I am loving my time at Loughborough and would recommend it to anyone! The campus is great-everything is in one place and you can walk everywhere. The people are really friendly, I have visited my friends at other unis and would still say Loughborough has the nicest people and vibe. The only thing is that the town is quite small, but Nottingham and Leicester are really close and easy to get to on the train.

My course is very intense with about 20 contact hours and about 3 hours of work to do each week for each module, with 6 modules. It can be very stressful but as long as you can manage your time you'll be fine! More specifically for a maths degree the step up from A Level to uni level maths I found extremely difficult, however you get used to it after a while. You will probably find yourself working a lot more than your friends who do other courses to get similar grades, so just something to consider. I do think you get your moneys worth in terms of contact hours and support. The maths department have a support centre where you can get one on one help with questions you have which I highly recommend! The main bit of advice I would give to anyone studying a maths degree (not just at loughborough) would be to make a good group of course mates- you can help each other with questions and when it gets hard you are not alone!

I absolutely loved my time in Royce and wish I could go back! The community and people are amazing and it it in the perfect location on campus. It is 10 minutes from lectures and 5 minutes to the library. The hall has a bad rep as it is not many peoples first choice but everyone I know loved it there. It is catered which is super social.

The campus is beautiful, especially in the summer, and as a woman I feel safe walking around even despite the high number of men attending the uni. The library is a great place to study with a nice cafe inside. On the downside, the students union recently removed a room which was used for clubbing mainly by minorities, which was a controversial move, but they are working to resolve this with students. Lecturers are very knowledgeable but as with most universities, your experience depends on the lecturer you get, there are some great, some less great ones! The town is small but great, and the public transport to get around Loughborough is pretty decent, especially on campus where travel by bus is free, so you can use them to get to your lectures whenever you might be running late, and virtually everything is within walking distance too.

We could use more time with our tutors, as after first year we don’t have regular meetings with tutors which we would benefit from. I find the contents of my course very interesting as well as the options we have to choose from, but others may find them limiting. Our overall facilities are okay, mainly limited to computers for use in coding modules, but there is no shortage of these on campus. There are weekly emails to students in second and third year informing you of work placement years that are being advertised, which is great when you want to find one of these, which i recommend to help you find out what sort of career you may be interested in. My own placement year has allowed me to remove some options from graduate positions, so even if you don’t enjoy them, it’s not a waste of time.

The town is small but cosy, and there’s plenty room for the entire university. Everything is within walking distance but there are regular buses across the town, and Loughborough train station has good links to London and Leicester, so you can get virtually anywhere from Loughborough

David Collet was far from my uni lectures and also the furthest away from town, so it was a longer walk. I requested a quiet room, and while I was allocated a room in the quiet block, it was next to the common room, so I often had loud drunk people just a few metres from me on nights out. There were no lifts in my block, so we had to walk up a tower of stairs, which was a lot of walking especially if you live at the top of the tower. During covid, I moved back home, but the rooms weren’t maintained by the university appropriately, and many people had mould growing in their rooms when they returned, and the water was not flushed per appropriate measures to ensure safe drinking water. Shared bathrooms were also not great, but there is the choice of en-suite which I didn’t request.