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2171 Student reviews
Totally, It’s a fantastic university. There have great study environments and fantastic student support. I could receive many information by email every week to give me more information about activities. Therefore I could make my student life easier and have more experiences. The stuffs and teachers who working here are kindly to us. The points need to be improve is about the strike. The strike have happened in this year is takes our lots of time .
18-24 years
I can attend my lectures with friends and then grab something to eat, then can go game and live our life. It is honestly an experience this university, Love it! It is fun to visit bars once and a while with friends. Staying in and cooking together or taking the train to London. Its all well put together, otherwise I was never going to pick that university. The worst aspect in my opinion is the person’s own fault ‘most’ of the time not in terms of living space or a mistake that you have made which is can be changed I presume but the way you set up your living lifestyle. If you decide to be anti social and live a closed up life you will not get the full experience. Go outside, meet people, attend lectures and go study together, have drinks and eat at restaurants. You set up the way your experience flows in university, and this university has made it easy for us to enjoy ourself with other people with all the activities it has to offer outside on campus which is vital, especially the gym, cause gym did help me a lot with life. And yeah! Enjoy yourselves, nothing to worry about and live life to the fullest, breaks are a month long so you can always go skiing or anywhere on vacation or get a job its perfectly set up as I said i think 3 times already.
I like the way the campus looks like very presentable a lot of buildings to explore very up to date, they also have so nice food outside of student union however the down side to this is getting to campus I kind of live far from campus so it’s quite an hassle to get to campus.
Its got a nice library
The best experiences are the sports teams here that are warming and fun as well as the workload here that isn’t too much. the worse aspects would be the location.
Best - Area Teaching facility Worst- parking
Great range of bars, restaurants, cafes! I love the food markets that are there constantly; as well as the markets that is there on Thursday. The library is especially great, it’s a great place to focus and engage in studies. It’s 24/7 which is also great for people who work during days or people who live on campus.
18-24 years
First gen student
It is a great place to study, however some of the facilities are quite old and need some renovations.
Good teaching and lectures
18-24 years
First gen student

Worst is the locatin may be boring sometimes, good is care and facilities in the campus
Diversity-lots of students from different backgrounds A good and safe campus good support services A better gym/ sports facilities
Good uni, there's a lot of support for students with learning disabilities
The best university student life experience you can have. In very aspect University of Essex meets your expectations. The 2 facilities I most admired was that for muslim students halal food is provided on campus from several places and there is a prayer room which is very respectfully equipped. I am honoured to be a student at Essex.
I had a late start at the university because of the tuition fee debt and this has affected my learning and progress and now I’ve had to catch up this is the not so good parts of things also the accommodation which I live in has a lot of flaws and has a lot of problems which we have to deal with each week , the heating goes off from time to time and that makes it's very cold inside the accommodation it comes on all the times though I need stays on for air a bit of time this can be improved on for the good side of things I had support from the university in away as they let me retake they have let me retake some of the tests assessments and exams which I have missed due to my late start which is really considerate and a good thing the university campus is very bubbly for anybody who is a bubbly person or who likes lots of activities
really nice. school offered many activities for international students
18-24 years
We’re studying at the Southend campus where we lack student life engagement and facilities. There is no bar for students to drink together, there are no sports facilities, there is no cafeteria. Just some of the many missing facilities that students here are missing out on.
Campus is lovely and there is stuff to do Worst is that sometimes security isnt that great
Being treated like kids, making posters every class really doesn't instill the learning I think one of my tutors thinks.


There's enough resources for research and essays.The lectures are easy to understand.
Both online and in-class were interesting.
Sometimes the hall is very cold.