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4.03.93.7556 Student reviews
Sort:Latest reviewsEverything is easy to get to However good places (cafes, shops) are not student budget friendly
Dislike how many strikes there are and the length of them, other that that love everything about the university, especially how multicultural it is and how beautiful the campus is
Not many exercise options outside of sports societies, hard to settle in in the flat. I enjoy having different friends from my modules and also the options for student union, park and mojos bar.
Great facilities including the ure museum and the library, they offer amazing support for students with disabilities.
There are always events on campus, making feel much more like a community.
I think the chemistry department and library are great and modern. Most of the staff are happy to help students if you email them or knock on their office doors. There needs to be more correlation in what we have done to the assessments at that time because sometimes we get assessed on material that we haven’t covered from the lectures. But overall okay.
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Nice campus
really nice campus with everything you need, tons of societies. also very friendly and helpful staff and teaching :)
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Student services are really good (student support, health and wellness team, counselling and general interaction with university) IT infrastructure is great. Campus always clean and secure. Facilities always working. Everything is great
Blackboard need to be updated
The facilities for my school/department are good to support my learning.
The campus speaks for itself, it’s such a beautiful, green space
Campus is open and green so it actually feels good going onto campus. Science facilities are great could be improved in some areas as well as facilities for other areas like art as the art department is lacking
The campus in reading is really beautiful and all my lectures on my course have been helpful especially my tutor and supervisor for my third year research project. I have felt that UoR puts a lot of emphasis on support for students. when i was applying to postgraduate studies, I was able to make a careers appointment the same week and was able to talk about my application and personal statement. The same with my tutor, He offered to proof read my application through multiple drafts. Although the library is really new and very comfortable, it is sometimes hard to find seats or places to study. Additionally in my course , there are a lot of people and most of the time there are lectures but not seminars so it can be challenging to make friends. My friends in different courses have different experiences so it varies by course and is not a universal problem.
18-24 years
The freedom in my course and ease at which I’ve been able to study subjects I’m really interested in is one of the biggest highlights for me, only supported further by fantastic lecturers that have done so much to support and guide us through the past few years including covid. There are so many shops, activities and facilities on campus that you always feel like there’s somewhere or something to do, eat, or study whether during or after “school” hours. Genuinely can’t think of any negatives for this uni that don’t apply to all unis.
Best: facilities Less: some of the lecturers
4.2
It makes it a great place to study as it is near London so it's easy to commute and it has a great social life to it. I don't believe that there is much improvement that needs to be done as the university feels and looks welcoming.
The course is great it has a lot of variety to it and is different to how you expect the course to run.
It definitely is a little expensive in terms of how easily the bathrooms need thinking or how much mould grows in the rooms as well as the bathrooms. I also think that in terms of space it is okay.