Alternative Prospectuses
Accurate: **
Comparative:
Comprehensive:
Detailed: ***
Independent:
Understanding: **
Problems: These are sometimes produced by the students’ union and the students who put them together usually have very limited knowledge of anything other than their own university.
As a result they tend to describe it as either the best in the world or the worst and rarely anything in between the two.
What they’re good for: The students’ own views of a university, however biased, are worth hearing and you can read a lot between the lines about the atmosphere, which otherwise is hard to pin down.
Verdict: Worthwhile (even the ones you have to pay for), once you’ve narrowed down your search to serious contenders.
Last updated on: 21 May 2008