English Literature - BA (Hons)

Edge Hill University

• Great atmosphere. • Staff are always friendly and supportive. • Teaches artists/writers and has an emphasis on the environment/sustainability, yet runs sessions teaching generative ai "art". Feels hypocritical.

Edge Hill University (EHU) is a great place to study at because of both the campus itself and the students studying here. The campus is beautiful and the buildings themselves are equipped with lots of modern technology. My fellow students are very nice, friendly, and always helpful whenever I have a question. There’s always something to do at the EHU outside of seminars and lectures. I do think the university could improve in terms of storage space in the accommodation rooms, however, this is only a small issue I’ve encountered as an international student who had to fit four months worth of clothes etc. into one room.

Best aspects I would say is the environment and the quality of the tutors. They have a lot of knowledge and I feel like I’m doing well to be able to keep up with work and understand what’s happening. I see people from other uni’s struggling to keep up because they’re being given far too much to do, I think there’s a perfect balance here and I feel like I have the time and space to actually think and improve in my studies rather than just making it up to meet deadlines. I would say there isn’t many bad aspects, though for certain modules, the scheduling isn’t ideal and there’s possibly not enough to discuss in the three hour creative writing sessions we are given. I think for workshopping it works better but even then, it feels like we’re taking 45 minute breaks just to fill time when the session could just be scheduled shorter. I also had a negative experience with the accommodation team. The accommodation itself I’ve heard is fabulous, but when I asked for advice on housing for third year things got difficult. (I asked if there would be any more opportunities for on campus accommodation waitlists as my current accommodation last minute announced an impossible hike in prices, and if not I wanted to know if I could have some advice on off campus accommodation in the area as I’d never lived in ormskirk before). The response I got was very blunt, rude, basically saying you missed your opportunity end of story. Ignored my query on advice, and overlooked my own admittance that I knew I had missed the original deadline but just wanted to check if there would be further opportunities or not. I don’t know if this was an isolated experience, but I think it’s worth noting

the campus is beautiful and ormskirk has good location links to liverpool and manchester. however with the reconstruction of the student union, it had impacted the night life aspect though this will be different again when the new SU opens.

EHU really cares about its students and provide many resources for me to succeed in my course and personal life. One thing I would say could improve at Edge Hill is to provide more well rounded social events, such as dance events or socials that provide activities for a variety of interests.