which college and why

munchie14

1 tcd
2 ucd
3 dcu
4 dit
5 ul
6 maynooth
7 galway

surely there's a reason for picking one course over the same course in another college like, we have done our english papers, surely our bs skills are at their best

celtic723

ul

1 Trinity
2 DIT
3 Maynooth

Prowetod

ucc

I would have voted UCC:p

munchie14

dcu

my bad lad:rolleyes:

RHunce

Op you never said why eventhough it was your idea LOL :pac:

tootyflutty

galway

Maynooth, DIT and CIT.
why? because of the course I want :rolleyes:

star-pants

local institute dkit, sligo, cork and the like

NUIG because it rocked
>_<

yummy91

dcu

1. ucd
2. maynooth
Because the course I want is in them with lower points than nuig and tcd and I like dublin:)

Isaac702

dit

Frankly I can see most of the answers simply being that said collage has the course the user wants.

Anyways.
1: DCU
2: DIT

The reason as I said is that they have the courses that I want.

munchie14

dcu

oh thats not my list,
it was me first time settin up a poll and i didnt know how 2 do it
mine is
1ucd-mech engineering - dono really why, sopose its the best mech engineering coarse round
2dcu- mech and manufacturing -place looks class, have mates there already- would be my first only for the imbread coarse
3tcd- because its trinity:rolleyes:
4dit me level 7 back up
5ul- class engineering and sports- to far away
6sligo- gona come good with this new found money
and if i have to go cavan institute im gona leave the country

cop41

maynooth

UL!!!!

WolfForager

ul

DIT because of the more practical Engineering, work experience and the fact that they work hard to get you a job afterwards.

mikeyb09

dit

1) DCU Multimedia
2) DCU Digital Media Engineering
3) DCU General Engineering
4) DCU Computer Applications
5) NCI Computer Science
6) Blanch IT Creative Digital Media

hopefully ill get into DCU!

Jeebus

UCC... sick of UL.

notGill

dcu

UCD because it has the perfect course I want and the fact that its closest to home (not too close don't worry).

Fad

ucd

TCD because

1. It's handy to get to
2. It's a nice college
3. I don't want to go into 7th year
4. It has the course that I want, laid out almost perfectly
5. I just kinda like it

It has its flaws, Science in UCD offers a lot more choice, and is just as handy to get to. I actually prefer the science end of campus in UCD (I dont really give a shít about the whole "Concrete Jungle" thing, I quite like modern architecture).

TCD still has a edge to it though.

All of this said, I'm developing a niggling feeling about Computer Science and if I was to choose that, I'd kinda have to go to UCD.

URGH! Being relatively decisive coupled with mild bouts of indecisiveness!

phasers

ul

Isaac702 wrote: »

Frankly I can see most of the answers simply being that said collage has the course the user wants.

Anyways.
1: DCU
2: DIT

The reason as I said is that they have the courses that I want.

This

lorna100

dcu

1. Ucd - only college that has the course that I want
2. Ucd - again only college that has my number 2 choice

djcervi

ucd

TCD because
I like their Spanish department
It's conveniently in town
It's a small campus which seems more friendly.

Although if I get UCD.. I'll be happy enough.

pervertedcoffee

maynooth

1: UL: Japanese and English Joint honours (fingers crossed) - I really want to teach these two subjects!
2: Crawford: Art - Back up plan 'cause I'm good at the ow' art.

cocoa

mikeyb09 wrote: »

1) DCU Multimedia
2) DCU Digital Media Engineering
3) DCU General Engineering
4) DCU Computer Applications
5) NCI Computer Science
6) Blanch IT Creative Digital Media

hopefully ill get into DCU!

!!!
Multimedia and engineering are two vastly different courses! I'm doing Engineering in DCU right now and a friend of mine dropped out in order to do multimedia... Also, first year engineering is common no matter which you choose and you can change your choice.

Ginja Ninja

dcu

lorna100 wrote: »

1. Ucd - only college that has the course that I want
2. Ucd - again only college that has my number 2 choice

Same as,and because D4's need smelly culchies to restore order to the world.
That and the campus is the F***** bomb,IMO

p1akuw47h5r3it

ucd

TCD cause they're the only colledge who offer Russian:D

Dante

ucd

1. TCD - Business and Computing
2. DCU - Enterprise Computing

poisonated

local institute dkit, sligo, cork and the like

1)arts - nui galway
2)business and information systems - nui Galway
3)art and women studies - nui Galway
4)administration and information systems - GMIT
5)hotel and catering management - GMIT


I want to go to Galway....Its a great city!:D

mikeyb09

dit

cocoa wrote: »

!!!
Multimedia and engineering are two vastly different courses! I'm doing Engineering in DCU right now and a friend of mine dropped out in order to do multimedia... Also, first year engineering is common no matter which you choose and you can change your choice.

Which one does your friend prefer?

haloauto

Stirling Uni, Scotland.
It was among the few that offered a joint degree in Computing Science & Philosophy.
The campus itself is very nice.
I'd like to live and work in the UK, so I thought I might as well study there.

star-pants

local institute dkit, sligo, cork and the like

poisonated wrote: »

1)arts - nui galway
2)business and information systems - nui Galway
3)art and women studies - nui Galway
4)administration and information systems - GMIT
5)hotel and catering management - GMIT


I want to go to Galway....Its a great city!:D

Woo g-g-g-g-g-Galway! aye I went there, 4 years fab time, good place to be

leesmom

dcu

ucd
tcd
dkit
cause they all have the course i want to do but so a lot of others but gotta stay close to home cause of my lil man:)

Nihilist21

ucd

haloauto wrote: »

Stirling Uni, Scotland.
It was among the few that offered a joint degree in Computing Science & Philosophy.

Those were the two things I was torn between, decided I'm off to TCD for Computer Science though.

-ilikeshorts

ul

Dit because its over 300 km from home

poisonated

local institute dkit, sligo, cork and the like

Fad wrote: »

TCD because

1. I don't want to go into 7th year
   
   
   QUOTE]
   
   Absoluteley if you ask anyone in our year they will say the same thing."Commerce in UCD".I like most of the peope in our year but I reckon that I wouldnt meet new people if I was to go to UCD.Apparently people tend to stick in their groups within UCD

Fad

ucd

poisonated wrote: »

Fad wrote: »

TCD because

1. I don't want to go into 7th year
   
   

Absoluteley if you ask anyone in our year they will say the same thing."Commerce in UCD".I like most of the peope in our year but I reckon that I wouldnt meet new people if I was to go to UCD.Apparently people tend to stick in their groups within UCD

I dunno, a surprising amount of people want BESS. I dont really mind them though, no matter what happens, I'll be at the opposite end of the campus, so if I do want to avoid them all, I could easily do that.

I dunno, I have fairly mixed feeling about the lot of them!

WolfForager

ul

-ilikeshorts wrote: »

Dit because its over 300 km from home

I like your logic

I want to go there to buy it's only about an hour and 15mins away (engineering faculty) so it's not far enough that i HAVE to move away but still close enough that i can drive in.. which is sort of a bad thing... wanted to move out this year

ALincoln

I'm surprised that you didn't put in UCC - it's an NUI college and offers exactly the same courses as the likes of UCD (and in some cases courses which are more progressive than the Dublin Colleges, such as the BCL Clinical and BCL International in Law to name but a few). It's probably the most student friendly campus in Ireland, and its small enough not to be intimidating (and simultaneously large enough so as to afford plenty of opportunities to meet new people).

mink_man

gmit!

SugoiHito

dcu

DanDan6592 wrote: »

TCD cause they're the only colledge who offer Russian:D

Just out of curiosity, why russian?Did you do it for LC?

Lucet

dcu

SugoiHito wrote: »

Just out of curiosity, why russian?Did you do it for LC?

It's interesting. Business and Russian is my third choice. I think I'm going to change it to second one.

My first two choices are UCD. I'm in love with that college

haloauto

Nihilist21 wrote: »

Those were the two things I was torn between, decided I'm off to TCD for Computer Science though.

Yep, if I had to pick between Computer Science and Philosophy to study, I'd pick CS. Would be hard to get a job with a philosophy degree, without further study anyway.

Risteard

maynooth

1. Business with French - UL
2. Business - UL
3. Law and Accounting - UL

Yes I am aware that the points for L&A are a lot higher than business.

SugoiHito

dcu

Lucet wrote: »

It's interesting. Business and Russian is my third choice. I think I'm going to change it to second one.

My first two choices are UCD. I'm in love with that college

Yeah,Im torn between TCD and UCD but leaning towards UCD
Yeah,russian is cool,language like no other!:cool:

Homicidal_jesus

well i would have picked ucc but not there:(

errlloyd

ucd

TCD cause its the 49th best UNI in the world, and its the only one in the top 50 that is a reasonable commute away. Need I say more ?

ALincoln

errlloyd wrote: »

TCD cause its the 49th best UNI in the world, and its the only one in the top 50 that is a reasonable commute away. Need I say more ?

Well, you could start by telling us what criteria were used to measure that.

errlloyd

ucd

ALincoln wrote: »

Well, you could start by telling us what criteria were used to measure that.

Why do you think I made up an arbitrary rank for Trinity.


Times Higher Education Supplement Global Ranking[8]
49th overall globally, 13th in Europe and 1st in Ireland, up from 53rd globally in 2007; 32nd for Arts and Humanities globally (up from 37th in 2007); and the only Irish University in the top 100 (there are 4 in the top 300).


I didn't do it, the Times did.


http://www.topuniversities.com/university_rankings/results/2008/overall_rankings/fullrankings/


Hmm I don't advise searching for any other Irish UNIs on it.

KokaNoodles

ucc

UCC because i live in cork, nough said

cocoa

errlloyd wrote: »

*something about rankings*

Those rankings are based on research, which makes them highly relevant if you want to go and do a PhD, but, considering the context, I could reasonably believe you are headed for an undergrad, in which case the rankings hold very little relevance at all. I remember when someone from Trinity fed us those rankings and I called him up on it. It's nice to see they're still using it and still getting the same elitist response...

errlloyd

ucd

Yeah, but ods are I will do a Phd, and ods are I will do it in the same UNI I do my undergrad in. Anyway those rankings are based on loads of other factors, how happy the lecturers and students are, among other things.

People here have no reason to pick one college over another, I pick based on a ranking. At the end of the day I love history, and trinity is the oldest Uni in Ireland, I want to study law, trinity has the best library, I want to be in the center of Dublin city.

However if I was doing engineering, I would follow my brother and go to UCD, I think its better for that defo.

ALincoln

errlloyd wrote: »

Why do you think I made up an arbitrary rank for Trinity.


Times Higher Education Supplement Global Ranking[8]
49th overall globally, 13th in Europe and 1st in Ireland, up from 53rd globally in 2007; 32nd for Arts and Humanities globally (up from 37th in 2007); and the only Irish University in the top 100 (there are 4 in the top 300).


I didn't do it, the Times did.


http://www.topuniversities.com/university_rankings/results/2008/overall_rankings/fullrankings/


Hmm I don't advise searching for any other Irish UNIs on it.

Firstly, do you think that an Irish paper may have a somewhat vested interest in seeing an Irish university feature in their list? Quite possibly. How is this done? Use selective criteria tailored to fit Trinity. Universities are ranked in many, many different ways. Some surveys focus on the amount of published literature emanating from staff. Others rank colleges based on financial endowment. More still evaluate on the basis of grades received by students. The paper chooses one of these methods - therefore this is not an entirely objective assessment - note that ranking tables differ the world over in terms of method and outcome.

Secondly, note that the accolade of "Best Irish University" is awarded every year. If Trinity was to be held in such high esteem as the ranking you mentioned above would suggest, it would monopolize this title. It doesn't.

errlloyd

ucd

The Times is British mate. Unfortunately for you and I value their opinion far more than any Irish based rankings. This country sees Trinity as some sort of English relic, its not its simply older and more prestigious.

cocoa

errlloyd wrote: »

Yeah, but ods are I will do a Phd, and ods are I will do it in the same UNI I do my undergrad in. Anyway those rankings are based on loads of other factors, how happy the lecturers and students are, among other things.

People here have no reason to pick one college over another, I pick based on a ranking. At the end of the day I love history, and trinity is the oldest Uni in Ireland, I want to study law, trinity has the best library, I want to be in the center of Dublin city.

However if I was doing engineering, I would follow my brother and go to UCD, I think its better for that defo.

Are you talking about the student faculty ratio? Because, according to your link, DIT is the highest ranked uni for that at 48... Also, it's a terrible terrible measure...

I honestly don't mind if you choose trinity, there's plenty of reasons for and against it, but I wouldn't list the rankings as either...

Also, there's plenty of reasons to pick one uni over another, knowing people who go there, knowing the campus, knowing the facilities available, knowing the subjects taught and course outline, knowing the clubs and societies available. All excellent criteria...