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Posted: Sun Oct 01, 2006 2:01 pm
by twigletmac
jayshields wrote: I might change to one with a year industrial experience
Sandwich years are great - basically you finish uni with one year's experience already, IMHO definitely worth it. The pay can be pretty good too.
Mac
Posted: Sun Oct 01, 2006 6:26 pm
by jayshields
twigletmac wrote:jayshields wrote: I might change to one with a year industrial experience
Sandwich years are great - basically you finish uni with one year's experience already, IMHO definitely worth it. The pay can be pretty good too.
Mac
Yeah. The salary is usually between £18,000 and £22,000.
The larger salaries coming from the bigger companies, like IBM, which I would rather work for anyways, to get a feel of how the big corporations operate.
Posted: Sun Oct 01, 2006 11:54 pm
by daedalus__
Congratulations, Todd.
Posted: Mon Oct 02, 2006 3:32 am
by onion2k
jayshields wrote:Yeah. The salary is usually between £18,000 and £22,000.
How times change. I did an industrial placement year and earned £8000.
Posted: Tue Oct 03, 2006 12:37 am
by Pyrite
I'm back in school myself, this is my first semester to be back (since I left in 2001). I'm studying Computer Science and Engineering Technology, but we'll see how the math goes, I might just do the classes and graduate with a general studies or CIS or business, I really hate doing mathematics

Posted: Tue Oct 03, 2006 10:01 am
by jayshields
onion2k wrote:jayshields wrote:Yeah. The salary is usually between £18,000 and £22,000.
How times change. I did an industrial placement year and earned £8000.
That could be down to the universities reputation. AFAIK Manchester University produces the most employable IT graduates outside of London.
Posted: Tue Oct 03, 2006 10:20 am
by onion2k
jayshields wrote:That could be down to the universities reputation. AFAIK Manchester University produces the most employable IT graduates outside of London.
UCL? Or LSE? Or CoL? None of those have a particularly great reputation for CS. I'd reckon the most employable people with CS degrees come from York, Warwick, and Oxbridge. In that order.
Posted: Tue Oct 03, 2006 10:58 am
by jayshields
onion2k wrote:jayshields wrote:That could be down to the universities reputation. AFAIK Manchester University produces the most employable IT graduates outside of London.
UCL? Or LSE? Or CoL? None of those have a particularly great reputation for CS. I'd reckon the most employable people with CS degrees come from York, Warwick, and Oxbridge. In that order.
I don't know what any of those acronyms mean, but what are you basing that on?
I suppose I'm biased, and my information comes from what we got told on the Open Day...
Posted: Fri Oct 06, 2006 1:17 am
by RobertGonzalez
School absolutely sucked for me. I am so not a 'Sit in a class and be taught stuff' kinda guy. I learn a lot better when I teach myself. Unless I am getting paid. Then I can learn real good.
Anyhow, congrats on all who have gotten in to the college of choice. I hope you are enriched by the experience and I hope the education your receive will be exactly what you are hoping for.