they are further away dian?!

@Newgirls

Aslockton - for prestige St Andrews might nudge ahead of oxbridge - according to The Times anyway. Shocking times.

Best beaches -

Exeter
St Andrews
Brighton
Swansea
Lancaster

Ooh where else?

Aberdeen Aberystwyth Edinburgh (Portobello) Ulster Bournemouth

@Piggywaspushed

Well, I imagine that's because they are further away dian?!

I am sure St Andrews and Durham are not just full of Northerners though! The prestige does not lure everyone to want to make a 6 hr plus journey.

I was expecting Durham to be in the top 10 of both. Both schools had 2 students only taking up a place, whereas the super selective boys' school had 18 go to Nottingham, 17 to Cambridge etc.

@diian probably depends on what they are applying for as Durham doesn't do every subject. So medics, dentists, vets and architects can't go there.

Another one for beaches is Kent. For flower meadows I vote UEA. And boating lake, Nottingham. Best Banksy's in Bristol. Best place to hold interviews, Liverpool (crypt of cathedral).

Exeter is not a beach uni. Exmouth is several miles away.

Best universities for finding long-term love....

Edinburgh at no 1! Met my DH while studying there 😊💕

www.independent.co.uk/student/news/edinburgh-heads-top-10-cities-finding-love-university-according-university-surrey-10471305.html?amp

1. Edinburgh
2. Bristol
3. Liverpool
4. Cambridge
5. Norwich
6. Durham
7. London
8. Oxford
9. Birmingham
10. Nottingham

No way does Brighton have a better beach than Bournemouth.

Football teams. Discount the big name ones as you can't get a ticket. Bournemouth again perhaps.

Falmouth has beautiful beaches!

I'll add Swansea to Sandy's long term love list. Met DH on our first day 32 years ago. Swansea also deserves its place on the best beach list, along with Falmouth in its various forms. Technically you can also get a degree in Newquay. Not so sure about the degree course, but it ticks boxes for beaches. Definitely no bias in any of my votes.

DS attended a super-selective. In order of numbers. Top fifteen universities

University of Nottingham
University of Southampton
Oxbridge
University of Surrey
=Kings College London
=University of Bristol
University of Bath=
University of Warwick=
University of East Anglia=
University of Birmingham=
=University of Sussex
=University of Edinburgh=
University of Exeter=
UCL=
Imperial=

And that's over 60% of the cohort accounted for.

Best graduation? Lincoln Cathedral?