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if anything i'll have enough money for a nice car/down payment on a house by the time i get my degree.Macbeth wrote:
and lowing.
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i thought you were at oxford?Uzique wrote:
this is the reason why the 1994 group exists. my university's english department is often considered top10 in the country and the university is 88th in the world... it has about 100 english students per year and 4.8k undergraduates, period. i think the total number including postgraduates and part-timers is around 8k. it has an annual endowment of like £58 million. it's impossibly tiny even compared to other top-elite english unis (e.g. oxbridge) - and on the international scale it's impossibly small. groups like the 1994 group ensure it keeps recognition and prestige despite its tiny enrollment/financial data (which affects universities a lot in the arbitrary ranking schemes)Winston_Churchill wrote:
canadas top 3 unis are all pretty massive. u of t - our top one - has around 80k students
Then you can get married and start having some Muslim children.13/f/taiwan wrote:
if anything i'll have enough money for a nice car/down payment on a house by the time i get my degree.Macbeth wrote:
and lowing.
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Macbeth wrote:
Then you can get married and start having some Muslim children.13/f/taiwan wrote:
if anything i'll have enough money for a nice car/down payment on a house by the time i get my degree.Macbeth wrote:
and lowing.
13/f/taiwan wrote:
god bless america.
nope not really... ucl is actually better for english than both, technically. it's splitting a very fine hair. both are incredibly strong in the arts/humanities - it's just that oxford has the high-profile art-intellectual colleges (magdalen) and cambridge has the renowned science-y ones (trinity). basically no difference though; the top of academia is the top of academia, really. it's just down to preference about the courses. the m.phil in criticism and culture looks fucking amazing... the master's in englit at oxford looks pretty dry in comparison (and it takes 2 years). ucl do incredibly modern and innovative courses (as do rhul and kings), whereas oxbridge are obviously more interested in producing establishment scholars.presidentsheep wrote:
Thought in general oxford was better than cambridge for humanities subjects?
oh wow, didnt know that. so youre at university of london?Uzique wrote:
jesus that was a thing i rode for like 2 months about 2 years ago... hahaha. no! and yeah the big universities really benefit in those rankings. lots of unis in the top 100 just because of their size and sheer research power through funding and volume. reputation seems to matter more over here than the capricious newspaper and statistic rankings... so i'm shooting for another university of london (e.g. ucl/kings) or oxbridge for my postgrad. dream course is an m.phil in criticism and culture at cambridge. oh mama.
On an amusingly relevant-ish note, I learned today that my universities annual endowment is £770k. Yes that's right, about the price of a small apartment in not-that-central London. It's made all the funnier because one of my best friends is at UVA, which has an annual endowment of $4.5 billion.Uzique wrote:
this is the reason why the 1994 group exists. my university's english department is often considered top10 in the country and the university is 88th in the world... it has about 100 english students per year and 4.8k undergraduates, period. i think the total number including postgraduates and part-timers is around 8k. it has an annual endowment of like £58 million. it's impossibly tiny even compared to other top-elite english unis (e.g. oxbridge) - and on the international scale it's impossibly small. groups like the 1994 group ensure it keeps recognition and prestige despite its tiny enrollment/financial data (which affects universities a lot in the arbitrary ranking schemes)Winston_Churchill wrote:
canadas top 3 unis are all pretty massive. u of t - our top one - has around 80k students
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