Univ of London 2 Place Top Intl Schools

I was very excited to see that the Univ. Of London Business school was ranked at #2 of the top International Schools.It was based on twenty different attributes. If this is the same school that some of our colleagues attend I am sure that they would be happy to hear this.. Published in the wall st journal 9/22/04

Journal Link---CareerJournal.com/reports/bschool05

Traderneil

 

My guess is it's LSB, which doesn't offer a DL program. However, all's not lost, as the "other" B-schools at the UoL--University College and Royal Holloway--which are attended via distance by members of this forum are also very highly regarded, both highly rated in The Economist" ranking of programs worldwide. The LLM that Mr. Osborne is pursuing is also very highly-regarded worldwide.

 

Yes, but in general, as we discussed in before, there is unfortunately no ranking of UoL External College anywhere (that I know of), not even in the Guardian Education supplement (please tell me if there is a rating, even in comparison to OU UK and to similar UK institutions).

UoL has many colleges, and when one studies in the DL ("External") college, one does not study in the highly-ranked LSE, LBS or SOAS (to mention but fwe. In fact, all UoL colleges IMHO have good ranking for at least some of their departments).

Some programmes are offered by the college itself (Law and Accounting at LSE, for example), but I think that there had been a discussion regarding that too, and people who already did it said that the leading college did not appear in their diplome. I might be wrong about that though.

 

I don't know about the diplomas, but I know that with regard to UoL External MBAs, there are very distinct lead colleges from which external students take their coursework: Imperial College (I have no notion of why I posted "University College" in my previous post, it bears no resemblance to UMUC at the University of Maryland) and Royal Holloway. I would liken it to the classes I'm taking at UMass. While granted the degree will not be in every respect perceived identically to an on-campus program, the ranking of that on-campus program necessarily has a huge effect upon how my DL MBA is perceived. Likewise with the UoL, which, whether the lead ciollege shows up on the Diploma or not, it will most certainly get play on the resume where it counts. As for Imperial College's MBA, in the respected rankings of "The Economist" magazine, it ranks 37th in the world, Royal Holloway ranks 88th--both very fine programs.

As for the LLM, there is no lead college with the existing program, and it's different from the MBA programs in that you're not really taking the courses from anyone, you're on your own. But your tests are graded alongside those who actually sat for law classes in the UoL without regard to your handicap--and think a degree thus obtained would be far more impressive than one gotten traditionally.

 

FWIW, the Guardian's ranking of LLBs is:

1. Oxford (offering BTW a DL MSt in Human Rights Law, but not through its Faculty of Law: http://www.conted.ox.ac.uk/humanrightslaw/faq.html)

2. Cambridge

3. UCL (UoL)*

4. King's College (UoL)*

5. LSE (UoL)*

6. Nottingham (also offering DL LLB) http://www.nls.ntu.ac.uk/undergrad/llbdl/llbdl.asp

7. Durham

8. SOAS (UoL)*

9. Warwick

10. Manchester

* All are basically UoL, but then again, so is the External College, that alongside other DL programmes, doesn't get a mention in the ranking.

 

The 6th one is Nottingham University but it is Nottingham Trent University (rank 28) providing the DL LLB

As for the ranking methology, it's better to take a look at this:

http://education.guardian.co.uk/universityguide2004/story/0,14612,1222081,00.html

It's referring to academic departments. There's no external college for this.

 

Sorry, my mistake:

Nottingham (the "real" one) doesn't have a DL programme, except for something that actually migth interest you - it is a taught LLB, but in HK.