European universities providing the top Marketing courses

[terpitz]

A website claimed the following universities providing the best Marketing courses in the UK. I just want to reconfirm this from somebody who has actually studied in one of these universities pasted below in bold.

I just want to make sure that whether I am making the right choice here or not. I have realized that if I ditch the US and choose UK as a place to study, I might even be able to study in the one of the ''BEST'' schools of Great Briton. Sadly, I cannot avail the same advantage if I choose the States as my educational destination.

tier 1 - top UK marketing masters

Kingston
Lancaster University
Strathclyde

tier 2 - UK marketing masters programmes
Bristol Business School (University of the West of England, UWE)*
De Montfort University

tier 3 - UK marketing masters programmes
Leicester University
Manchester Metro University
Nottingham Trent University
University of Nottingham
Sheffield Business School, Sheffield Hallam
South Bank University
University of Stirling
Ulster Business School (University of Ulster)
tier 4 - UK marketing masters programmes
Greenwich University
Middlesex University
University of North London
Thames Valley University
Westminster University

* Bristol Business School (UWE) has a strong marketing MA, but both full time course (focussed on very recent business graduates or career change candidates) and the part time course (focussed on candidates with a few years experience) are geared to more junior candidates than the other courses listed in the top rank.
There are a number of other business schools which offer masters degrees in marketing (or with a very large marketing marketing component). At the moment we do not have enough information to be able to rank these marketing programmes with any certainty, but we will update this report as more information comes in.

P.S. I meant English universities providing the top Marketing courses as the topic.

[terpitz]

Two other universities by the names of Sheffield and Nottingham Trent are willing to accept me. Sheffield ranking is 9th in the UK - 18th in the whole of Europe and 70th in the world.
Nottingham Trent is in the top 5 of the universities of UK for graduate employment.



That's what they said. Is there a way to find the veracity of their claims?

[Jagsa]

I would caution you only that if they do not publish their methodology and are not clearly a reputable source, there is probably no real weight at all to the list, so take it with a grain of salt.

[terpitz]

Ok, thank you.

This is the website:

marketing masters rankings UK MA MSc MBA


Kalta Consulting <-- The people who came up with these ratings: (Their methodology is stated here

kalta consulting

Should I take their rating seriously?




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[terpitz]

[FONT='Verdana','sans-serif']An email from Strathclyde:[/FONT]


[FONT='Verdana','sans-serif']Ranking systems are sometimes subjective as different criteria is commonly used to generate the ranking system. [/FONT]

[FONT='Verdana','sans-serif']The Financial Times has ranked Strathclyde 30th but this is based more on the MBA programme globally, as most Business Schools are ranked according to their MBA programme. http://rankings.ft.com/global-mba-rankings/university-of-strathclyde-graduate-school-of-business[/FONT]
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[FONT='Verdana','sans-serif']Also, the Good University Guide ranks the whole of Strathclyde University 41st out of the 112 UK Universities. http://www.thegooduniversityguide.org.uk/single.htm?ipg=6524 [/FONT]

[FONT='Verdana','sans-serif']Our Department was established in 1971 as the first UK Department of Marketing and since that time has pioneered many of the developments in the field, including innovations in course delivery as well as major contributions to the academic study of marketing.[/FONT]

[FONT='Verdana','sans-serif']I do not have any contact details for Kalta Consulting who work in partnership with Career Dynamo. Although more information can be found on the website: http://www.careerdynamo.com/kaltaconsulting.html[/FONT]