UK Uni is a joke

Uni in the UK:

>Year one: Literally counts for nothing. Grades don't matter so everyone spends the year drinking and whoring out.

>Year 2: Barely any lecture time. Still counts for a small fraction of final grade so everyone still just drinks and fucks off all year

Year 3: OH FUCK WE HAVE TO WRITE A DISSERTATION WORTH 95% OF OUR GRADE AND WE HAVEN'T LEARNED ANYTHING.

No wonder the UK is deteriorating. You're paying money to go to uni just so you can do "self directed study" and fuck disgusting club slags.

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Why go to uni anyway?

Like yours is any better. You are getting your forced gender issue class, or else you won't even graduate at all, and if you do all you can get are underpaid jobs or crippling debt. Keep the good work up.

defer adulthood another 4-8 years

It doesnt help that it also costs a fuckton

Which uni was this at lad?
I'm going to Cardiff soon, but if that doesn't work out I have a permanent at lefty Oxford

I 100% feel you dawg, finished up last week and i'm actually disgusted by the standard of it, especially for how much it costs. I want a refund. Also, UKIPs education proposal is great.

Fairly sure universities are a meme around the world outside of top 3-5 for each country.
Everyone seems to have stories like yours.

t. Meme degree that parents really wanted me to have

5 years of my life wasted.

Distance learning lads. Have a normal life while getting your education part-time. Takes longer of course but when you're learning you are actually learning and not being distracted but trivial uni shit.

My experience was at shit-tier Plymouth University. Admittedly not the best, but I was just on exchange.

I managed to be the last year that got in before they tripled the course fees. I thought I got ripped off, but paying over £9000 a year to basically get told what books to read is a complete farce.

I expected better from the UK since American education has such a bad reputation. Uni in the UK is literally just self-directed study and a drinking club. Might as well do Khan Academy.

Uni in America:
>Can't legally drink till 21 so American students just get smashed with their little red plastic cups
>Weird /4 GPA system that confuses the rest of the world
>Peculiar concepts of Majors and Minors which takes away the idea of specialising in any area
>Forced to sleep with another student of the same gender in order to prevent from masturbating or having sex
>Need to take auxiliary modules like gender & feminism in order to ramp up credits
>No such thing as a graduate scheme
>Get 100k in debt

But yeah I agree the whole 3rd year is everything is BS

>Can't legally drink till 21 so American students just get smashed with their little red plastic cups
Better than the degenerate lifestyle of UK first year students.

>Weird /4 GPA system that confuses the rest of the world
Because the "class" grading system makes so much more sense. "First" "2:1" "2:2" What the fuck?

>Peculiar concepts of Majors and Minors which takes away the idea of specialising in any area
In America you can choose your classes and specialize your degree how you want it. In the UK everyone is forced like cattle into the same shitty standardized programs. You don't learn anything anyway since everyone is drunk.

>Forced to sleep with another student of the same gender in order to prevent from masturbating or having sex
I worked and had my own apartment. It's all free choice.

>Get 100k in debt
I went to a State University for free. Scholarships reward academic success. In the UK you pay the same price that Oxford students pay even if you go to a useless shit-tier school.

Rebbit go back

You did a shit degree then, most Bscs are worth 10% at plymouth for first year and have lots of contact hours...

Should be worth 33%. There is no good reason why first year shouldn't be weighted equally with second and third. This system encourages fucking off, partying, and learning nothing.

No it shouldn't, second and third year are significantly harder and should be worth more.
And the drinking / partying here is a good thing if you're not weird.

...i want to go to a uk university for my liberal arts degree lads, suggestions?

I wish it was like this in here, the first year in college in any degree are the fucking hardest, 50 people enter the degree only 20 pass to second year, and then only 15 pass to the third.

I'm currently at 3rd year and I'm shitting bricks

What makes me rage about uni in the uk is the first year or so you dont even study the course you signed up for.

Im studying marine biology and had to take fucking law and history courses etc in 1st year then more slightly less random subjects in 2nd.

Dont know if its the same as the US but it really pissed me off.

every year counts you nigger
what you put into uni is what you get out of it after graduation

Ameriburger is confused because in the US they have to take (and pay for) completely unrelated classes like sexism and womyn studies regardless of their course. He assumes we have little lecture time but most their lectures are fucking useless.
Also you spend 2 years getting taught algebra and calculus because your school system is too third world to do that so when you reach uni you're pretty much illiterate by first world standards.

just LOL if ur not

oxbridge
UCL/Imperial/LSE

or specified courses at other unis +daddys connections / spare flat in primrose hill

I thought bong school was like harry potter

this is bullshit

You do realise that students are expected to study and practice in their own time too right?

>What makes me rage about uni in the uk is the first year or so you dont even study the course you signed up for.
Neither of those things are true. For a STEM degree in the US, you might have to take two or thee "humanities" electives. I chose a foreign language class and music theory. Other than that, it's all major-related classes.

Only dumb niggers have to take remedial classes. Those people are are basically attending the equivalent of Sixth form (college).

>live in Scotland
>get university completely free so it doesn't matter what you do anyway

I think I'm just gonna stay at uni and get free money for being a student in Scotland :^)

>UK
>post the flag of the Kingdom of Great Britain

How's Warwick for Economics?

This, at least my Uni doesn't make us take black history classes or else fail us. American Uni is a joke. Also most American Uni's make you take a room mate if you live in halls, at least I have my own damn room.

Maybe you should have studied something significant at a non-shit uni m80

They group students in double rooms so that one can snitch on the other in case he starts showing signs of wanting to shoot people.

Vid related:
youtube.com/watch?v=GsbIdSGwoEs

This student was obviously a potential shooter. If he had his own room he would have a stockpile of firearms and pipe bombs. The system prevented that by placing him together with a Chad to frequently interrupt his antics before his delusions became too severe.

>have to live with another guy in the room
>take a slag back your dorm
>roomate forced to watch

no wonder cuckolding is so popular across the pond.

Graduated two weeks ago with a CS degree and minor in Mathematics. Came out debt free with Latin honors and distinction in major. Smoked pot and drank 5 out of the 7 days a week all 4 years while playing video games. Suck a dick nerds.

>having to share a room with a literal dudebro
I think I'd an hero

When I was there we only did related modules then speciallised later, with still a good bredth

>Year 3: OH FUCK WE HAVE TO WRITE A DISSERTATION WORTH 95% OF OUR GRADE AND WE HAVEN'T LEARNED ANYTHING IN THE LAST 4 WEEKS.

Fixed.

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ye, thats a good one

not an oxford ppe ting but if you work hard and purposefully you won't be hindered

I got my offer.
Let's see if I get something worthwhile in India otherwise I'm coming.

good eye.

too bad you are a weaboo faggot

t. A uni student who never got laid

Year 1 is 0.

Year 2 is 40%

Year 3 is 60%.

Really not that hard to understand senpai.

You're all such dumb fucks. Only poorfags have to live in shared dorms to save money. Most people at least have private rooms, many get apartments off-campus.

Also perpetuating the meme that gender studies or nigger history is required when it is not.

I wouldn't be proud of fucking disgusting easy club slags. Getting laid at uni in the UK is as easy as going on a night out and choosing one of hundreds of drunk sluts.

You write like you never did though, which societies here were you a part of?

Thats the wrong flag user.

Basketball, Hockey, American Football, Eng,
I went trans and joined netball club too.

That's for the posh kids

How come you left before the summer ball then?
Your writing sounds like you were going full Elliot rodgers but you say you were a part of a lot of societies..

They add inflation costs to that debt every year.

It stops feeling "free" very quickly.

Yeah the year I went to uni in the U.K. was the easiest I've ever had. A lot of fun.

Look up the typical day at a university in Russia or China in comparison

First-year bong in uni now, feeling pretty good man. the government is paying me to get absolutely paralytic on a daily basis. i dont actually mind though because it was either going to go to me or some paki's with no job and 19 kids. studying law btw

Want my life story?
>Meet GF on her exchange year to US
>Go to Plymouth last year on exchange with her
>I hated the UK
>She just finished 3rd year and her dissertation
>She also hates the UK

Old fag who's paying for this shit here.

3 year Bachelor degree at Oxford/Cambridge costs about 1/3 as much as a 4 year degree from a meh-tier school in the US.

Outside London+Oxbridge, cost is nearer 1/4.

As an employer, I found most US grads worthless. Only exception is schools like Bentley which turn out decent back office people.

Which uni la

Don't go to at shit university then.

All of the ex-polytechnics should be shut down and reopened as vocational schools again.
The rest of the "new unis" can go fuck

>As an employer, I found most US grads worthless. Only exception is schools like Bentley which turn out decent back office people.
Did you fall for the *paying for college* meme? Good students get scholarships. Excellence is rewarded in the US. Why would anyone hire an employee from the UK when most students there spend 2/3 of their time at uni fucking off.

Alexei Sayle nailed it years back: the corner shop near his mum's home in Liverpool is now "The Patel School of Retail Management".

Go to a decent university. 80% of the universities here are no different from the average American "community college".

ukuni.net/articles/types-uk-universities
Almost anything that would be categorized as "The Rest" here exist solely as a cash grab from people that are going to Uni because it's the "done thing" or they want to get wasted for a couple years. Government subsidised watering holes.
I blame Labour.

I hope the culture is better at good universities. Academics wasn't even my main issue with the uni in the UK; it was the lack of anything to do other than drink.

Eldest was offered a scholarship by Chicago. Cambridge was still better, quicker and cheaper.

Chicago didn't even require election of a major until the 4th year. What a fucking waste of time and money.

US undergrad spend all their time stitching together a portfolio of easy credits. Unless they're studying something highly numerate, or something vocational, they're never required to learn anything soup-to-nuts.

YMMV, I'm sure things are different in the food service industry.

If you weren't at a Russell Group Uni at the very minimum you got fucked hard.

All of what you said except the first year doesn't count only applies if you study journalism or some other dogshit degree.

Don't come we all ready have enough of a problem with immigrants

>Outside London+Oxbridge, cost is nearer 1/4.
Tuition fees here are basically standardized though... I assume that applies to international students as well?
Unless you're just talking about living costs, but Oxfordshire and Cambridgeshire aren't that expensive

>tfw in doing biomedical sciences at manchester uni

Shit course at a shit uni. Ontop of that, im also getting braces done IN MY 1ST YEAR.

Fuck this shit.

In what world is Manchester a shit uni? Or do you mean Manchester Met or w/e the sister is called?

Im sure all these Austrian immigrants are causing trouble lad.

>Chicago didn't even require election of a major until the 4th year. What a fucking waste of time and money
Implying you can't select a major during first year and stick with it. Even if you change majors 5 times, you still have to complete the major requirements. Look at the major requirements for any STEM degree or other real degree. These programs have set requirements. I couldn't get my degree without: Four semesters of calculus/DE, several physics classes, several chemistry courses, 14 major-specific engineering courses.

Liberal arts degrees don't count as real education in the UK or the US.

Should have sent your Eldest to Chicago. Could have been the next Obama.

anything outside of london/oxbridge/or the old historical university towns you 90% just get a load of subhuman brits who have not been bred properly

Keep your delicious strudel out of our country we don't want it here

Manchester is a shithole. I had the option of queens belfast, b'ham or manchester. Norn ireland didnt have a good night life and manchester is boring. I wish i toopk birmingham desu.

So what shit do they teach you in CS? I'm about to go to college and I'm thinking of saving the money and just teaching myself because I heard you're not taught anything useful in it, I already know quite a bit of Java and I want to specialize in it. Did you do any of that or was it all logic diagram bullshit?

Not a poo btw

About four or five years ago, when I last looked, London Universities, Oxford and Cambridge cost about GBP10k per year more than the rest.
this includes some blurring of accomodation expenses and "college fees" for Oxbridge.

Thanks to Brexit, it all looks so cheap (for a dollar payer) that I haven't even bothered to update my numbers.

search.ucas.com/search/providers?Vac=1&AvailableIn=2017&Query=liberal arts

These are the liberal arts courses in our unis. I go to Kings College (doing a master's there). Keep in mind being in London will be a lot more expensive than anywhere else, but it's manageable if you share a house with other students. I share one with 3 other.

Depends on whether you want to be in a large city or small desu.

There are like 30 unis in London and most are nogos
Do you mean the city itself? If so it's at least better than Birmingham - that place is actually awful.

>Java flag wants to learn Java
You make ancestor proud little Java.

>Could have been the next Obama.
Sadly, he's melanisticly challenged, so not an option.

That's if you go for a shit degree, user.

If you don't, it's usually pretty hard.

kek never heard that one before, I had some Puerto Rican spic call it a lemon once

Right. I can't say that I'm familiar with how collegiate systems work in regard to any extra fees they try on with you. Also, tuition and accommodation fees are usually handled separately here.
I do know that when applying for a student visa you are required to demonstrate that you have enough money for living costs at about £1000~ a month. That's not to do with the universities though and I don't think living expenses would rack up to that much for most people.

>Burger calling out uk uni
>writing "black lives matter" 100 times gets you into harvard

UK university is shocking though. I was expecting an intellectual battleground, the exchange of ideas. But it's brain washing & hand holding all the way through. Standards of entry are unbelievably low, thanks to Blair wanting everyone to go to uni.

Anyway, good luck learning computers, i was too dumb to succeed. Also good luck removing roaches. Cyprus is neat, i went there as a kid and spent the whole vacation playing in a landfill with homeless people and wild dogs.

at least in London you have proximity to a global upper tier of business/history/people, you won't get that in cardiff LMAO.

its far better to go somewhere central and average like the university of westminster simply for the experience and the three years of hard observation / lifestyle

london is still the most rich, most aesthetic, most intelligent, best place to find bae location in the UK

yes it represents the fall of the West, but there still remains an old-breed there,

It's basic statistics:
>30 years ago, you'd need an IQ of 115 to go to University.
>That's +1 s.d. or about 17% of the population.
>Now politicians want 50% of kids to go to University.
The degrees (and colleges) can't be of the same standard as in the past. The rot started earlier in the US with the GI Bill. US college is now remedial High School (at undergrad level).

Where'd you go? If you went up north it's been a 3rd world Muslim hellhole for the last 30 years. The greek southern part is on par with Greece

Thanks m9, and dont beat yourself up about it, I can program decently now and I'm 18, no degree or anything. If you learn the basics it's fun and rewarding, and easy as all hell

GETTIN MESSY WIV THE LADS BOYSSS WAHEEEEEY SO HAPPY I TOOK WOMEN'S STUDIES

Yeah instead you're distracted by work and finding a mate and, presumably (normal life), children.

fuck off fatty i shagged 15 birds at uni and got a third

je ne regrette rien

115 IQ is still pretty retarded, I'd rank myself around 120 just because I was always better than most people around me, but then you meet people that make you feel retarded

Brighton uni student here
They force us to watch interacial cuckold porn
and to wear gay pride wristbands
please kill me

>global upper tier of business/history/people
That wholly depends on what you want to do.
If your interest is in Finance/Business then yes London and especially LSE (an actually well regarded uni) would be the place to go.
But if you're interested in something like Physics you're going to be surrounded by much better prospects in Manchester or if you're doing Linguistics you're going to find a lot more adept professors in Sheffield.
It's really not so black and white.

That's 15 cunts who will never have a stable family.

Going to Sussex university soon, anyone here been there? Seems pretty good but it must be filled with commies.

Anything to get out of Wales though

>be at math & physics department at ETH Zurich many years ago
>first year exams are all at the end of the "summer break"
>point is so you can study hard during the summer
>pass-fail rate is 50%
>many don't even try to get into the ETH as it is damn hard

Anyone who studies at a university and spends his or her time drinking and whoring is a failure to society.

The ETH Zurich is the top continental European university by far... for a reason.

>I can program decently now and I'm 18
>If you learn the basics it's fun and rewarding, and easy as all hell
You'll learn to hate it by age 30. You'll also pick up increasingly bad coding practices along the way until your code looks like it was obfuscated purposefully. This happens to 90% of coders.

>The ETH Zurich is the top continental European university by far... for a reason.
Money and networking?

>This happens to 90% of coders.
Once you hit 35 and started coding when you were 10 during the early 1990s, and you are still at it, you know what you are doing.

Coding is all about discipline combined with knowing when and how to use the right discipline.

If I see badly commented and non-understandable code, I know I got a rookie or a moron in front of me.