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Sort:Latest reviewsThe teachers are great. But the administration is absolutely awful. They make it clear that the students are not their priority. They prioritise renters and events over us at every turn. They underfund and underman their IT team, so we are constantly fighting tech issues. Room Bookings (not Estates, they're doing the best they can) is atrocious and never communicates with security. The international student support is atrocious, absolutely awful. The Mental health services are laughably bad. Don't even get me started on timetables and scheduling... The teachers are overworked, so we often have to wait for lectures and whatnot. Also the complete lack of support for Student Societies and associations. We HAD a student society building; they turned into an ethical hacking lab that never gets used, unless they are RENTING it out. Basically, everything administration-wise sucks. Maybe if they prioritised education and the student body over money from events and renters it would improve.
I prefer online with having fibromyalgia.
18-24 years
No student union Library facilities aren't 24hours
All assessments are usually so close together makes it stressfull to focus on them all at once
The best aspect of studying at Abertay is the welcoming community! It would be nice to have a student union
We literally don't have a student union or any sports facilities apart from a small gym
The best thing is supportive and friendly staff, the worst is the lack of organization in certain aspects, and chaotic management of some modules.
Best: The tutors are amazing. Materials are great especially for the research classes. Worst: No union
I like it
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One of the best aspect of the uni is its a smaller uni right in the centre of Dundee .
The university is in the centre of Dundee making it a prime location for everyone to access. The facilities certainly for computing courses are top of the range and contain everything needed for your course and more. There is a good variety of unions and the SU seems extremely relaxed.
Lots of true passion people in the game development field. Creating games is truly a unique Uni experience.
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I really wish I didn't decide to study at Abertay. While the pandemic has certainly resulted in a steep decline in the quality of the courses, I already started to notice issues with the place before it took hold. There is little point in choosing to study game design when you get barely any instruciton from teachers and end up learning pretty much everything useful by yourself, which you can do without Abertay. Student support is terrible, and if you can manage to see someone, they usually tell you that they don't know how to help you. I was looking at studying abroad in my second year - I was met by apathy when talking to the pertinent department, and when I proposed trying to reach out to institutions in a specific country, I was told that I would have to do it all myself because they weren't able to help me facilitate it at all. Any complaints about lecturer conduct fell on deaf ears. The campus itself is servicable. There's a couple nice modern parts that are stuck on to the side of a very brutalist block. During the course of my degree, they've unfortunately done away with most of the on-campus cafés as well as a large, open, sillicon-valley-style working space for game design students. The library is small, but a good place to meet and study. I hear most students trying to do actual research went up to Dundee's library though. Abertay doesn't pay for any of the top academic paper websites, so getting access to studies and resources for my dissertation was something that, like most things at Abertay, I was left to tackle alone. Apart from the aforementioned changes to the facilities, they were okay. I always did most of my work outside of the university and rarely used the available hardware. About halfway though my course they changed the way that software was handled, and since then found it very difficult to get apps to load properly. Abertay's student union is nonexistent. There's a small students association which handles some university affairs, but getting actual help from them is based on if they like your politics or not. Most people go up to the union at Dundee university. Student life is okay in Dundee if you like drinking and nightclubs. Aside from that there's not very much to do in the city itself apart from the V&A. I found myself going back down to Edinburgh most weekends for this reason.
University has completely let some students down when it comes to Covid. Students who don't have access to hardware at home, and cannot travel to uni due to covid restrictions are basically told 'Tough luck' by the uni and not given the opportunity to take extensions on work that they literally cannot complete. The course itself could just as easily be learned via youtube tutorials without spending tuition money and you could spend more time learning employable subjects. Having lecturers to ask questions is nice, but not entirely necessary. University life itself has been enjoyable pre-covid, but is it really worth spending 1000s in tuition fees and accommodation? That's up to you.
a huge disappointment again, if you are doing best when teaching yourself/reading instructional books/taking online courses next to it and just need an easy art degree; go for it. if you actually need guidance and help, better apply elsewhere, you won't be supported here
4.2
Sez has been amazing always there for any questions. The lecturer's are very supportive also.
Not many classes online which is better for my learning. Lecturer's great and course good just a lot as full on