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4.04.14.01113 Student reviews
Sort:Latest reviewsYork is a beautiful area which was why i picked it for University due to the rich history. As 1st year student who has just moved i feel like the campus has a great community feel that makes it a lovely place to study. But even though the area is amazing, I’ve been struggling with student life. Adjusting to living away from home, keeping up with work, and finding my social footing has been tougher than I expected. I’m enjoying being here, but I’m still trying to feel fully settled.
I love studying here, lots of support and encouragement from staff. Many resources to use.
Love the campus. Love the location. Great wealth of student support services. I come from a complicated background and the clear empathy, passion and overall compassionate nature of my course staff alongside the stimulating, interesting, engaging and inspiring course contents have left me genuinely not wanting to leave. I'm considering returning in future years to teach on the course myself. First I must go and work to develop my own expertise in order to grow sufficient value to offer if I were to join such an esteemed team of competent, intelligent and professional people. They have all in their own way made me feel cared for and inspired as well as providing substantial practical advice and support in my chosen field. There may be more individuals, such as Rian from the Disability Advice team, but I may not remember all the names of those who have contributed to my positive experience of learning, support and guidance. I have learnt both personal and professional values from these that I will cwrry with me for life. Thank you.
The students deals are also quite expensive. But it has a lot of resources I guess for studying help and I like that the library is 24/7.
Great location and lots of support available.
I love how much the staff love the campus
+sense of community, I've made so many friends around university. +Plenty of things to do around societies and the student union +support around disabilities and adjustments -it doesn't feel as if there is enough going on within the university in terms of music opportunities and advertising. End of year concerts, lunchtime concerts etc -the food is way too pricey at the canteen and doesnt consider how there are students who dont have as much to spend -theres always network outages, or moodle going under maintenance -recent funding cuts to the library, student union, etc.
The best part is there are lots of free events organised. For example, today I am going to help decorate the uni chapel. They also do a free soup afternoon every Tuesday. The worst part is that the rent is extortionate. For example, some flats have damp and are constantly cold but the rent is upwards of £150 a week.
Best aspect is the smaller campus thats easy to get around and the diverse lessons. It also has loads of support to get students through their studies. Worst aspect is the lifts breaking down and student accommodation system.
The university is full of open-minded people and strivining to improve every year. Something to improve is probably setting a much stronger studying program - make a clear lecture plan that would gradually improve student’s understanding of music and give them the idea what they could do after graduation. Basically, how to make money out of it.
Everything is easily accessible
Worst aspects are just the fact its so small sadly. Which has pros and cons.
I love the location of the uni and some of the events the university hosts, however, I would like to see more in terms of setting up a proper postgraduate research community as it currently feels like PGRs are keep within their own departments
Biomedical science isn’t well represented within the university lifestyle, it would be good to get more careers help specific to us as in comparison to other courses we lack the same comprehensive support
It’s mainly a uni for local students, so there’s not much range in people I’ve met. The uni is beautiful and in a really good location!
The fantastic location and community feel
Lecturers are good
Tutors and classes
4.4
The best part of this university is how environmentally focused it is, everywhere you look there are birdhouses, little garden, posters educating people and more. This is why I ultimately chose this uni as it fitted my course really well. They also seem to actually listen to the students which I thought was great. My least favourite part of the uni so far has been how busy it can get during events, such as freshers fair, it was a bit unbearable and I was in a lecture during the quite hours. however the society's and sports that they had were great so that improved the experience. I think next time multiple fairs could be held to reduce the footfall in each, and allow students to see everything and not accidently miss something because it was so packed.
The best part of my course is the variety it can provide me, it can be specified in further years into what im more interested in. Some lecturers do a great job of listening to the students and trying to understand how they came to those conclusions and it shows that the students appreciate that as there is a higher engagement in their seminars and lectures. however for some topics that may come across as less interesting there is lower engagement which makes it harder to focus, therefore, if for those topics were presented in a more interactive and interesting way. I quite like the hours I have at the moment in uni as it gives me plenty of time to do the reading and work on assignments. as well the lecturers have a great response time whenever I have emailed them in the past.
The location is great as it isn't in town but isn't too far away, as well the location to uni is great. the room allocation has been great I've made friends with all my flatmates which is even better, the only thing I would say is other flats have more common areas, in terms of sofas when ours doesn't so that would make it better and more value for my money. the internet hasn't failed me since joining and the management is fixed fairly quickly if there is any problems. in terms of safety, I would mention the bus stop right next to the accommodation as there's often rather unsavoury characters that have commented multiple times on my body which makes me uncomfortable. as well there was recently a case of a man trying to get into the buildings and lure people out however, I didn't see him so I can't really comment.