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Should the constituent colleges be listed as well? The nature of the University of London and University of Wales is such that they don't fit an easy "are they HEIs or sub-divisions of a bigger HEI?" line that Wikipedia often requires. It feels a little strange for this template to not have the London School of Economics, Imperial College London and the School of Oriental and African Studies on it given their widespread fame. Timrollpickering 21:20, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
Should we add Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College and University College Falmouth to the template? --Benjaminevans82 22:59, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
Partly in response to Federal universities above: This template is even larger now than it was when it was added to every page. Would anyone support removing the London and Wales colleges and replacing with
This would seem both efficient and fairer on the Doxbridge colleges, which have (esoteric and historical/snobbish arguments aside) exactly the same relationship with the parent University. In all cases, the University is the degree-awarding body, and the College is the largely autonomous seat of learning. It may seem illogical to cut out some of our best known "Universities" from this template, but this is a template for Universities and not colleges, however big and tall. Any thoughts? — mholland 19:22, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
There are several issues I with with this template, mainly how it has grown out of control since the last discussion on it in 2007 (above). The issues I see are thus:
They take the same number of lines (at least on my monitor, which isn't huge) and makes the template much more user friendly in my opinion. For reference, the regions I used were these. Anyway, I hope this starts some discussion on this template.--23230 talk 15:12, 22 September 2011 (UTC)
Honestly, I do think it makes much more sense to have it in geographical order. Having Midlands-North-South makes no sense, North-Mindlands-South is much easier to both visualise and use. I just don't understand what advantage Alphabetical order would have over this... Any one else's input would be welcomed.--23230 talk 14:42, 21 October 2011 (UTC)
I've added Ashridge Business School, which also has a royal charter to issue degrees. --Duncan (talk) 20:40, 8 May 2013 (UTC)