Social and Political Thought MA

University of Warwick

The University of Warwick is a fantastic campus university that offers many events and activities. It has a really close community feeling and has a start of the art gym with a climbing area. Additionally, the faculty of arts building is a beautiful and open space to work. There are many places to eat or carb a coffee, although they can be fairly pricey. Warwick has connections to Leamington and Coventry. Leamington in particular is a historic place and great student hub with many clubs to attend. Coventry has the Wave an impressive indoor waterpark that overlooks the city. Warwick is a diverse university and offers many opportunities to get in loved and the arts centre onsite hosts famous guest to come and talk including Richard Dawkins and Jimmy Carr. The university also has an emphasis upon looking after the mental health of its students and departments hosts Alpacca meetings for mental health or study sessions where you can play presidential board games and catch up with your peers. The teaching staff are fantastic, in my department sometimes we even clap after an outstanding lecture and they are always looking for student feedback to constantly improve.

I love that Warwick is a campus Uni, you can always meet new people that are studying something completely different and have an inspiring chat. The campus is also perfect for a buzzing society life which I’ve very much enjoyed throughout my time at Uni.

Best: campus has everything you need i.e., doctors surgery, shop, pharmacy etc., good teaching, amazing library facilities Worst: academic support, wellbeing team hard to access

It has great student support for academic worries and for future career guidance The campus is a nice place with lots of facilities The location is on the outskirts of everything else but this isn’t too bad once you move from campus into leamington

The Sports Centre, the FAB, and the Oculus are all great buildings. Many of the others are showing their age, however. Location is ideal if you prefer a more quiet place with relatively easy access to the rest of England. London is only 1-2 hours away, providing easy access to careers events in the City.

The university of Warwick SU helps to create a very warm welcoming atmosphere for freshers like myself. The SU offers many clubs, events and activities for students to participate in both relating to studies and hobbies. I myself am in esports where I have managed to meet some great people. The Warwick university could improve on facilities and student support, perhaps making personal tutor meetings more often, and provide the SU more resources. In regard to facilities their has been a £60 million investment announced recently, hopefully improving upon the campus.