<p>Haha!... No, I honestly wasn't sure whether you were implying what you just said now, or if you meant that $1200 was a large amount of money :P</p>
<p>Yes, Norway is a rich country, and the schools might be better equipped than schools "in the slums". When it comes to education however, Norway has a very socialist policy, i.e. everybody has the right to get the same free education (at unis too), and so there are very few private schools compared to other equally rich contries.</p>
<p>The IB programs therefore receives very limited funding. At my school we can only afford to have one entering class of 25 students each year. We're the only IB school in second largest city of Norway.</p>
<p>"Uhm... That's not entirely true. While IB is mostly taught at private and international schools, my IB school is a public one, and we only pay around $1200 a year, which are for the examination fees. Most IB schools in Norway are actually public ones."</p>
<p>Only 1200? Education is free in my country but if you want IB, which is easier than our Abitur, you'll have to attend a private school. Generally, the IB kids will be richer than others...</p>
<p>Oxford is pretty lame at an undergrad level for economics - Cambridge is definitely the best for that subject, along with the LSE.</p>
<p>Cambridge and LSE would fight for 1 and 2 in terms of quality - depends on whether you want to be social scientist/theorist (go to cam) or a econometrician/practical economist (go to LSE).</p>
<p>UCL is ahead of Warwick IMO - warwick has a lot to do to justify its reputation at a departmental level. UCL by comparison has a very impressive faculty for economics, despite frequently changing.</p>
<p>Cambridge is very very good for Medicine - Kings College London and Imperial are very good too. Don't know about Oxford, but do have a very intelligent friend who went their for medicine (got 45 points on the IB). Oh and they rejected him first time round and he had to take a gap year.... with 45 points. Mental lol.</p>
<p>Most of the above is based on my experience.</p>
<p>If you want something quick and simple, the times does subject rankings:</p>
<p>Alissa - Before applying to the 'best' college in CAm for med, you may want to think realistically about your chances. Acceptance rates are in single digits and the competition between applicants is fierce.</p>
<p>Look how close those scores are. I'm not going to split hairs over the order since everyone agrees that Oxford, Cambridge, LSE, Warwick and UCL all have world-class economics departments. An economics degree from any of these five will open a lot of doors on the job market.</p>
<p>Each has its individual strengths but ultimately they are all excellent all-round programmes and you can't go wrong with any of them.</p>
<p>Octafish: "PS, in Britain one does not study psychology to become a psychiatrist. You go to an undergraduate medical school, graduating as a general doctor in six years. Then you specialise in psychiatry. No UK medical school will accept anything but exceptional grades, sorry to say."</p>
<p>Im confused. Theres a undergrad med school in the UK?</p>
<p>Almost all medical schools are undergraduate in the UK. Don't take this the wrong way, but you really need to start doing your research about things like this.</p>
<p>That medical table looks dodgy to me... I'm not one to big up my own university but UCL has a better medical school than many of those universities... We get Oxford and Cambridge students coming here in droves to do their clinical training as UCH offers much better opportunities. Furthermore, research groups like the Wolfson are unrivalled outside of Oxbridge.</p>
<p>Law students in the UK have to take another course after graduating to practice law and one can practice law without an undergraduate degree in it though. It's not quite the same as medicine, where the great majority of doctors were undergraduate medics.</p>