Is there much merit in a MEng for Computer Science?

Noooooo why? Cambridge is amazing no? I was rejected a couple weeks ago. As for moving to the US, visa laws have tightened and its difficult to hop across the pond coming from the UK. The H1B system is geared towards Indians these days
I was trying to prove a point re Cambridge, which I did, besides, it was cost prohibitive in comparison.

As for migrating to the US, improvise, be resourceful, or better yet, consult @JohnCena to set you up with a fine lass, and voila!
 
I disagree. I had an offer at Cambridge, turned it down, chose another good university in the UK, and have never been asked to produce my transcript except in graduate school. True, my mates, who attended there had job offers before I, but then I ended up doing much better. But then again, I now live in the US.

Again, in the Corporate world, none of it trully matters. You, the person, and what you bring to the table makes a difference.
what field do you work in
 
durham isn't worth it imo you're better off going to any of the other top Russell groups
Oh come now, do not waste your time and resources on whether one is Ivy league, or not. It matters very little which uni one attends. If one gains requisite knowledge, learns how to apply [critical] it, and possesses solid work ethic (from what I have observed most young people want to be mollycoddled, and spoonfed), and can deliver, then life is mostly [operative] grand.

How many of you here could work 16 hours a day on top of seeing to other responsibilities?
 
Oh come now, do not waste your time and resources on whether one is Ivy league, or not. It matters very little which uni one attends. If one gains requisite knowledge, learns how to apply [critical] it, and possesses solid work ethic (from what I have observed most young people want to be mollycoddled, and spoonfed), and can deliver, then life is mostly [operative] grand.

How many of you here could work 16 hours a day on top of seeing to other responsibilities?
I wasn't talking about how good durham is, it was more about the uni 'culture' so to speak
 
Oh come now, do not waste your time and resources on whether one is Ivy league, or not. It matters very little which uni one attends. If one gains requisite knowledge, learns how to apply [critical] it, and possesses solid work ethic (from what I have observed most young people want to be mollycoddled, and spoonfed), and can deliver, then life is mostly [operative] grand.

How many of you here could work 16 hours a day on top of seeing to other responsibilities?
tbh you did engineering, it doesn't really matter what uni you went to
when looking at consultancy/investment banking/commercial law, it really does matter where you went, it actually matters a lot- these firms have target unis which happen to be the top 10 RG unis
I'm speaking from experience, the more these types of job pay, the higher the competition, the more they care about the prestige of your uni- its public knowledge that the top firms almost exclusively hire from Oxbridge/LSE/UCL/Warwick and some of the other RGs depending on the field
 
tbh you did engineering, it doesn't really matter what uni you went to
when looking at consultancy/investment banking/commercial law, it really does matter where you went, it actually matters a lot- these firms have target unis which happen to be the top 10 RG unis
I'm speaking from experience, the more these types of job pay, the higher the competition, the more they care about the prestige of your uni- its public knowledge that the top firms almost exclusively hire from Oxbridge/LSE/UCL/Warwick and some of the other RGs depending on the field
If so, then why waste your time on those fields?
 
because they pay well for graduates, why waste time on a job that takes 10+ years of experience to start paying a good salary when you could just work harder to start earning it fresh out of uni?
Is that so? In the US, a Programmer starts approx. at 80K+ fresh out of Uni. A ChemEng starts approx. at 85K+. A CivEng approx. at 68K+.

How much does an Accountant, or a Financial Analyst start?
 
Is that so? In the US, a Programmer starts approx. at 80K+ fresh out of Uni. A ChemEng starts approx. at 85K+. A CivEng approx. at 68K+.

How much does an Accountant, or a Financial Analyst start?
im speaking from a British perspective, nothing pays well
I can only say for solicitors working at the MC/city/ US law firms (the ones with target unis)
first year trainee is 45-50k second year 50-55k NQ lawyer is 100-120k
Β£100k at 24 is hard to come by in the UK
 
apparently first year analysts at GS have a salary of nearly $110k
im speaking from a British perspective, nothing pays well
I can only say for solicitors working at the MC/city/ US law firms (the ones with target unis)
first year trainee is 45-50k second year 50-55k NQ lawyer is 100-120k
Β£100k at 24 is hard to come by in the UK
 
apparently a first year analysts at GS have a salary of nearly $110k
But cost of living in Britain is rather high, no?

Postscript:

I was once conversing with an older Sikh man guarding a guest house I was staying in Bangalore, and was enquiring about life in general, mostly cost of living for the average person. I was glabberghasted when he said he was making 200 US dollar a month for a family of 7.

Earlier in the day at breakfast, a colleague and I were complaing about our bonuses that year, which was 15 times his annual salary.
 

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Is that so? In the US, a Programmer starts approx. at 80K+ fresh out of Uni. A ChemEng starts approx. at 85K+. A CivEng approx. at 68K+.

How much does an Accountant, or a Financial Analyst start?
hahaha you would be lucky to start on 30K as an engineer in the UK. Big 4 Accountancy probably pays slightly better than engineering. Those working in IB at Bulge Bracket and Elite Boutique firms will typically take 50-60K as base salary with bonuses going up to 100% of salary (as first year analysts - as you progress the compensation gets significantly more handsome)
 

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