Feb 17, 2010
Birmingham University
I went and visited the Physics department at Birmingham University yesterday – I was at Cardiff last week and those two make up my firm choice and fallback, ready for when I ship off to university in September.
I really enjoyed my time at Birmingham, I like the facilities, the department, and I got along well with the staff that I spoke too.
As Birmingham is also the higher ranked university; and the one with the higher grade requirements, it is pretty likely now that it’s going to be my first choice (firm) with Cardiff being my fallback.
That means that in as little as 8 months; I could be studying in Birmingham – a prospect I’m quite looking forward to.
The Birmingham Physics department I would definitely recommend considering, when thinking about a UK Physics degree (as would I the Cardiff department), their research grade is very high, and looking around their labs and such; there is a huge amount of equipment available for research projects (and some of the things first years were doing looked fascinating).
