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Could anyone suggest good universities in the UK for studying cosmology at a PhD level?
Thank you!
Thank you!
cristo said:Ok, so you sound like a good quality candidate; well here's a partial list
Imperial, Cambridge, Portsmouth, Sussex, Oxford, {Nottingham, Durham, Lancaster, Kings (these are more particle physics orientated, though Durham have a growing computational centre)}, Cardiff (more CMB orientated), UCL, Queen Mary U of. London, Manchester (smallish group, focuses mainly on cosmic strings and defects).
I've likely missed somewhere out...
Do you have any idea what you'd like to do, maybe something related to your MSc project? Feel free to PM me if you don't want to give away too much info on the public forum.
LithiumHelios said:List seems really good, only other group of the top of my head would be Edinburgh, who have a strong cosmology group.
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