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I recieved Conditional Offer (because I am applying international, thus no interview) from Nottingham and Bristol, waiting on Cambridge.

How's Nottingham? in Mechanical Engineering and overall as a university in UK and worldwide.

By Elrohir (Elrohir) on Tuesday, December 02, 2003 - 04:02 pm: Edit

Highly regarded overall in the UK, dunno abroad. About Mechanical Engineering, you might want to search for the Times and Guardian ranking, and see where Nottingham ranks.

By H0neymoon (H0neymoon) on Tuesday, December 02, 2003 - 07:24 pm: Edit

I think it's like 11th or something... havent checked. But i'm british and I've applied to Nottingham, it's probabaly my number one choice here in England.. next to Bristol

By Zymosan2004 (Zymosan2004) on Tuesday, December 02, 2003 - 08:34 pm: Edit

thanks for the info. Honeymoon, have you visited the Nottingham campus? I have watched the video and such, but nothing beats visiting there. So if you did go, what did you like or did not like?

by the way, what major are you applying for?

By 22157 (22157) on Wednesday, December 03, 2003 - 07:46 am: Edit

Nottingham is a fashionable UK university, which does well in the league tables and government audits, and to its credit it has also recently picked up some Nobel Prizes (these usually go to London and Oxford and Cambridge). However in the big world it means relatively little. You will not find many Notts graduates running governments or major businesses and it has little long-term rep outside the UK (and is pretty obscure to the general British public).

In these respects it's similar to a dozen good Brit unis, ie Bristol, St. Andrews, Warwick, York etc.

However the real movers and shakers, outside Oxford and Cambridge, are three London colleges in no particular order: Imperial (for science and technology), LSE (for social sciences and now business), and UCL (for science and humanities). These are the places that stand out on the CV, on all the important criteria, especially Imperial and LSE: international rep, Nobel Prizes, pioneering scholarship, high per capita numbers of alumni in Who's Who, large numbers of name alumni and faculty, and so on.

In summation Notts is good but not that good.