International Digital Marketing top-up - BA (Hons)

Coventry University

The staff are really helpful and they always find a time to listen to our problems and questions. I really loved the success coach program and I believe its a great idea.

The best part of uni for me has been the people and the freedom. Being surrounded by others who care about the same things and challenge how I think that’s rare. I liked having the space to explore different ideas, change my mind, and figure out what I actually enjoy learning about. Some lecturers genuinely cared about their subjects and it showed; those classes made everything click. The worst parts? Bureaucracy and inconsistency. Some systems felt built to confuse you whether it was admin, feedback delays, or timetabling that made no sense. There’s also a big gap between the best and worst teaching; a few modules felt like box-ticking rather than learning. If I could improve one thing, it’d be clearer support when you need it. Whether academic, mental health, or career guidance having people who actually follow through makes a huge difference.

Student support can be improved after the registration of the course, once your registered the importance and support gets less noticed.

The best aspects have been meeting new people, overall great teachers and the facilities were always very welcoming. The worst aspects of my uni experience, I believe are more related to my faculty where issues take a long time to get resolved and there's less support in comparison with other faculties, especially related to coursework and dissertation.

Whenever I asked for support I always got it (e.g. Centre of Academic Writing), although not all sessions were as high quality as I expected them to be. Vast majority of teacher were nice, friendly and approachable, some were even greater and extremely knowledgeable, I can only name a couple in 2 years that I did not like and felt that we were better off without them. This could be fixed if teachers were picked off more on their passion rather than supposed knowledge, so we don't get people teaching us who don't want to be there themselves. I love the high amount of students from all over the world, makes it such a good place to study if you wish to be exposed to different cultures and points of view. I wish William Morris, the building for the faculty of business and law, would be more advanced, like the engineering building is. I found this especially disappointing as a digital marketing student who not only was not offered any supporting gadgets during the course, but also is not able to easily make use of the "digital" in his "digital marketing" degree inside his own building. On this note, the amount of lecturers who were technologically illiterate was outstanding, again, especially since they are teaching DIGITAL marketing modules! So I really think they should be taught themselves how to interact with the tools they will be using to teach us before they come into class. All in all, despite the shortcomings, I am still glad I came to Coventry to study. It has slowly made me a better person, and more knowledgeable of course, and that was the end goal of coming here, so I consider myself satisfied.