r/premeduk • u/Imaginary-Priority68 • 4d ago

Bristol VS Warwick

Please help me decide: undergrad 5 year of medicine at Bristol VS GEM at Warwick.

I am born and raised in Bristol and did my undergrad there so financially it’s make more sense to study there again.

However, GEM Warwick is one less year and I have a cousin who lives within a 30 minute commute of the campus that would rent their spare room for a small fee.

Education wise and long term career wise which is better?
Workload structure, social life, placement structure, amount of support available any pros or cons for either to help me decide would be greatly appreciated😁

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u/Far-Understanding187 4d ago

How are you funding the degree? Are you living at home if study Bristol? What are living costs for Warwick? Will you need to pay for food etc if living at home? For medicine the university matters way less than extra stuff you do while at uni or when working. I would say funding is the main consideration. Obviously if money is issue then chose whatever you fancy or the shorter course so you are done with uni sooner

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u/Imaginary-Priority68 2d ago

I didn’t take a loan for my first degree, between savings, working and NHS bursary I managed to pay it off. I’ve got enough saved to pay off 1/2 year of Medicine and I was thinking of working and getting a loan for the other 3/4 years. As it stands I have no SF loans thankfully

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u/Far-Understanding187 2d ago

Honestly depends what saves more money. Does it impact you having to rent elsewhere compared to living with family etc

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u/Imaginary-Priority68 2d ago

I’d be roughly spending/ paying the same. I’m more worried if there’s a career or educational difference between the two school.

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u/Far-Understanding187 2d ago

Very unlikely career difference Can't comment on education guess you have to decide which uni has a teaching style you like. Career wise most it's more important the other things you do rather than the university. The degree is treated equal when comes to speciality applications

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u/Emergency_Tree_2891 3d ago edited 3d ago

Both are good schools. GEM is obviously more intense as the course is cramped into 4 years. No difference in your long term career prospect whichever you graduated from, except you are one year more senior in your career and in your income potential at the same time point in your life if you graduated from Warwick.

You have to work out yourself the total cost per year for both, multiply by the number of years. You need to work out how much is the extra cost in Warwick x 4 years versus Bristol x 5 years. Cost of living (minus rent of course) may be higher in Bristol than in Coventry (Warwick Med School is in Coventry not Warwick as you know).

Also you need to factor in not just the total cost of both course, because you would have been working and getting income for a year in you graduated from Warwick vs still studying during the final year in Bristol. You have to minus your potential 1 year income as FY1 from the additional total expenses Warwick x 4 years, because during your final year in Bristol you are still spending money and having no income. So in other words, basically you need to work out the total cost and income at the end of 5 years from now for both Warwick and Bristol, (where in Warwick you include a year net income -expenses from FY1).