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Masters in Accounting

  • 15-02-2011 3:21pm
    #1
    pugw
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 635 ✭✭✭


    Hi I accpeted a big4 audit contract last november and decided to accept sponsorship for a masters! I hadnt really done anything about applying until now. I have a 2.1 degree now and should be ok for summer exams. Anyway I have applied for smurfit but would prefer NUIG, I was talking to a nuig rep and they said that there were only 30 places and that provisional offers had been made already and that many of those who had recieved offers had 1.1 degree's do you think it's even worth my while applying and paying another €50 as I only have a 2.1. Thanks!


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  • #2
    Celtise
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 457 ✭✭Celtise


    Hey. If I were you, I would only apply to NUIG if I REALLY wanted it. I applied there last year, was my first choice but I applied to DCU and UCD to cover myself.

    In the end, the one over it in NUIG gave me the complete run around and was constantly saying different things to me and total opposite things to me and my friend on the same day. They did not reject people until August, so if you'd been counting on it and rejected everywhere else you were up sh!tcreek which I thought was unfair. I also know a number of people who had NUIG undergrads and they still were not offered - in most colleges they give preference to those who are alumni.


  • #3
    pugw
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 635 ✭✭✭pugw


    Fu*k I dont think I could deal with the stress of that throught the summer! Would prefer NUIG closer to home and cheaper but they seem to make a complement out of offering people places so myt just go to smurf!:(


  • #4
    Celtise
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 457 ✭✭Celtise


    That's just my experience and that of a couple of people I know. Of course the person over it this year could be totally different.

    Of course you could accept smurfit or dcu, and pay deposit and then pull out if you get NUIG. That way you're covered if you dont get offered, and if you do then you'll be saving a sh!tload with not living in Dublin for it to be worth it (in my opinion).


  • #5
    jdooley28
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 523 ✭✭✭jdooley28


    I hear smurfit is awful hard do, look into nuim its grand about 15 hours a week and only 1 major xmas exam!


  • #6
    sonny1ie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3 ✭sonny1ie


    I can only reply based on what I have experienced but the smurfit masters is much larger than NUIG (around the 100 people mark). I did the NUIG masters and if thats 'grand' per the other poster, then fair enough. Everything that is thought in the smurfitt masters is thought in the NUIG masters and you have to sit the exact same type of exams (the institute sign off on both masters). The difference is that the NUIG masters in my year had 24 students (there is no hiding; you attend every lecture, there is interaction in most lections, and the workload is intensive) and in my opinion, the best thing is that the Big 1(4) in Galway select from the NUIG masters.

    Hope this helps
    Any queries, drop me a message

    Regards
    Sonny11ie


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