Modern Literature and Culture MA

King's College London, University of London

The campus of King's has to be one of the most beautiful ones in London. The Student Union makes a lot of efforts to improve the university in every sector. I think sometimes classes and the university system is a bit unorganized, and I'm sure a lot of that is due to strikes and underpaying.

The best thing is the location and facilities, it’s located central London it has many places to study and I love the architecture of the buildings especially bush house. The worst thing might be just my personal experience but living at home made it difficult to socialise with other students the same

I love that King's prides itself on being a research-led institution and think the quality of teaching is really high. Being in London is an amazing plus as well, but it also means that it's unlike going to university in any other city as there is no immediately visible student population, and the best things to do are out and about in the further community. King's has great facilities, but as an Arts and Humanities student I don't really see them as the majority of investment seems to go into STEM. My university experience has been quite negatively impacted by strikes due to the stubbornness of VPs in the face of teaching staff calling for better working conditions, and there have been controversies every now and then about King's commitment to anti-racism - whilst I've been involved in university-wide initiatives, it seems the university still struggles to take a firm stance on combatting it, again because of the sustained interests of higher-ups. The administration is also incredibly ineffective, and I really struggled over my year abroad from their lack of organisation (e.g. not submitting my details to my partner university, and not offering support for us when navigating visa-related crises.) Overall, I've enjoyed my university experience, but to say that it has been perfect would not be true. That said, the issues raised are definitely not specific to KCL and are endemic in modern universities from what I can gather from discussions with friends at other universities both in and out of London.

The classes are good, but the scheduling has been really uneven throughout the week which has been difficult to adjust to, especially so during the strikes. Really messes with my internal schedule and autism.

Some modules feel as if they haven't had much effort put into them and feel somewhat unstructured, especially within the modern languages section. For example cultural transformations or global Iberias.