Let's Help Jibar Choose A University!

[Jibar]

So I'm putting together my UCAS form, and... well. I gotta choose which Universitys to apply for.
Problem is: I've only got one right now.
The UEA. The one that's pretty much just down the road from me.
So help me find more Unis!
And quick please, since going to have a look around would be nice.
I'm looking for Creative Writing degrees, somewhere in England.
If anybody knows anywhere good (or happens to be anywhere nice) with a good Creative Writing course, drop it here.
(UEA is the only one I've got because apparantly it's the best Creative Writing department in the country)
Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

[Tempest Fennac]

My sister's starting that course in a couple of weeks time. She said good luck wth getting a place due to how there aren;t that many, and you'll probably get transfered to English, but the courses are about 70% identical, but you'd need to wait for the 2nd year of the English course to do any creative writing.

[Krrth]

Normally I'd love to help, but since you're in England, and I'm American....unless you feel like crossing the pond, I can't

[Archonic Energy]

Oxford?
Cambridge?
:smallamused:

[dish]

One of the problems is very few English Universities offer creative writing at an undergraduate level. (Some of the good universities offer it at master level.)

*google*

Oh, Warick have a course in English Literature and Creative writing (http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/study/undergraduate/courses/depta2z/english/qw38/). Maybe that could be a possibility?

Edit: Found another (http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/ug/ba-english-creative-writing.php) at Goldsmiths (University of London).

One at Brunel University. (http://www.brunel.ac.uk/courses/ug/cdata/e/englishwithcreativewritingba/fulldetails)

If you take the entrance requirements as an aproximate guide to how prestigious the course is, then Warwick want AAB, Goldsmiths want BBB, and Brunel want BCC.

[Don Julio Anejo]

Out of curiousity, why the UK? I thought you lived in the States.

[mangosta71]

Nope. Jibbers is one of those crazy Brits.

[Veneficus]

Nope. Jibbers is one of those crazy Brits.

We aren't all crazy * starts manic laughter

On a serious note I believe Manchester University has a creative writing course

http://www.arts.manchester.ac.uk/newwriting/

Hope it helps!

[JettWilderbeast]

Come to Roehampton! I'm there! So I'd be friendly! (At least when and if I ever saw you it's a big place!) Thecreative writing course at Roehampton is supposed to be very good, I wouldn't know I'm a scientist! It's a newish uni so the grades arn't particually high to get in, but they reckon in a few years time it will be a very well ranked uni (98% of students leave with a first!)
The Student union is great lots of good events - huge open green campuses - one of four or five universities in Britain that do a college system (where you belong to a college)
And with a slogan of "Open spaces Open mind" what more do you need?

Oh and also it's on london, south side near hammersmith and putney - That isn't actually that hard to get to - Your in Norwich right? (UEA?) so it would be probably A14/A10 to the A1(M) down to the circular (not as scary as it sounds) and then its straight forward from there! (I'm from Cambridge so the drive is well known to me now!)
Also they have a RPG society but I've not actually had any kind of chance to get near them!
Whatever you choose I'm sure you'll be happy but Roehampton is best :smallbiggrin:

[potatocubed]

Honestly, don't worry so much about the name of the uni as the city where you're going to be spending the next 3-4 years.

So, step 1: Get a list (probably available on the UCAS website) of all the universities that do CW degrees. (Or English, if you're going second choice.)

Step 2: Go through the list and cross off all the awful places.

Step 3: Go through the list again and pick six places that are awesome to live (and affordable - London, I'm looking at you).

Step 4: Apply.

Step 5: Go to university, forget about studying, have an awesome time.

[Player_Zero]

Oh, Warick have a course...

We could be twinses.

Also, you might wanna' look at the newspaper ratings and tables and whatnot. Have some online too.

[Felixaar]

Move to Australia and go to a Uni here :smallwink:

Alternatively, you could join my fictional Uni, the International University of Love, or I LUV U. Normally we hold tests but your the Cat Muffin, so I'm sure we could get let things slide :smallbiggrin:

[Shadow]

I heard this place was great!http://a1259.g.akamai.net/f/1259/5586/1d/images.art.com/images/-/Animal-House---John-Belushi-College-Poster-C10112414.jpegPlus, they sell the coolest duds at the campus shop!

Oh, yeah... and...
nom nom noms

[Vampiric]

Hehe, Shadow, you crazy person you.

I don't know which unis do creative writing courses, but I can recommend some from people I know who've been there :smallsmile:

Manchester is a pretty good uni, and has the added benefit of having my uni a train ride away :smallbiggrin:

Sheffield is also good, apparently, Hoggy goes to Hallem, and my mate goes to the 'proper' uni bit.

London, while not being affordable at all, has quite a few unis, and several seem to be quite good... Queen Mary's College comes to mind...
And Goldsmiths and Warwick have already been suggested, but they are pretty good, too.

[Archonic Energy]

London, while not being affordable at all, has quite a few unis, and several seem to be quite good... Queen Mary's College comes to mind...

as does Imperial...

What?
ok how about the other great university...

Hull?
:smallamused:

[Saithis Bladewing]

Oxford is probably the best place you could go for a creative writing degree. ;)

Beyond that, not sure...I don't even remember your grades. :smallbiggrin:

[dish]

Oxford is probably the best place you could go for a creative writing degree. ;)

Beyond that, not sure...I don't even remember your grades. :smallbiggrin:

Oxford don't offer creative writing at undergraduate. Neither do Manchester.

Only one of the Russell Group of universities (that's kind of like the Ivy League of the UK) offers creative writing at undergraduate level - and that is Warwick.

Universities offering creative writing at undergraduate level according to UCAS (http://search.ucas.co.uk/cgi-bin/hsrun/search/search/StateId/DAKwMwvOQfGmUxTibe_Dn4tPCk6y--VtxH/HAHTpage/search.HsKeywordSuggestion.whereNext?query=1156&word=CREATIVE+WRITING&single=N).

Includes:
one Russell Group member (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Group#Members) - Warwick.
three Redbrick universities (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redbrick_universities) - Birmingham, Hull and Goldsmiths.
eight Plate glass universities (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plate_glass_universities) - University of East Anglia (already mentioned - has the best reputation in the country), Bradford University, Brunel, Birmingham, Essex, Kent, Lancaster and Surrey.

All the others on the list are post-1992 universities (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-1992_university) (that means they were polytechnics or colleges of further education before 1992. Some of these may be very good - we've already had a recommendation for Roehampton - but I really don't know anything about them. None of the online 'good university guides' cover creative writing, so Jibar will have to go to the careers library at his college and find the dead tree version of the Times Good University Guide. (It lists everything.)

[Saithis Bladewing]

Oxford don't offer creative writing at undergraduate. Neither do Manchester.

Only one of the Russell Group of universities (that's kind of like the Ivy League of the UK) offers creative writing at undergraduate level - and that is Warwick.

Hm, teach me to not even look. :P I'm not looking for Creative Writing, all I know is that Oxford has arguably the best English department, so logically it'd extend that creative writing would be the best as well.

[Vampiric]

Oh, birmingham is good! I went to look at B'ham uni and was very impressed with it. :smallsmile:

[Dallas-Dakota]

Wherever Curly or Bath are going?:smallconfused: