dpedin wrote: Sat Nov 04, 2023 10:33 am
C69 wrote: Fri Nov 03, 2023 4:07 pm
Biffer wrote: Fri Nov 03, 2023 3:42 pm
I could only tell you the Scottish ones and I presume she doesn't want a degree in Scots Law

. Sorry
Edit - however, having said that, some of the rankings are a good place to start. Times Higher Education supplement, good university, QS, Guardian all have detailed ranking systems that explain what they do their ranking on. The absolute most important thing, other than deciding a su ject (which she seems to have already decided) is visiting universities on their open days. She will get a better degree somewhere she's comfortable and happy - seems an obvious statement but a lot of people (parents) make that mistake. The only thing I know for certain about law degrees is that she should do a law degree, rather than a law degree that specialises in a particular area. Specialisation is for later.
Thanks, I suspect my early ish retirement plans will be put on a little bit of a hold.
At present she likes the thought of Oxbridge but a quick Google say Durham may be a good bet as well.
Both Oxbridge and Durham have a very large % of posh folk and I know of friends kids who have either loved it or hated it because of this. There is a very different culture at these places which isn't atypical of university life elsewhere. I know of one friend of my son who went to Oxford, hated it and took a year off to get his head sorted out. He eventually finished his degree but didnt have the 'best years of his life experience' he was looking forward to. You will be best placed to decide with your daughter to decide if she would fit in.
Oxbridge typically have very compressed academic years (8 week terms - named daft things like Michaelmas - so circa 24 weeks compared to around 30 for most other unis) so it's very, very busy. Given the competition to get into Oxbridge this can make it all very, very challenging - the actual course contents of many professional disciplines is governed by an external body (the Engineering Council set what is required to be able to grant BEng/MEng, for example) so they'll have to cover the same fundamental syllabus is a lot, lot less time.
There is also choice/allocation of college to worry about*, I know some who went to respectively Selwyn, Jesus and Churchill at Cambridge and it sounds like they all had very different experiences - granted, Churchill is a bit more STEM than others, the lad who went to Jesus studied Law. The 'newer' colleges seemed a little more down to earth, I visited a mate at Selwyn and we went into Queens College for a night out and it was like a young tory conference.
*I've no idea if you apply to the University or a college within the University