mechanical engineering at uni

Try Cranfield or Loughborough pal, you cant go wrong ! Radirs.

It does not matter where, on this earth you live, the Interent provides you with unlimited educational opportunities. For a free, self taught engineering experience, you can even do home study at one of the moat prestigious Universities for science and engineering, MIT. http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html. Of course, this does not lead to a degree but it can supplement and compliment your engineering education. Also, a very good friend of mine began a list of all the Web aware colleges and universities world wide which will allow you to do research on the institutions of higher education: http://www.findaschool.org/.

Good luck with your studies. Remember, "you can lead a horse to water but you cannot make him drink". Use your head and think as you are watered by education.

MACA,

I studied Mech Eng at UCL London, back in 1979. Now my son is applying and his school lists 35 top ranking un iversities which they push all their pupils to go to. Of those the best for engineering are Imperial london, Cambridge, UCL London, Bristol, Surrey, Manchester, Southampton. Note however that every course is specific and a top ranking course, like mine may be very theoretical, as mine was, when I would have preferred a more realistic and manufacturing based course.

Good luck

Hugh Mattos

In case any of you care to know I thought I would just tell you whats happened recently. I spoke to Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen and they gave me a place straight into secondy year of their Mechanical Engineering BEng/MEng course. As things have worked out I have accepted the place and will be going THIS year.

Mad dash now to get the house done up and on the market to pay my fees but I thought why not ( like Nike says) just do it.

A man of action, fantastic. Now I can swallow my plug for 'my' college.