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The thing is that in TSR most people say Manchester is just a second-tier university,
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Think it is on the whole. But some subjects are better than others. A course which asks for higher entry grades is more popular and that means either it is a subject for which Manchester has a very good reputation, or it is hard (eg medicine). It's not number 1, but it's very very popular and lots of students want to go there for the lifestyle (basically Manchester is quite fashionable I think).
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whereas in India it is quite highly regarded and more well known than universities like Warwick and Bristol, infact some people here consider it to be among the best universities in the world after Oxford and Cambridge.
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I suspect it is well-known in India because of the high number of Indians living in Manchester, and the fact that Manchester uni is huge. Warwick Uni is tiny for the UK, so you're really unlikely to meet a Warwick grad.
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Is it as well-known in North America?
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Probably not, but nowhere is. They don't do Geography and cannot name a UK city other than London on the whole (in the same way people in the UK only really know Harvard and Yale in the US, though they will assume that every large city has a university).
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But if like you said the particular subject your studying is more important than the university as whole, then I guess Manchester is pretty good since its one of only two universities in UK, along with London School of Economics, that has a 6* Accounting and Finance department and its business school is also quite reputable.
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Sounds good.
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Also how is the education system in the UK, like how are the lectures and classrooms like? And how many hours on an average do you have classes for Masters courses
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I haven't got a clue what the lectures and classrooms are like at Manchester. Usually lectures in the UK are taught to a really big class and then you have smaller (10 students, or 2 at Oxbridge) tutorial classes as well. However, masters classes are generally much smaller. My masters had only 20 students. But this was Biology at York. Really you need to ask at the student room to find someone who actually goes to Manchester uni.