Its a great place to study especially the facilities! I study animation, the computers are amazing. For second year however I beleive the work load is way too much. This is a new course and I understand that itll probably be changed for the new students coming in next year. For one assignment its about 4 months of work shoved into one assignment that you have about 3 months to do ontop of other assignments which is very hard to manage. The teaching is great, however there is some lack of communication between lecturers especially when it comes to assignments! Though overall my experience has been great. Ive made lots of new friends and potential friends for life. The environment around accomodation is great, but not so great at night time so I try to avoid going out at the time of day, I do sometimes feel unsafe walking to ASDA for example. The campus is amazing and I love it, especially poole gateway building! The environment is nice and calm. However I beleive there should be more computers. We have to render images and big projects and when its the end of the month when deadlines are edging near, all computers are taken usually and its very hard to render, its either you stay the whole night and render or not render at all. Apart from that, my experience at Bournemouth Uni has been great apart from some miscommunication, not enough knowledge given in lectures as its usually 'do your own thing' and read over or watch over videos in your own time, and outside of uni where the location of the accomodation feels quite unsafe at night especially in the town centre. I love BU and the amazing people I have made friends with. Its a great uni!

Its taught in class, and theres a lot of course hours (not sure to be exact). The quality of the course is great but a lot of things need to be improved in the course overall because its a new course ad we are shoved into the deep end. Theres a lot of miscommunication with lecturers when it comes to assignments set, for example in 1st year, when it came to marking some students got marked down on stuff we weren't even told about. This is not to all the assignments however. In 2nd year, its been a bit better, apart from the assignments are so close together, and we are expected to do 30 hours or more on each assignment each week (so 3 assignments up until January) thats not a lot of free time. I know its second year, but there should be some more time management in place. The lecturers have been great, the classes not so much this year as we are expected to learn more outside of class than inside of class. I believe for the amount im paying, isnt great at all. As I expect to get all the content in class and even more rather than doing extra research outside of lesson. Last year, for a modelling assignment we had only one lecture on UV unwrapping. Majority of us has never done it before so we did extra research outside of class, and its a very difficult process. The quality of teaching last year especially for modelling was not the best at all. You had only one helper and he/she was always helping others, and didnt have time to help everyone. This was a common occurance, I feel like the lecturers should teach something then give us a little refresh of what we just learnt and do a tutorial in class so it sticks into our heads. Apart from those issues, the course is great, the quality of assignments is great and gets you ready for the industry. I have learnt a lot, stuff I have never learnt before as well!

Chesil house in my opinion was much better than my previous accomodation Purbeck House last year. The walls are thick, you cannot hear people laughing, screaming or any other uni student activities. You can however hear running in the corridors or if someone is for some reason running in their room which can awake you. Unlike Purbeck House which has super thin walls and you can hear EVERYTHING, this is sooo much better. The kitchen is big, depending on what block you're in, apart from issues with the Oven, its been good. The shower is big, and im a tall person of 6ft 1 and I can fit fine. Its a hose as well which you can pull down and wash yourself, unlike my previous accom which didnt have this! The beds are a large single, big enough and not toooo small. And you have plugs next to your bed which I was super super happy about!!! The WiFi is AMAZING. I am a gamer and I also do lots of digital drawing and assignments, its about a giga bit or more of Internet and omg its so fast I love it. And very reliable! Maintenance however is very very questionable. They take ages, im talking not in a few days but a few weeks. When there's a kitchen inspection and it says 'empty bins we will check in 24hours', it wont be 24 hours but 2 weeks time until the next inspection. The rooms however are very humid and I recommend buying some sort of fan for ventilation. Anything above floor 4, expect to boil if your in stairway 3. My boyfriends flat was on a terrace bit and his is floor 5 and it was very cold which was nice, however depending on where your flat is depends if its gonna be very humid or not. Overall my experience has been great! Flatmates have been nice and I will be staying here again for next year. The flat is huge and big enough for 3 monitors and a large pc on the desk and the cupboard is bigger too compared to my previous accomodation. Comparing this to purbeck, Chesil is value for money. Bigger rooms, better bathroom and bed.

I don’t think the facilities for software engineering are the best, also, they could make some buildings look a little more modern. I think the student union is really good, I really like the events and activities they offer, it makes everyone fell very welcome.

As I said, the facilities could be better. Our computing labs look very old and not upgraded.

I didn’t like having to share the kitchen as it caused a lot of problems. But in general the accommodation was fairly good, nice installations and really nice treats