Trinity officially the best college in the country

desertcircus

The Sunday Times published their league table of the third level institutions yesterday. Trinity came top, unsurprisingly. But there was a big surprise in that UCD fell from second place to fourth place. Our new rivals as the best college in the country are DCU.

It's official - not only are we better than UCD, so are UCC and DCU...

Chick

not thats youre gloating or anything....

RuggieBear

desertcircus wrote:

The Sunday Times published their league table of the third level institutions yesterday. Trinity came top, unsurprisingly. But there was a big surprise in that UCD fell from second place to fourth place. Our new rivals as the best college in the country are DCU.

It's official - not only are we better than UCD, so are UCC and DCU...

How were the rankings decided.....what criteria used?

p

John

pekelly wrote:

How were the rankings decided.....what criteria used?

p

Two balls of string and a twenty-sided dice.

Nietzschean

anyone gone over to the ucd board for a gloat ?

RuggieBear

SkyLynx wrote:

anyone gone over to the ucd board for a gloat ?

Now now.....down with that sort of thing!! we will leave that up to our other underlings from UCC and DCU

RuggieBear

John2 wrote:

Two balls of string and a twenty-sided dice.

LOL....

Nietzschean

lol, well we could prove em all right about tcd being snobs and start thread's on it on all 3 of their boards

ApeXaviour

SkyLynx wrote:

lol, well we could prove em all right about tcd being snobs and start thread's on it on all 3 of their boards

Yeah, I wouldn't at all be up for perpetuating that type of thing. But fair play to DCU. Do they know yet in their board? (I'll check) An anonymous tip I wouldn't be against my beliefs. Just as long as nothin is said bout tcd. It's nice knowin these things, not nice sayin it..

Also I agree with pekelly, desertcircus, you be able to provide us with criteria by any chance? We science types need our figures I myself can't take anything at face value..

ApeXaviour

And thusly the league was scored:

It is compiled using a formula that rewards an institution's ability to attract high-calibre entrants above all else.

Four other factors are given equal but lesser weighting in the table, all of them with a fundamental bearing on the quality of experience for students enrolled at the 20 universities and institutes of technology included in our table.

The other four factors are:

# The percentage of final examinations resulting in first and upper second-class honours degrees — giving an indication of which institutions reward high-quality work with the best degrees.

# The number of graduates unemployed six months after leaving — showing which institutions prepare their students best for the job market.

# The dropout rate — showing the institutions in which students are most likely to be unsettled by finding large numbers of their peer group failing to make the grade.

# The student/staff ratio — indicating where students are most likely to get high levels of personal attention and where academics are hardest pressed.

That was last years anyway, I think this year they counted in research (which DCU is doin deadly in apparently)..


And DCU haven't found out yet.. I'm telling them


PS: It's 04:30. And I'm after finding a can of guinness in the fridge. After a night of studying for my resits and conducting scientific surveys of adult material, I feel I deserve this.

ApeXaviour

Hate to do a third post in a row but this guinness is lowering my inhibitions and my dog is barking (the latter of which is entirely irrelevant but utterly true).

While looking for the above I found something quite funny. A bunch of brits arguing over which irish university is the best!

http://www.uk-learning.net/t47787.html

It's great.. They haven't a clue!

"I couldn't say for sure that Trinity (Dublin) is regarded as highly as, say Galway, nowadays."

wtf!?

Slutmonkey57b

There doesn't need to be a survey. Trinity is not the best university, it is the ONLY university in the country.

RuggieBear

apexaviour wrote:

While looking for the above I found something quite funny. A bunch of brits arguing over which irish university is the best!

http://www.uk-learning.net/t47787.html

It's great.. They haven't a clue!

"I couldn't say for sure that Trinity (Dublin) is regarded as highly as, say Galway, nowadays."

wtf!?

That's a funny thread alright. Good to see Ecksor debating so well. Have to say (maybe it my nationalistic bias) that i don't really rate certain A level subjects...i mean if i had been able to study my three fav subjects i would have gotton high Bs-As. I know the A level supposed to be tougher course but English Irish and Maths (especially) on the LC really take up a huge amount of time. I for one never found A level Geography any tougher than the LC....

p

Chick

Slutmonkey57b wrote:

There doesn't need to be a survey. Trinity is not the best university, it is the ONLY university in the country.

Really?! Is UCD not a uni, no?

atlas

that was a fantastic thread - I kept reading out bits to the other guys in the office.

Nietzschean

yeah peop's i know all scored extreemly highly in it, being able to take 3 maths/physics subjects sure i'd nearly have gone north to do that...would have made life so much easier/more interesting than the lc..

Slutmonkey57b

RuggerChick wrote:

Really?! Is UCD not a uni, no?

Of course not.

ApeXaviour

Ditto.. Irish messed me up points wise doin pass n all.. English not so much but if it had been a sci-maths subj I reckon I'da done better. (french was obviously my 7th subj).

egan007

*yawn*

Chick

Slutmonkey57b wrote:

Of course not.

oh ok sorry lol, the whole UNIVERSITY college dublin thing threw me! :eek:

Chick

why is this a bad post? im sorry but i didnt know that?