<p>How rigorous is University of Oxford graduate study?
I want to know how great the university of oxford is for graduate study, and how great it is compared to the likes of Harvard,Yale,Stanford,etc. If Harvard grad is better than oxford is it by a huge margin?</p>
<p>There are several differences between US top universities and British top universities. Cambridge and Oxford are and will be great for undergraduate study (although there are differences amongst Cambridge and Oxford colleges: Trinity College and St John’s College are better than Keble College and St Catherine’s College), but not as good for graduate study. </p>
<p>Harvard, on the other hand, has the best Business School, Medical School, politics/leadership school (Kennedy School), and Law School in the world (OK, maybe there are rivaling schools at other Ivy’s).</p>
<p>How come Oxford and Cambridge are not as good for graduate study? Is there something that they have as a disadvantage? I am not familiar with what each university has, so any information will help.</p>
<p>Camoufleur
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Studied at Cornell and Christ Church, Oxford. Now in a PhD program at UChicago. As far as overall academic experience is concerned, the UK programs cannot begin to compete with the resources, personal attention, and professional preparation that you will get at an American school. If you want to mess about for a few years only to beg someone to give a cursory read-through of your dissertation, stay in England. If you want a serious education, apply to an American program–even a 2nd tier school will give you a better education than you can find at Oxbridge/UCL/etc…That said, there are wonderful, brilliant, students, and, to a lesser degree, professors in England. Just a pity they are stuck in a system that is, for lack of a better term, “second world.” Oh, and in England they put the ""s outside the period. A serious aesthetic blunder. Oh yeah, and the food sucks and the weather is worse than miserable. And if you think I don’t know miserable weather, just look at the other schools I’ve attended.</p>
<p>^^ Can’t wait to see college972 cry in denial after reading that post.</p>
<p>“Oh yeah, and the food sucks and the weather is worse than miserable”</p>
<p>Yeah, the post author was clearly in favor of Britain LOL</p>
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<p>This is ridiculous</p>
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<p>It is true that Oxford and Cambridge are and will always be top notch for undergraduate study, but they are equally good (if not better) at graduate level – so why you’re suggesting otherwise is a mystery to me.</p>
<p>The colleges have NO effect on the education one receives; they are just fancy dorms with their own libraries. Please don’t tell people certain colleges are better than others, it makes no difference where you stay. All of Oxbridge graduate programmes compare very well with Harvard, many are better.</p>
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<p>What qualifies you to make such a statement? Merely studying abroad at Oxford is not a real experience of it, it certainly does not give you any authority to comment on either its undergraduate or its graduate programmes. Resources above a certain point became redundant and meaningless, they are hardly grounds for comparison. It really doesn’t matter if Harvard has more gyms or coffee houses than Oxford. As for personal attention, most Oxford and Cambridge students will benefit from 1-on-1 tutorials with their professors, how can Harvard beat that?</p>
<p>I am not in favor of any school, that is why i asked for a comparison of Oxbridge graduate study and Harvard’s. As an American though, I would not be biased, and say Harvard ranks supreme, but i am grateful for the information that was provided.</p>