Where would a daughter of an earl attend university?

[angel_vixen]

Where: London, England

Comments

[emily_shore]

Well, she can't have studied journalism at Oxford (or Cambridge I think). Neither of them offer the degree - a bit too vocational. If she went there she's far more likely to have read English (or PPE, or History, or...) and written for a student newspaper.

Oxbridge is certainly an obvious one. Beyond that, both St Andrews and Durham have a bit of a reputation for posh people who didn't make it into Oxbridge. (I'm being slightly unfair here, but it's a reputation.)

[angel_vixen]

Would it be feasible for her to have read English (or PPE, or History, or...), and taken that and hands-on experience at a student newspaper to translate into a job in the journalism field?

[emily_shore]

Absolutely, in fact my sense is that it would be far more usual.

[yiskah]

I agree that this would be much more likely. NB - PPE is only at Oxford; SPS (social and political sciences) would be the closest Cambridge equivalent.

[alassenya]

Given that your story is present day, she is unlikely to use her title in her work as it would be a disadvantage in almost all fields of journalism. She would remain Lady Firstname Lastname socially (on invitations, at formal functions), but at work would probably ask to be referred to as Ms Lastname and if she had a byline it would be just Firstname Lastname.

[thismaz]

She would probably go to any of the Russell Group Universities - http://www.russellgroup.ac.uk/our-universities/ - because they are the most prestigious and that's where her school would direct her to apply. From that page there are links to each university's own web sites where you can see what subjects they teach.
But I agree with emily_shore a degree in any subject, coupled with experience would be at least as common a route in as a degree in journalism.
Important to remember that we do not refer to university as "school". In the UK you leave school at 18, at the latest. Nor do we "graduate" from school.

[inamac]

It's also possible that she'd go to a US or European university (if you'd feel more comfortable writing her at, say, Brown).

[profbutters]

It's also important to remember that at either Oxford or Cambridge, you're going to have a lot of specialty language for different stuff. It's not necessarily hard to find out, but there's a lot of slang.

[sidheag]

Tbh, once you're outside the immediate royal family, it's not going to be any different for her than for any other child of a well-off family. In particular remember that she has to get the right A level grades for where she's applying!

Where wealth will make a difference:

- you could plausibly have her having attended an independent (private) school, possibly boarding.

- she may have done unpaid internships to get experience for her career - a social hot potato at the moment is how the importance of these makes it harder for people whose parents can't support them to get into certain fields.