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I am an international student here and as I expected swansea is nothing like that. I had always heard that UK is a very calm place with beautiful scenery around. Swansea is definitely scenic but the place is crazy. On weekends the place is a racket. It is so much fun even to just watch people dance around. The parties here are freakishly crazy and amazing. I dont remember having so much fun for such a long time. The number of good clubs are limited here but vine street is a good place. Any person irrespective of his likes and dislikes can have fun here. The thing i like about the students union is that every country has its own club. So you can meet other people from your country and probably never feel homesick. The facilities offered by the universities are perfect and I have never felt the need to stress myself around for anything till date. Totally a student paradise.

The city of swansea is a very dead place. I live in uplands and maximum houses here are occupied by students. The houses are amazing( on campus accommodation sucks), but it seems like a very dull place. All the party and fun is till freshers week and is crazy then, but as the term progresses, everything calms down. The major problem of living in uplands is that the local residents complain if there is a party in your house and if the music is loud. The university is just like any other university around UK. The lectures and modules are similar to those in any other universities. If only swansea had a more clubs or a better night life, the place would have been a wonder.

The reason I came to swansea is because I had an average score in my A levels. I never expected swansea university to be the way it is. I thought everything around here is lousy and the staff is not into academics much. But I was a food, the university is such an amazing place. People are active and happy around. The environment around is a perfect place for any student. The academic staff take extra care to ensure that the course work is perfect for students. The most fantastic thing about student life is the student accommodation. Surely the room size are small but it doesn't count against the fun everyone has around. Totally the place I have always imagined and I am very happy being here.

The thing which attracted me to swansea university is the coast line. Swansea has a beautiful coast line with wonderful beaches. There is so much to see around here and the best part is the university arranges many tours to various beaches. Gower is the best beach I have ever seen till now. The clubs and societies of the student union have a wind surfing club which is a must join for everyone. Alternate weekends we guys go to different cities or beaches for wind surfing and surely this is the best thing I have ever done in my life. Apart from the wind surfing there are so many other clubs and societies which one can join. The JCs bar is the hangout spot on campus and is a pretty chilled place. GO SWANSEA!!

Swansea is a freak place for every party person. Living here in the student village or campus is a huge party. The modules are pretty easy at the beginning and nothing is rushed through. A fair amount of time is taken for every subject of study given or taught. The modules are divided into core modules which are important and need to pass with good marks while the rest just passing is important. This is a very helpful strategy as I can concentrate more on the modules related to my course. The sports facilities provided near the campus by the sports village are amazing but the membership is expensive for student budget. Swansea is a special university in many such ways.

I would highly recommend Leeds, as it's an amazing city to discover! The university has a great student atmosphere and campus is always buzzing. The student union has a lot to offer in terms of extra curricular activities and sports, opening you up to a lot of new opportunities.

As a white British second year finance and accounting student with no particular religious beliefs, I have grown increasingly more frustrated and depressed with the university life at Brunel. The societies are few and generally aimed at specific cultures/religious beliefs/nationalities or people doing a specific course, and those that aren't are often difficult to become a member of, or are not an active society despite being advertised as one. The lecturers are predominantly (from my experience on my course) rather boring or difficult to understand with no sense of humour, with the odd exception and have been found to be rather unhelpful at times. The town is not very nice and there's only one average club (although there are many pubs and a metropolitan line train service from town straight into central London if you are willing to undertake the grand journey there and plan your journey home again) The students union bar is a nice place to go for a drink with some friends and there are a few places to have something to eat at the union, but the university club (if you have ever been clubbing before and have experience of other clubs) is distinctly average at best and completely empty most nights except for friday nights and weekends. (I once invited some friends to the university on a weekday and walked into the union at about 10 pm to find the club and entire union absolutely deserted. rather embarassing.) My experience of accomodation was poor as i was, after being accepted through clearing, automatically put in the poorer quality accomodation. there was no common room and no kind of social activity for the halls such as a halls christmas dinner, or halls rugby team as i understand there are at many other univerisities.

I have been very impressed by my university experience at leeds so far. The lectures are interesting, the union is very helpful and the city itself is vibrant and exciting. My accommodation is also very comfortable and ideally situated right on campus.

First off, Edinburgh is a fantastic place to live and study in. This University will open many doors for you in the future, particularly if you're studying science/medicine etc (I'm studying BSc Biological Sciences (Hons)). If you're also aspiring to do biology here, the course in the first semester isn't especially great but only because its very general as they're trying to show you all aspects of biology in order for you to accurately pick your honours with regards to your interests. The lecturer's/practical leaders are in general very good however it is a totally different way of learning from school so be prepared. There were a couple of particularly bad lecturer's but they change a lot so you're not going to have a bad one for long. The lecturer's who covered the difficult parts of the course were all fantastic. The accommodation however is DISGUSTING and is the only thing I'm not enjoying so far about being here. I stay in self-catered South Clerk Street and it really is horrible (mice, flies, constantly have no hot water, smell of dampness, bad kitchen appliances, bad furnishings in rooms, the list goes on...). However this is the most cheap accommodation and I have been in the nicer self-catered flats which seem very nice to live in and people who live there enjoy it so my advice is to steer clear of the University cheap self-catered flats. One huge good point though is that you meet so many really lovely people staying in halls, so I would recommend it, just not South Clerk Street! Pollock I have never been to however I've heard the food isn't all that great so it's a waste of money to go catered. Overall, I would recommend Edinburgh as it is the highest ranked Uni in Scotland(just now) and you will go places with a degree from here.

I dont really know what the student uni does.. my course is great i love having the opportunity to do the things we do and my lecturers are more like friends.