<p>Hi, I'm a British student with an International background applying for an undergraduate course in the UK. However, I'm looking at doing a graduate degree in the United States.</p>
<p>After being rejected by Oxford and LSE - sigh - my options are Bristol and Warwick to study Politics. I was just wondering about their reputation in the US? Searching through the forum it seems that Warwick is mentioned, and is given as an example of a good UK uni far more often than Bristol which I find odd considering they are considered roughly equal in the UK. In fact in the Times University Guide Bristol narrowly beat Warwick to fourth place in terms of the quality of the Politics degrees.</p>
<p>So I'm asking general questions really, if you're just a regular American student, have you heard of either of these two universities, and if anyone has experience in academia, how highly are they regarded as institutions in the United States.</p>
<p>I know someone who goes to Bristol very well and it seems to be a very highly selective instituion.. not along the lines of oxbridge but right after that?</p>
<p>I've heard very good things about Warwick when it comes to business, but I doubt many in the USA have heard much, if anything, about UK Universities outside of Oxford and Cambridge.</p>
<p>I'd suggest going to the place you like the best and do well there, I'm sure graduate programs in the US won't reject you or accept you just because you went to one or the other; the most important thing is what you do, not where you did it (assuming fairly equal universities of course).</p>
<p>I am sure all universities in the US know how good Bristol and Warwick really are. I would tend to go with Bristol in a Politics degree. Warwick is younger and although very good, I think Bristol has more prestige and is more of a classic...isn't Tony Blair's son studying politics there?? Anyway, for politics I would go with Bristol, but any choice is good. Don't worry about how its regarded in the universities, although outside of them I am not sure... (Im international)</p>
<p>[Smash96] Tony Blair's eldest son (Euan) actually graduated from Bristol with an upper second-class degree in Ancient History, after being rejected by Trinity College, Oxford. Surprisingly though, Euan, who was not good enough to get into Oxford and is at best a mediocre student, has now been offered a full ride as a master's student in international relations at Yale University in the US. Too much for the US being a meritocracy (as long as you have the right parents, I guess) !</p>
<p>I have heard of both of those schools, but nothing about their merits, just their names. However, what the majority of Americans know is really unimportant, because most of us are woefully uneducated about even good American colleges. (If you say Brown, most people think of UPS before they think of the Ivy league school). However, I am sure every grad school in the country is well-versed in British schools, so I would not be worried if I were in your shoes.</p>
<p>Most of the int'l students, in europe/asia/australia etc., who consider applying to uk schools would know bristol and warwick quite well. both are considered top rated schools in uk, making into the top 10 places possibly more than any other uk schools except oxbridge. however, unfortunately, most students in the us do not recognize, if they do at all, the top uk schools apart from oxbridge, imperial, lse and maybe ucl.</p>
<p>but i'm sure most top schools admissions officers in us would have a fairly good idea of what good uk schools are, of course including bristol and warwick. so applying to top us graduate schools wouldn't be a serious problem in this respect. admissions officers keep themselves pretty updated with what goes on in higher education outside the us; uk, canada, australia, in particular.</p>