Which University?!?

Burning Eclipse

Seems like a simple enough question... Which university do you want to go to?

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055049951

^ Thread deals with that question, but I want to know which University you'd go to if every one had your first choice course? Let's pretend medicine in TCD is identical to medicine in UCC and UL and DCU and WIT (even if the college currently doesn't have it). Wanna do animation but wish you could do it in Galway... Heres the place to say it!

What would shape your decisions?

Would you choose Trinity because of prestige and being in the heart of the capital?

Would you choose UL because of the excellent sports facilities?

Would you choose UCC because George Boole attended?

Lookin forward to seein how this turns out.

If you're doing a poll you'd better include Maynooth!

Burning Eclipse

Myth wrote:

If you're doing a poll you'd better include Maynooth!

Worth including for the magnificent Gunn Chapel alone

fonpokno

i'd choose trinity just because the 15B goes from my house to trinity and then back!

md99

UCC, as before

fonpokno

fonpokno wrote:

i'd choose trinity just because the 15B goes from my house to trinity and then back!

Bah, all the 15s have been moved back to Eden Quay

tolosenc

Trinners. Coz it's for winners, loike.

Corruptedmorals

Ah here, why was University of Dublin changed to TCD? I wanted to see the 'what's the University of Dublin?' posts! Im going there anyway, because it does the course I want, not for it's prestige tbh. Sure I could go to maynooth, it's 5 minutes on a bus or train..but it has no courses I want..

Corruptedmorals

Corruptedmorals wrote:

Ah here, why was University of Dublin changed to TCD? I wanted to see the 'what's the University of Dublin?' posts!

That's another thread.

fonpokno

Myth wrote:

Bah, all the 15s have been moved back to Eden Quay

yes and that makes everyone sad cos they never show up anymore... but they still pass trinity! which works for me!

Burning Eclipse

Corruptedmorals wrote:

Ah here, why was University of Dublin changed to TCD? I wanted to see the 'what's the University of Dublin?' posts! Im going there anyway, because it does the course I want, not for it's prestige tbh. Sure I could go to maynooth, it's 5 minutes on a bus or train..but it has no courses I want..

Out of interest, did you read my original post?!

Marshy

md99 wrote:

UCC, as before

Not aspiring to go to Irelands best no? Referring to Trinity of course. I suppose I cant expect country folk to find their way around the big city.

Thomas_S_Hunterson

Trinity of course, gorgeous period mouldings...

schwaaaaa

Trinity strteakin ahead!!!:D

cotwold

sean_keevey wrote:

Trinity of course, gorgeous period mouldings...

Don’t forget those cobbles, just oozing with austere grandeur that scream of superiority.

nick23

Yeah has to be UCD. Better facilities... better school....

delta_bravo

schwaaaaa wrote:

Trinity strteakin ahead!!!:D

Yeah. that doesnt mean these people will be there next september though

Rozabeez

To be honest I'd LOVE to go to UL, it looks like such a good college. But there were no courses for lil old me. So TCD first then LIT.

Attol

Trinity because I can get the bus from across the road from my house to Nassau Street a hell of a lot easier than to UCD even though it's technically closer. The 46A is the slowest bus in the world in the morning.

It has some gorgeous buildings. Really has a collegey feel to it whereas UCD is a soulless concrete mess.

The exchange programmes seem very well done and they have links to pretty much everywhere in the world which is handy since I plan to do a semester abroad.

The business courses in TCD and UCD both seemed quite similar but TCD just has more perks.

I want to move away from Ireland and I think Trinity is better known worldwide so would be more impressive on a CV.

Pure Cork

I'll do engineering in UCD or CIT. There's an outside chance I'd go to UL but the facilities, courses, and reputation for engineering in UCD and CIT are top class. The whole idea of prestige (particularly in relation to NUI and TCD) is absolute b*ll. Then again, CIT graduates have only gone to places like Imperial and MIT(!)

Corruptedmorals

Marshy wrote:

Not aspiring to go to Irelands best no? Referring to Trinity of course. I suppose I cant expect country folk to find their way around the big city.

Snobby post, much?

Naikon

Dublin Institute of Technology:)

delta_bravo

Marshy wrote:

Not aspiring to go to Irelands best no? Referring to Trinity of course.

As a leaving cert student what do you base this upon? Just wondering

Marshy

Well Im just basing it on the rankings of Irish universities. http://extras.timesonline.co.uk/pdfs/irishleague.pdf

md99

delta_bravo wrote:

As a leaving cert student what do you base this upon? Just wondering

Haven't we dicussed this?

Ignore, Ignore!

Frost should have written a poem about it.

Haven't a Clue

Marshy wrote:

Not aspiring to go to Irelands best no? Referring to Trinity of course. I suppose I cant expect country folk to find their way around the big city.

Nor can us culchie folk expect Dubs to find their way out of the big city to exotic places like Galway or Cork. Pfft.

Marshy

Haven't a Clue wrote:

Nor can us culchie folk expect Dubs to find their way out of the big city to exotic places like Galway or Cork. Pfft.

Touché! I was being facetious when I made that comment by the way. I understand your sentiments but being someone who spends much of their holidays in the west of Ireland I don't consider myself one of those people.

Pure Cork

I'm sure you realise that those league tables are a load of cr*p. If you have enough sense you'd take them with a pinch of salt.

Marshy

Pure Cork wrote:

I'm sure you realise that those league tables are a load of cr*p. If you have enough sense you'd take them with a pinch of salt.

I dont pay any notice of them but I was asked on what I based the fact trinity is "Irelands best".

Orizio

Marshy wrote:

Not aspiring to go to Irelands best no? Referring to Trinity of course. I suppose I cant expect country folk to find their way around the big city.

This is surely one of the most ignorant elitist posts I have seen on these boards.I hope your 'trying' to be amusing.

Edit=Forget about the above.

UCC is an excellent university md99, not a concrete jungle like so many other Irish universities.I would generally avoid living in Dublin(if you live outside of the pale) and stick to one of the smaller cities.

Haven't a Clue

Marshy wrote:

Touché! I was being facetious when I made that comment by the way. I understand your sentiments but being someone who spends much of their holidays in the west of Ireland I don't consider myself one of those people.

Likewise being a culchie who goes up to Dublin regularly, and has yet to get lost, I don't consider myself one of the culchies you described.

analyse this

Marshy wrote:

Not aspiring to go to Irelands best no? Referring to Trinity of course. I suppose I cant expect country folk to find their way around the big city.

I'm sure I could give you a run for your money:D we're not completely incompetent u'know! lets just hope i don't end up being around you next year...assuming you can actually get there in the first place;)

Gone West

NUI Maynooth.
Nice and close to Dublin, for gigs or going out, or shopping, but you can live here for a fraction of the price. Campus is very big, open and nice. Good all round friendly atmosphere.

Also, Maynooth and UCG are now (as of 1997 or so) called NUIM/NUIG

CrazyStraighty

Go for UCC, I've switched to UL for my MA and I don't like it at all! Too far from the city so it's difficult to go the cinema or to the city centre. It would be fine if i'd never lived anywhere else but the bus service is even worse than Cork's!!!

cotwold

Orizio wrote:

This is surely one of the most ignorant elitist posts I have seen on these boards.I hope your 'trying' to be amusing.

Edit=Forget about the above.

UCC is an excellent university md99, not a concrete jungle like so many other Irish universities.I would generally avoid living in Dublin(if you live outside of the pale) and stick to one of the smaller cities.

Is it still ignorant and elitist if its true?

And as for concrete jungles, pfft can we get someone in this forum that knows what Brutalist architecture is and has a shed of appreciation for Architecture .

PurpleFistMixer

Just 'cause it's a special kind of architecture, it doesn't make it any prettier on the eye. : )

ZorbaTehZ

Ideally I'd like Trinity. But I cant say for sure, since I am still somewhat undecided what I'm going to do. NUIG would be second preference, really nice campus and city - or so I've heard.

Marshy as per last time, your posts are obnoxious, rude and most importantly completely off-topic. Please stay on-topic as you need to realize that there are a few of us here (not least the OP) who would like to discuss these issues.

Aard

Brutalist architecture grew out of works by Le Corbusier and the likes in the 50s and generally used plain concrete.

Moi même, NUIM for its music course.

cornbb

Its a long time since I did my leaving cert but I just stumbled in here to give my 2 cents... don't choose your college based on "prestige" - its not an indication of the quality of teaching, the quality of the facilities, the quality of the friends you'll make and the fun you'll have and, trust me on this, it will be the very last thing that (most) potential employers will be looking at.

Choosing your college just based on "prestige", in my opinion, would be very misguided and pretty sad.

Goddamn, I wish I was off to college again...

Naikon

Postgrad maybe:D

cornbb

Naikon wrote:

Postgrad maybe:D

Did that already - have nothing to look forward to now, hehe

Naikon

Ah, I see.
Well, maybe you could do a Doctorate(if you havent one already:p) or some other course,as the big emphises on "life long learning" these days is very evident throughout Irish Society.
Dont know if it would have "The college factor(TM)":D

cornbb

Well I only finished my Masters in October, I was thinking of staying on for a PhD but got offered my dream job so I said I'd go for that... Besides, everyone I know who's doing a doctorate complains about it incessantly. I'd love to go back to college one of the days but I have other plans for the moment.

Ye lucky bástards!

Naikon

:):)

cornbb

You still have to do the leaving though. As my dad used to say "You're not there yet boy!"

Naikon

LOL:D
Very True.

Marshy

ZorbaTehZ wrote:

Marshy as per last time, your posts are obnoxious, rude and most importantly completely off-topic. Please stay on-topic as you need to realize that there are a few of us here (not least the OP) who would like to discuss these issues.

A bit on the slow side there if you dont mind me saying. I posted that well over a month ago.

Naikon

Yet you still replied;):D

Marshy

Naikon wrote:

Yet you still replied;):D

Why wouldnt I

ninebeanrows

Trinners at all Cost

eZe^

Options Im considering atm are UCC, TCD, Imperial College London and University College London.