Art Studies postgraduate degrees in South East England

I’m a mature student doing the BMus Music part-time at Goldsmiths. I’ve just come to the end of the full-time first year (which has taken me two years). Headline is I’d really recommend this course – it was definitely a good decision to apply. Over the first year I’ve done 5 year-long modules and coming to the end I reckon they have given me a really solid foundation as a musician in terms of my ability to play, write, analyse and think about music.

It’s a nice university in a nice area very convenient. There’s everything around. But can be improved by having more community because it lacks the aspects of like a community getting together having events just to talk not for like education or like stuff just like work you know like be friendly. Have fun. like how other universities of societies like this one society are limited like all universities of society for like everyone a culture and everything and just need something for the younger students to have that university life. Even though it’s a mature university. But it has so much Support and everything that you would need to study so that something is really great about it like there’s so many workshops but more fun things would be nice

It’s a great place to study as everything is in one location. There are a lot of useful services and facilities the uni offers. I think that some lecturers may not be the most supportive or helpful at times. And I also think the uni does not advertise all the amazing or useful services or equipment they do provide - I noticed that myself and a few others would find out about useful equipment, services and facilities on our own accord at the end of our last year at uni, which felt a bit of a shame we weren’t told about them sooner.

Generally, the facilities on offer are well designed and accessible. The distance of the university from London makes it fairly attractive, and the campus is among the more unique offerings across the UK. I found some sports societies to be a little on the expensive side, and having had to commute for part of my time as a student, the student life aspect hasn't always been the best or most exciting.

Tutors with real-life studio experience who know what the Industry is looking for and what techniques are relevant to make studying at Escape Studios worth it. The worst aspect is the crunch culture, which consists in having to deliver the project in a very short amount of time with all students skipping sleep and just stressing all year long about deliveries, although it mirrors the Visual Effects industry according to our tutors even when some modules overlaps while they could be distributed better.

The Buckingham community is really quaint and lovely, making it a really easy process when getting to know everyone and exploring the town. The university itself has some nice study spaces to offer, and the medicine building in particular is very well facilitated. In terms of improvement, the university could look into refurbishing some of the student accommodation buildings.

In 1 semester I had time of explorations and many curious finds. Great course, nice people both students and the staff. Help whenever I need and facilities that put other unis in the dust. The student union adds so much room for opportunities and helping me perfect my social skills. Overall I'm having great time