Last updated:
09 December 2011
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.
The Complete University Guide is an independent guide with numerous subject and university league-table lists. It seems to be being quoted by more and more individual universities.
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! Can be very slow, and its jokes are awful. Some of the information is four or five years out of date.
Unofficial Guides gives comment from actual students and graduates. Although a comment from just one student isn’t necessarily a good guide.
The following link provides basically the same help, albeit with its 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 and the Sunday Times guides are no longer available on-line.
The Guardian University Guide is still available.
Lastly;
Unistats provides statistical information about teaching quality.
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