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Next year I'm going to but don't know which one to attempt

From your experiences what are the good and bad points of both and which would you prefer?

[Old Gold]

One's full of fermers

They've both got different strengths. RGU has got a lot more variety in its defence.

[Swingin' Ryan]

I go to RGU and the general feel of the place is very, very 'studenty'. It doesn't really feel like a University, it's very Business orientated, to the point where I study Social Sciences but often feel I might aswell be sitting in a Business lecture.

It depends what you want to study. Personally I wish I'd taken more Highers and given myself the chance to go to Aberdeen University and do something like Cultural History or English Literature, I've got an Advanced Higher in English which I feel like I've totally wasted. I feel like Mark in Peep Show, who wanted to study Ancient History and ended up doing Business Studies and now lives in a 9-5 existance of perpetual regret.

If anybody here works for RGU and wants to use the above blurb for this years prospectus, they're more than welcome to wedge it between the Drinks Promo cut-outs and the Top Ten Student Anthems section.

[MattJimF]

If your wanting to do a more practical degree (science, management or technical) i'd say RGU, if your wanting a educational degree (english, languages or classics) i'd say Aberdeen. It really does depend on what you want to do. The worst thing you could do is decide to go to one because all your friends are there and end up stuck doing something you really don't have any interest in.

[Jan Deal]

I'd say pick Aberdeen as although it is full of "Aberdeen Gaylords" you will actually get a degree that is worth something, not the comedy one you get from RGU...

(waits for barrage of abuse)

[Rachie]

They provide totally different courses so it depends what you're wanting to study...

[thegreatcornholio]

Originally Posted by Jan Deal

I'd say pick Aberdeen as although it is full of "Aberdeen Gaylords" you will actually get a degree that is worth something, not the comedy one you get from RGU...

(waits for barrage of abuse)

I wouldn't go that far, but I agree that Aberdeen is for the more academic of mind.

I think most people who go or went to RGU (myself included) have done so because you actually get a degree that actually means something to an employer.

I could of gone to Aberdeen Univ, but didn't because I had an idea of what I wanted to doalready, and did a far more practical and relevant course at RGU that would get me there faster.

I'm not academic and would never attain to be, but thats not to say that its a bad thing. Its good that theres a choice.

[Chris]

Originally Posted by Jan Deal

I'd say pick Aberdeen as although it is full of "Aberdeen Gaylords" you will actually get a degree that is worth something, not the comedy one you get from RGU...

(waits for barrage of abuse)

At least you can get a job with the comedy one from RGU.

Seriously, despite the snobbery that it gets from AU they are both good at different things. When I went to Uni I had a choice of 2 subjects I wanted to do, English and Computing. I went to RGU because it's a more technical Uni and I'd decided to do Computing. If I'd gone for English I would have chosen Aberdeen Uni (if for no other reason than I don't think RGU offers an English degree).

[Johnny Mac]

I studied at RGU and now work for Aberdeen University.

Sell-out.

[Chris]

Originally Posted by Johnny Mac

I studied at RGU and now work for Aberdeen University.

Sell-out.

What do you do at AU? I know a couple of folk who work there.

I studied at RGU and have recently started working for them. It's like coming home.