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On 11/11/2007, Simon Williams <simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I'm in my second year of CS at Bristol Uni. Personally I think Bristol > are the best for CS. I guess it depends what grades you are likely to > get. Bristol, Bath and Southampton (the uni's I looked at) are in the > top 5 for CS in every listing I've seen. They all want AAB grades, > whereas Exeter only wants BBC or something IIRC, which might give you > some idea of the relative value of the degree when you finish (though I > haven't looked at Exeter so can't really comment). Entrance grades have little meaning - they just tell you how popular the course is, and I don't think any of the list you've mentioned would be in my top 10 Universities for Computer Scince. Imperial, Cambridge, Edinborough, Manchester, Belfast would be my top 5 - any listing that says otherwise about the top 4 is talking nonsense, as they are in a league of their own. Bristol didn't even have any specialist Computing courses when I looked, UWE had System Analysis, Kingston had something interesting combining System Analysis and Business, Plymouth was the only uni in the UK offering a Computer Systems & Networks degree (in 1995, based on a Postgraduate course) so I chose that. Plymouth actually has a very good course in the CSN Degree - Cisco sponsered and visited to cherry pick from that course - I know several people who went to very nice jobs at cisco where they received tens of thousands of pounds worth of training and invaluable experience straight out of uni. Also Plymouth has termisoc which I think is one of the better computing societies outside of the top 5 uni's I mentioned before. A. -- http://www.aarontrevena.co.uk LAMP System Integration, Development and Hosting -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html