Fine Art (with placement year) - BA (Hons)

Loughborough University

It’s not student budget friendly. Societies, sports, food, and the union itself has becoming more expensive each year. If there’s so much successful alumni and connections then why is there little help to ensure affordable facilities? The wellbeing team are good at what they do.

Loughborough uni has so many great societies to join and many that you wouldn’t even think of - like the creative writing society or the medieval society. They have opportunities for casual, playfully competitive and properly competitive sport and amazing facilities which are free to book. They have a ton of computers to use which is useful to me since I don’t have my own. The campus is lovely to walk through and makes me feel very safe to walk around it at night. The downsides are it’s kinda a quiet town (though I like that) and the uni is about 30 minutes walk from town centre where the shops are. Student services can also be slow even though they are lovely once you actually meet them.

I have thoroughly enjoyed my time at Loughborough so far, the facilities are great both for campus and for arts specifically, with helpful technicians and kind art tutors and lecturers. there is so much freedom to create and I wouldn't want to be anywhere else. The town may seem a bit sh!t at first but youll grow to love it, especially the pubs. People are freindly, especially in art- thats where the coolest people are ;) Loughborough is so safe whether on campus or in town. The student union is a great and easy night out, but Nottingham or Leicester are right around the corner if you wanted something a bit more full on. My accomodation experiences have felt like home, both intown (Donkeydigs represent!!!) and in halls (Butler Court, highly rfeccomment for proximity to art and room size but dont go deluxe because its just two single beds put together and E block stands for Ewwww block, A block is slAy block #butlerlove #upthebut). My flatmates in first year are still my flatmates now and will be my lifelong friends forever. I can genuinely and honestly say that my life at loughborough and the increased social life and creative/academic structure combined with freedom and safety- I am the happiest i have ever been.

The best aspects of Loughborough Uni are the facilities, there is so much on offer here and always people to support you along the way.

Really like how accessible the campus is. Everything is within walking distance. Has a very community feel. Parking near the fine art studios needs to be improved. Stop allowing Loughborough college students utilise that area since it makes it much more difficult for university students to find parking on site