In this friendly and close-knit university, the tutors are incredibly knowledgeable and always ready to help out. Students feel supported and encouraged to succeed in this environment. However, the university could benefit from an improvement in overall organisation to enhance the student experience.

• Facilities 4.0
• Location 5.0
• Student support 5.0
• Campus look and feel 4.0
• Student life 4.0
• Students' union 4.0

It's a tough but rewarding course with lots of opportunities to ask tutors for help.

• Course content 4.0
• Work placements and internships 5.0
• Lecturers and teaching quality 4.0
• Career prospects 5.0
• Tutor contact time 5.0
• Subject facilities 4.0

BCOM is an incredible place to study osteopathy. The course reflects well education and integration of the the origins of osteopathy as well as keeping up to date within healthcare developments. Everyone knows everyone on campus and makes for the perfect place to learn and socialise together. Everybody is a friendly face and are always willing to help one another out. I have no regrets choosing BCOM to study osteopathy.

• Facilities 5.0
• Location 5.0
• Student support 5.0
• Campus look and feel 5.0
• Student life 5.0
• Students' union 5.0

It is a very close knit university with all students and staff being very friendly and welcoming. The location is great and sets you up to become a great osteopath

• Facilities 4.0
• Location 5.0
• Student support 5.0
• Campus look and feel 4.0
• Student life 3.0
• Students' union 5.0

All aspects of Uni is good. As this uni is quite small, everyone gets along with each other and helps everyone out. The family feel helps especially because this course is demanding and can be stressful

• Facilities 5.0
• Location 5.0
• Student support 5.0
• Campus look and feel 5.0
• Student life 5.0
• Students' union 5.0

Supportive lecturers, subject is fun and intuitive. Despite the odd choice of putting an Osteopathic clinic on a hill, the university facilities are pretty nice. I would only improve the harsh institutional lighting and the layout of the treatment rooms as I don't think it's suitable in a therapeutic setting. The value of gentle light for making a therapeutic setting and putting practitioner and patient at ease is underutilised but being a naturopathic college I would expect more.

• Facilities 5.0
• Location 3.0
• Student support 5.0
• Campus look and feel 4.0
• Student life 5.0
• Students' union 5.0

There are a lot of staff that do their best to make life good for students, unfortunately there are some problems when it comes to admin and communication with students however, with dates and deadlines not always being clearly communicated. Overall all the students are lovely however, and there is a lovely sense of camaraderie in the college. Due to it being so small it is very easy to know all the students and everyone is happy to help each other.

• Facilities 3.0
• Location 2.0
• Student support 4.0
• Campus look and feel 2.0
• Student life 4.0
• Students' union 2.0

BCOM is one of the oldest and only specialised osteopathic medicine colleges in the UK. Being a student at BCOM gives you a unique opportunity to be surrounded by peers and lecturers who have the same passion. The size of the college also makes the rapport with the lecturers and tutors more direct and amicable, I am always been able to ask for help and receive feedback. I highly recommend BCOM to all prospective osteopathy students.

• Facilities 5.0
• Location 5.0
• Student support 5.0
• Campus look and feel 5.0
• Student life 5.0
• Students' union 5.0

BCOM is a rather small university which allows all year groups to interact. It also creates this feeling of being part of a big family of people with similar interests! Another benefit BCOM has to bigger universities is that there are a lot more interactions with tutors during lectures and in clinic where you get more one on one time :)

• Facilities 4.0
• Location 5.0
• Student support 5.0
• Campus look and feel 3.0
• Student life 3.0
• Students' union 5.0

There is no perfect university, and there are always problems and points to improve on, but I was born to become an osteopath and as long as you know your reasons that are true to yourself, you can achieve anything. I want to point out that I am quite blunt (if you didnt already notice that from my answers), but if you want to become an osteopath in Europe, you should go to BCOM to study. The clinical competence and the atmosphere of students and tutors is very good, and those are the main two important factors in this decision, right? I was initially brought to osteopathy by an osteopath, who participated in the thesis project of my previous degree, so I hadn´t heard of the whole field before that. He had qualified from the oldest osteopathic university in the UK, and he told me to go to BCOM. Imagine that! He knew. I applied and I got in, and Im still here, after three years. the Q13, the contact hours vary according to the year, on mine there are more essays so less contact hours, but it can be between 30 and 45 per week. And the true hours are of course more, because the responsibility of your own learning is yours!

• Facilities 1.0
• Student support 4.0
• Students' union N/A

Great friendships, plenty of practical opportunities, supportive staff, invaluable experience and opportunity to develop skills that few places can offer. No place like it

• Facilities 3.0
• Student support 4.0
• Students' union 4.0