<p>Which the better university between the two, overall and for physics?</p>
<p>Go to St. Andrews and get yourself a prince ;)</p>
<p>anymore opinion?</p>
<p>St. Andrews > Warwick KO. 2</p>
<p>lol @ cat007…</p>
<p>How is St Andrews better than Warwick for Physics?</p>
<p>Warwick is good, but not as good as some of its students like to make out. It’s a really good university with a few outstanding departments (econ, maths, physics); whereas St Andrews is an outstanding university with mostly outstanding departments. For physics alone I think they’re about even, but St Andrews is the more prestigious in my opinion.</p>
<p>Can you rank the universities in the UK?</p>
<p>St Andrews has more historical prestige, but Warwick appears to be more reputable with employers from my time in the UK. At the majority of assessment centres for BBs and MC law firms, you’ll get a fair share of Warwick students, and St Andrews are nowhere to be seen, but this may be down to different career ambitions. The fact that that St Andrews has so many Americans doesn’t mean anything. Whenever, a US student is tossing up their choices, its rarely between an ivy/similar calibre and St Andrews. It’s usually between a reasonably good, but not outstanding US university and St Andrews, so they just seem to get their pick of the average american students. I lol’ed at the claim that St Andrews has ‘mostly outstanding depts’ when I think of St Andrews, all I think of is IR and maybe History. The only UK universities, with ‘mostly’ outstanding departments are Oxbridge, LSE and Imperial. Warwick, UCL, Durham and St Andrews stand out from the rest of the pack because of a few courses which make them solid top 10 UK universities.</p>
<p>@Spawn,</p>
<p>What’s the most straightforward way to determine which are the really strong courses at a given UK university?</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>St. Andrews is entirely overrated, unless you’re talking about IR, and a horrible place to live.</p>
<p>Warwick isn’t much better, but it IS better.</p>
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<p>It’s hard to say really, but I would probably say.</p>
<p>Oxbridge = Anything. Even courses like History of Art are prestigious to the average layman and some employers. I.e an Oxbridge Anglo Norton Celtic studies student could probably make it into Mckinsey, largely because the Oxbridge elitism sells around the world.</p>
<p>Imperial= Anything. Largely because it only focuses on sciences, which all have stringent entry requirements (A<em>A</em>AA to AAB).</p>
<p>LSE= probably the majority of courses are considered very strong but subjects like Sociology and Social Anthropology, won’t be percieved in the same light as LSE Law or Economics.</p>
<p>UCL= Strong across the board, but subjects like Law, English, Medicine, History, and Economics are their strong point. UCL is quite weak for science in general.</p>
<p>Warwick= Pretty strong across the board, but has a few extremely strong depts such as Economics, Maths, Business,etc. There is a common fallacy that Warwick is an average school bar its Econ/Maths/Business program, but those are just the flagship courses, it has many other top depts.</p>
<p>St Andrews= IR and History are the flagship courses, but St Andrews is quite strong across the board aswell. St Andrews is prestigious, but I personally think the Prince’s attendence has propelled it into the spotlight along with its heavy marketing in the UK. In the UK St Andrews lags behind the first six in terms of reputation with firms, and alumni in high places. St Andrews doesn’t have a shadow let alone a presence in the financial world.</p>
<p>Durham= generally strong across the board, very strong in sciences/Law/History/English.</p>
<p>King’s= King’s is prestigious, but seems to be on the decline. Has a very strong law school, strong at History/English and the Humananties, but is weak at science.</p>
<p>For the rest of UK schools, which I’m not too knowledgeable about, you’re best of checking out, and checking the specific subjects.</p>
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<p>[Law</a> - Top UK University Subject Tables and Rankings 2012 - Complete University Guide](<a href=“http://www.thecompleteuniversityguide.co.uk/league-tables/rankings?s=Law]Law”>http://www.thecompleteuniversityguide.co.uk/league-tables/rankings?s=Law)</p>
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<p>Take these tables with a pinch of salt, some of the stats are way. You can use the table to check where the given universities ranks for the specific subject.</p>
<p>Any further questions feel free!</p>