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04 June 2010
Look beyond your horizons
University Links and Guides
There are numerous universities and colleges in the UK, so tracking down the ones of interest can be a hard slog. The following links provide rapid access by a variety of methods. For what it is worth, our favourite is:
UK Active Map of Universities which gives direct access to each university web site from a (Google) map of the UK.
UCAS has its own web site with search facilities by subject and UK region.
Braintrack claims to be ‘the webs most complete directory’ and it may well be, with 10,000 universities listed from 194 countries, including, of course, all UK universities.
Everythingyouwantedtoknow is the web site for the British Association for the Advancement of Science and provides a variety of advice.
There are also numerous guides to universities and courses. Many are published in book form and come out, freshly updated, each year. Those by Brian Heap are especially well recognised, including ‘University Degree Course Offers’ and ‘Choosing Your Degree Course and University’. These and others such as those published by The Times, The Telegraph, The Guardian and Virgin, are available from bookshops and over the Internet.
Push is an independent guide which has a interesting mechanism for narrowing down the search for suitable universities based on location and a massive questionnaire! Their greetings and jokes are a bit tiresome (or is it just me?), but the search engine is very good.
Unofficial Guides gives comment from actual students and graduates. Although a comment from just one student isn’t necessarily a good guide.
The following three links all provide basically the same help, albeit with their own, individual slant. Our interesting experience is that if you consult three guides you are likely to end up with four slightly different opinions. So, make use of them all.
The Times Good University Guide has a lot of information available on-line.
The Sunday Times University Guide provides similar information (strange?).
The Guardian University Guide does much the same job.
Lastly;
Unistats provides statistical information about teaching quality.