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4.04.22.82171 Student reviews
Sort:Latest reviewsFood is not that good
It is very inclusive and lively.
early and sparse lecture schedules for me as a commuter made it an arduous journey. best part is my friendgroup.
All good
Would like more study place. I like the courses and the lecturers seem to really care
Theresa lot of opportunities to join societies, and there are plenty of opportunities in terms of work experience, but the systems can be hard to understand at first
Good despite covid
What I like: The environment, nice buildings, good equipments. Student life is also great. What I would like to be improved: More personal work spaces we be cool. The Library, the Silberad and small study rooms all over campus are often full. And also, there are always people reaching out to us when we are on campus to talk about their ideas and what they believe in but I think they really do it the wrong way ans it is really often. They don’t leave you the choice to talk to them or not. I think having a stand on campus and let people coming to them would be better than them forcing us to talk with them and trying to be persuasive and sometimes rude. I truly think it sends the wrong message.
Lecture quality is bad and staff do not care
25-34 years
The studying itself and everything related to it are great, but the living in campus experience is awful sometimes. I live in Pastures and there are too many parties going on after midnight, loud music and smell of weed everywhere. Security is either too lazy or to scared to address these problems.
It has been a great experience her at UoE. I will recommend this institution to my friends and family both here in the UK and abroad.
best is how close it is to london (where i’m from), and also to places relevant to my degree - coasts, reserves, reservoirs etc. but the worst part is colchester is so incredibly boring it’s depressing
None
Best feature is the lake. Worst feature is that theres not much student life in Colchester
lectures support is useless
More well-being support
I really like the university because it has a modern feel to it, which is what I was looking for. However, some of the lecture halls do not provide tables to write notes on, which is a bit uncomfortable. The Listen Again system is very good though, and most teachers provide notes to study from already, which are great to revise from.
It’s quite good
The library is the best place to study I’ve ever been in. The location isn’t the best as Colchester is pretty boring and depressing
4.3
Decent
Better than expected
Security needs to be purged and replaced with better