This is real quote from one of the students doing MBA at Surrey
I am currently doing MBA at Surrey, This university is not for MBA. Reasons
1) The course does not look like MBA, it is an Msc course with few additions, not over all development.
2) Absolutely 0 on career guidence, I mean there is 2-3 sessions from consultants on how to search for jobs, is that called career guidence or support
3) Difficult assessment, people get upset with the results for the effort put in.
4) Professors teach in the class, thats it, no other support at all, they are always busy.
5) The modules are not updated, if you look at them, they do not include the latest content such as CSR, or information management, no integration of modules.
6) you might end up in a big group of 8 people to do your course work, resulting in fights and no learning.
7) Please avoid this school. accrediation is not the criteria.
Let me be clear both are pretty decent universities but the business schools of both are very average. Bristol's economics, philosophy and English departments are very good and top civil servants, officials of UK tend to send their children to Bristol if they couldnt get into LSE or Oxbridge but the Bristol business school is a completely different story
For Surrey, it is in a nice are and some of the courses are good but still you better go elsewhere.
What I still want to know is what are the others schools that accept you and do you think Bristol and Surrey will be the best choice for your self.
If in doubt, you can still wait a bit and evaluate your options