Best Manchester Uni?

[BlueMoon93]

Out of Manchester Met, Manchester and Salford; which is the best uni? It might be a bit of a silly question but I'm thinking ahead and those 3 would certainly be options. I'll probably do Criminology/Sociology or something.

 

[mcfc_ms]

I do Criminology at Salford, and in my second year. Its apparently one of the best for that subject.

I just do straight criminology, but there are quite a lot on the course doing crim/soc combined which seems to be more of the same stuff really. In just criminology we do quite a bit of sociology too

 

[BlueMoon93]

Great, when I looked on the courses and facilities etc. on the websites I liked the look of Salford the best. Which course of them all would be the best you reckon? Soc and Criminology, just Soc or just Criminology? Cheers.

 

[LongsightM13]

My elderly parents are unfortunate enough to have lived in Fallowfield. To be honest, all the manc unis are populated by noisy twats who live like pigs and treat the native manc population with contempt. Don't add to the problem. Go somewhere else

 

[BlueMoon93]

My elderly parents are unfortunate enough to have lived in Fallowfield. To be honest, all the manc unis are populated by noisy twats who live like pigs and treat the native manc population with contempt. Don't add to the problem. Go somewhere else

I'm a good lad don't worry. I come from a working class background anyway, so it's not as if I'm some jumped up, clueless rich kid who has everything paid for them. I would have to get the right grades first and pay a lot of the Uni fees etc.

 

[blue jim]

My elderly parents are unfortunate enough to have lived in Fallowfield. To be honest, all the manc unis are populated by noisy twats who live like pigs and treat the native manc population with contempt. Don't add to the problem. Go somewhere else

I live quietly.

Not in Fallowfield though, fuck that.



As for the question, University of Manchester is one of the best in the country. MMU and Salford are better than each other depending on the subject and MMU is definitely better run.

 

[Dobsy87]

It depends on the subject mate. If you're already living in this city and you're going to live out I'd say try a new, different place, but if money is tight just apply to all three then see what your options are. You get six choices anyway right?

These are useful guides:

<a class="postlink" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/universityguide" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/universityguide</a>

<a class="postlink" href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/education/good_university_guide/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_a ... ity_guide/</a>

The guardian one is useful because it includes extra information outside of the marks needed to get in and amount of research recognition. But be wary because I think they also let their overall rankings be affected by data such as ratio of men to women, nightlife etc. which makes some really patronising assumptions about the sort of lifestlye you'll want and the sort of way you will behave. Not that that stops the majority of people treating all students that way.

 

[LongsightM13]

My elderly parents are unfortunate enough to have lived in Fallowfield. To be honest, all the manc unis are populated by noisy twats who live like pigs and treat the native manc population with contempt. Don't add to the problem. Go somewhere else

I'm a good lad don't worry. I come from a working class background anyway, so it's not as if I'm some jumped up, clueless rich kid who has everything paid for them. I would have to get the right grades first and pay a lot of the Uni fees etc.

Good lad. The posh twats are definitely the worst, to the point that myself and my brothers 'paid a visit' to one particularly troublesome household and 'educated' some twats about how to live in a built-up area. Bang bang, you don't learn that in a lecture theatre

 

[mcfc_ms]

Great, when I looked on the courses and facilities etc. on the websites I liked the look of Salford the best. Which course of them all would be the best you reckon? Soc and Criminology, just Soc or just Criminology? Cheers.

Erm not really too sure. I didn't really want to go down the sociology route because I didn't do it at A Level so thought I would struggle (which I must admit, I do get confused with the sociological stuff more than the other stuff). I know someone on the Crim/Soc course who likes the criminology side of it, but struggles with the sociology side. Similar reasons to me, cos she never did it at A Level, but I also know a few others that like both. Its entirely upto you, if you already do sociology at college and enjoy it, then you might be better on crim/soc or straight sociology rather than just criminology

Its entirely up to you. Most of the modules that you will do will come up on both the criminology course, the sociology course or the combined one. I think we do about 7 modules per year, and normally about 5 or 6 of the modules cover all the courses. Then you have about 1 or 2 modules which spread out to the relevant course. For example we did a module on victimisation in criminology, while the crim/soc lot did something else.

I would recommend having a look around them all before choosing. I was told at college that Salford was the best place for social science courses. I think I put down Man Met, UCLAN and Huddersfield as my other choices but opted for salford. Its also piss easy to get to aswell, with its own train station, or just at the end of the Mancunian way if driving.

 

[Corky]

Manchester University is better than Salford which is better than the poly.

In fact every towns university is better than the poly hwn it comes to applying for things afterwards.