Good Unis for Maths

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Clare
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Good Unis for Maths

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My daughter wants to study Maths at Uni.

Anyone know the best instituitions to study at.

I guess it would be best to have three top ones,a middle ranking and a lower.

Thanks

Clare
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Re: Good Unis for Maths

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A relly of a friend who got stunning (seriously) GCSEs and v high predictions for As - just failed to get into Cambridge and opted for Lancaster - My friend and I were slightly bemused by this and assumed that it was related to the year in the USA during the course...

until we saw this:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/tab ... athematics" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
cestlavie
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Re: Good Unis for Maths

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:lol:
That amused me as I strayed away from 11+ to see what I'd be worrying about in 7 years time. But seriously it is based on student satisfaction, not how the outside (or rather "inside") world views the maths courses.

My ranking (as a former undergrad maths and now working in academia) would be:

1. Cambridge
2. Warwick
3. Oxford
4. Imperial

After those "top" I'd think of the other main institutions - Bath, Bristol, Manchester, Sheffield, Sussex, Lancaster (yes it does have a particularly well-renowned statistics group at least), Kent etc. etc. (that list is not exhaustive or ordered). You can probably gauge relative levels from the admissions offers.
Clare
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Re: Good Unis for Maths

Post by Clare »

Thank you both.

She has shortlisted nine and wants to go to the open days of all of them!
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