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Posted: Fri Sep 12, 14 9:31 am
by db
Well after a lot of research last night, we've whittled it down to 5 and booked the open days.
Manchester Met is still number 1 choice.
Aston, 2nd favourite.
Nottingham Trent- we're going there tomorrow.
Leeds.
Sheffield Hallam.
Thanks for your input folks, I'll let you know how we get on
Posted: Fri Sep 12, 14 9:36 am
by autofetish
Leeds is a Bananarama! hole went there to visit
A mate once while he was at uni
Posted: Fri Sep 12, 14 9:38 am
by GJUK
Leeds has been improved over the last 10 years or so. Lots of new buildings though its not as nice as Nottingham or Manchester.
Posted: Fri Sep 12, 14 5:48 pm
by Jerry Smith
Leeds is pretty good from what I've heard and the student halls I've seen/worked in in the past seem pretty good, I'd avoid Bradford at all costs because it's just generally a Bananarama! hole, Huddersfield is ok, pretty quiet
Posted: Fri Sep 12, 14 6:08 pm
by db
Thanks Jerry, yeah we'd read a lot of bad stuff about Bradford- 'to be avoided at all costs' was the general feeling we got
Posted: Fri Sep 12, 14 6:22 pm
by bratfink
Sheffield Hallam is a good uni, had friends that went there.
Surprised by Aston being 2nd choice, I never liked that place.
There were only 15 uni's doing product design??? I could have sworn Coventry did it when I was there.
Posted: Fri Sep 12, 14 8:04 pm
by sinny
db wrote:
Nottingham Trent- we're going tomorrow
I'll see you there Paul.
Posted: Fri Sep 12, 14 10:34 pm
by Pete
Posted: Fri Sep 12, 14 11:07 pm
by GJUK
The carbon-neutral building, which was due to be opened early next year, cost £15.8m
I find that very funny.
Imagine all of that smoke lifting up in to the air, probably a carbon Bananarama! building now. On a par with a mopar?
Posted: Sat Sep 13, 14 7:34 am
by sinny
Wow! That's bad. At the bottom of the article a spokesman for the uni said that the open day is still on today.
Wonder if it was started by a rival uni!
Posted: Sat Sep 13, 14 12:21 pm
by Richard
Manchester is a good town for nightlife etc
Aston appears to be a campus uni so might not be so good for that-may be better for keeping the academic side more in focus though!
Posted: Sat Sep 13, 14 8:41 pm
by db
Aston was 2nd purely on results, we've not been there yet.
Luckily the fire was at a different campus so we missed it and it wouldn't affect Daisy.
We visited the City campus, I can highly recommend it!
Nice Uni, nice city. All very self-contained, the buildings are all close together, including most of the accommodation. It's literally next to the city centre and Rock City is 100 yards from the place
Posted: Sun Sep 14, 14 5:28 pm
by mad machs
Driving Daughter up to Nottingham Trent on Tuesday, she's going to study Pharmacology, we were going up earlier, but it clashed with the Hot Rod Drags
Posted: Thu Sep 18, 14 12:32 pm
by db
Aston done and dismissed.
Poorly equipped department and the area is a dump. Next!
Posted: Thu Sep 18, 14 1:00 pm
by Dave81
db wrote:Aston done and dismissed.
Poorly equipped department and the area is a dump. Next!
Aston in Birmingham?
Not somewhere id send my kids (no matter how good the course)!