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  • Paperback: 527 pages
  • Publisher: Times Books; 2009 edition (16 Jun 2008)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0007273533
  • ISBN-13: 978-0007273539
  • Product Dimensions: 23 x 15.2 x 4.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
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If you're a 17-year-old, or his or her parents, desperately trying to find objective information, try The Times Good University Guide based on The Times's league tables published annually since 1992. This is especially useful now that there are no official government league tables to enable you to compare higher education institutions.

The Guide ranks the top 100 universities from Oxford to Thames Valley in terms of teaching assessment, graduate destinations, efficiency and other criteria in a user-friendly table. Then you can look up the subject you want to study and read a double page spread about each university--including statistics, contact details and miscellaneous information. There's useful guidance about application procedures and accommodation too. Armed with the knowledge that Glasgow Caledonian "has spent £350 million transforming previously mediocre facilities into a single campus that does justice to a modern university of 14,000 students", or that Nottingham, second only to Cambridge in the number of subjects rated for teaching at the highest level, has 14,315 undergraduate students and 8.9 applicants per place, you really are in a good position to decide where to apply.

It is difficult to see how anyone could make a realistic university application without studying John O'Leary's handy annual guide, although it's a pity it wasn't proof-read more thoroughly. --Susan Elkin --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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How do you find the best university for the subject you wish to study? You need a guide that evaluates the quality of what is available, giving facts, figures and comparative assessments of universities. Since 1992, The Times has produced the most widely respected and used university league tables. The Guide takes the key measures of quality as its focus, so you can make informed choices of university and subjects. Still unique and still controversial, the rankings provide hard data, analysed, interpreted and presented by a team of experts. The 2009 edition of the best-selling Good University Guide has been further extended, now offering: Unique league table ranking to Britain's universities, which enables readers to assess strengths and weaknesses of each university. Over 60 tables giving the best universities for particular subjects. Advice on how to select a course and a university. Details of government changes to higher education. Guidance on how to apply and pay your way through university. Advice on finding and paying for accommodation while you are there. Two pages of information on each university. Detailed coverage of Oxford and Cambridge colleges.Information specifically designed for international students.

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5.0 out of 5 stars And the winner is...The Times Good Uni Guide 2004!, 15 Jul 2003
This review is from: The "Times" Good University Guide 2004 (Times Good University Guide) (Paperback)
The Times Good University Guide in principle is fantastic. Instead of telling you simply that one university is better than the other, it gives various areas of universities - teaching standard, lirary/research facilities, staff:student ratios, degree completion, employability etc, and gives them a score and rates them accordingly.

However this is not all it does. It reviews almost every subject you could think of individually. And gives league tables for them, e.g. It shows you that Cambridge is top for law, however Oxford is the top University overall, therefore if you are wanting to study law, you can actually see all the universities in ranking order and make an informed decision. Although Cambridge is at the top in nearly all subjects it is not the place to go if you want the best media studies facilities for example, The Times Good University Guide shows you this. This feature is invaluable as it provides a better picture for certain Universities.

The other thing I liked is that it gives an individual page review of each of the colleges in both Oxford and Cambridge, which goes into more depth than Oxford and Cambridge's websites and prospectuses; and the best thing is that it is objective, giving you a real independant view. Also if you don't have the grades to get into the 'top' universities you can see a university which offers lower grades but ranks high for each subject. Overall, I would say that anyone who is serious about getting into a University should read this, anyone who is unsure of where to apply should read this, and anyone contemplating Oxbridge, should definitely read this invaluable source - Thumbs up!

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3.0 out of 5 stars Some story...?, 26 Nov 2005
By A. Davies "DVD Doyen" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The "Times" Good University Guide 2006 (Times Good University Guide) (Paperback)
A good book but remmember it only tells half the story. The Times rankings are held very high among the university community but it is important not to base your whole UCAS choice on this. The biggest critisism of this book is that it does not include much information on individual institutions.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Very useful, but..., 1 Sep 2008
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I had been using this book in careers class to help me decide which universities I was going to apply to, and this book was exceedingly helpful for this task.
This book gives a league table of universities and also ranks them by each subject for example, Law or History. Another important aspect of this book is that it describes the universities making it truly invaluable to any A-Level student.
However, I only gave this book four stars because the vast majority of information is available online - in the Times website and also through the universities' websites.
Overall I would say that this book is very useful and definitely needed for any student who wants to make the right choice of university - after all it is one of the most important decisions you will make!
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