Biology (Including Foundation Year)

University of South Wales

It’s the perfect location which has all of the main necessities in walking distance plus a good student night life on and off campus. If you want to go into the city, it’s only 10 minutes on a train. If you’re an active person, there are plenty of walks, hiking trails in the mountains with awesome views over the campuses. There are also plenty of cycle trails and lots of options for extra curricular activities on the university campus. Student support is amazing through lecturers as well as additional support systems put in place such as the chaplaincy, unibuddy where you can talk to peers, library support and counseling if you need it. There are weekly activities to keep you social snd engaged outside of academic stress and there are two libraries on campus to suit your needs. Additionally between the campuses there are numerous options for food, including plenty of healthy options, vegan, and vegetarian. I really enjoy my time here

Location is great, 20 minutes from Brecon and lovely landscapes etc. 20 minutes from Cardiff so get the city experience without being in the city. Lovely place to be outside, walk around, hike etc. Fieldwork and hands on experience of all courses is amazing with a wide range of assessments, little exams

The University of South Wales as been a really good fit for me personally, I love the location because coming from a rural village, it is near enough to the city center to have easy access however it is also far enough away that I can not get too caught up with city life. Being in a town, you have access to a lot of supermarkets and necessities. The campus also has a student bar and a student nightclub which are close to the halls and private accommodation wherever you choose to stay. The course itself has been great, it covers a broad range of topics especially in your first year. They allow you to build on essential skills to make sure that everyone on the course is at the same level to move onto more specialized subjects in the second and third year. You can work at your own pace which is a nice factor that I love about the course and if you are struggling, all lecturers will be willing to help you along. I have used some student support facilities like counselling and the careers team through the advice zone. Whenever I have reached out to these facilities, all staff have treated me really well and do their best to help. I used the careers team for application help and they reply quickly and make sure that the application is the best it can be. Overall, I'm happy I chose this university, they have assisted me really well and the course has provided me with the essential skills and knowledge I need to go into my career.

The students to teacher support is great, booking meetings is easy and they always try there best to make you succeed even when odds are against you. For example on my course recently we lost our module leader, but the module leaders have really tried not to let this affect work in the way that they are still making themselves available for support on modules they don't even lead. The new course leader has also come in and done a fantastic job, as part of our course we are meant to go to Africa and i think without him it wouldn't be happening BUT NOW we leave in June. The negative comes from the lack of support from the heads of the school. Im a student rep and ive had various meetings with students, lecturers and even the heads at some points and the interaction with them is always fake promises and diversion of questions. The student meetings that are also meant to have an impact fall upon deaf ears and the lecturers always advise us to put our thoughts forward as "it will have more of an affect than them bringing something up" but again these issues never seem to get resolved leaving people blaming the lecturers when its truly not there fault. So in essence the uni is great for student/lecturer relations but the support from higher ups is lacking which affects everyone studying here.

Really good, the university is friendly and safe. People who want a increased social life might suffer a bit as there is limited to do as the uni is not in a city centre. The academics are helpful and understanding