1,296 Harper Adams University reviews

Elements of hands on being in the RFA mainly in second year. Lots of contact during placement year as well. Main contact with lectures is during the lectures or tutorials but are always happy for you to book meetings or email them regarding the work.

Some hostility from locals due to students living in the area but most of them are nice towards students. For both second and fourth year using the same landlord who are the best.

Good. I was able to move into this hall after being allocated a different one but due to my dyslexia and wanting to be self-catered due to being on a food course I was able to move to this hall before the start of term.

Lecturers are always so helpful! I have accepted a really good placement with a large agricultural business because of the opportunities at Harper. I have been able to take numerous work experience days with different companies because of the connections my lecturers have with these companies.

- Practical course, lots of hands on tutorials - covers most aspects of farming - looks at diversification

- good bars and pubs around - decent range of shops

My course is new so has been changed and upgraded through suggestions from the students. I have experienced online, blended and in-person teaching and were all of good quality. The contact time decreases as you go throughout the year and the end of the year is often assignment heavy with little to no lectures, although this is similar in most universities. Lecturers were normally quick to respond to emails and happy to help with queries.

The cost of living in the local town is quite low compared to city living and there is quite a large choice of properties. Overall, the town feels safe, although from disagreements with locals is suspected some locals set fire to student's cars that were living in town. However, this was a one-off incident. The locals generally accept that students bring business to the town but often complain about the noise and disruption from nights out in the town. The university work with local companies to promote graduate opportunities and part-time work can be offered, but many people do not do this as university is a full time commitment

The location is great as for your first year you stay on campus so you do not have to worry about travelling to university as it is all within a 10-minute walk. The halls are generally safe as you have to have a key card to enter the building. At first, I was allocated one of my bottom choices for halls but after speaking to the university they moved me to my top choice. There is wifi all across campus, including halls. This could sometimes be a bit slow with the large amounts of students but did not cause many problems. When I attended halls, I was in en-suite self-catering and the rooms were much cheaper than they are now (they have gone up £2000 in 4 years). The halls were cleaned by cleaners and they were very friendly with the students. The self-catered halls were well equipped, although the tables and chairs could be a bit newer. However, there was no lounge area which made the halls feel quite small.

The course management is bad with many irrelevant modules in the first two years and then very content heavy in the final year.

Good location, all halls fairly central to the campus. No access to shops within walking distance apart from small corner shop with only basics and snacks.

The best part of my course now has to be the new facilities available to the veterinary nurses which have really improved practice teaching and give a better feel for a real practice environment. The course itself allows for a range of career opportunities and the lecturers ensure all these options are shown to us. Placement year was amazing, it made all of 1st and 2nd year content make sense and I just had the best experience in a lovely practice, however I would say the contact with Harper was very limited and there wasnt much support from the uni especially when going through another lockdown, I often found I relied on my clinical coach or boss for this who are superstars! Online learning was pretty bad, some of the PP were really detailed but others often lacked some information and it was easy to lose understanding or forget questions you had at the end. However, now back to a more face to face teaching style things have improved and the lectures are engaging and I have found I've definitely taken in more information. The subject areas in veterinary nursing are engaging and very versatile for the career, ensuring we all understand in depth each area of the veterinary practice, which helps in the clinical setting as well as when caring for the patient. I've found that some subject areas have often gone into more depth than what is initially needed when on placement but this also massively helped with my understanding and knowledge of areas. Contact with lecturers has been limited understandably but getting a response via email has often been delayed, especially when coming nearing to dissertation hand in and deadlines I feel this needs to be improved as often without a response, the work you are doing cannot be continued. However, this cannot be said for all the teaching team but often this year this has caused increased stress. Course hours have been balanced especially with the work load and have allowed us time to plan around the lectures we have timetabled this has become a lot easier with face to face interaction. However, when online its been hard to find time for it all and often assignments have been priorities over lectures. Moreover, full in days have been good for getting a lot of content in at once but also due to COVID means that if you are having to isolate you miss an large portion of material and in some cases its your only opportunity to see the teaching staff, which causes increased pressure. Therefore, it may help if the teaching days were split across 2 days instead of one. Overall, I have really enjoyed the course and the teaching content. 1st and 2nd year being predominantly practice and face to face lectures were better than current 4th year where sometimes I have felt a bit lost or left to my own devices by the university, which I understand cannot be helped due to current circumstances.

Best - Practical side to the course and the ability to go out and see what were being taught in practice. Worse - Just a tough course.

It is a small market town quite away from any other town. There are limited jobs and the locals do not apricate the student population being there even though we provide a lot for the local economy.

Basic but didn't need to be anything special for university halls. Was slap band in the centre of campus just across from the dining room. Met some lifelong friends.

Environmental science soil based lectures and tutorials have been badly taught. The in person lectures have freed up a lot of time in the week, I had thought it would be harder but it's not!

on farm experience lots of practical elements labs to back up theory some lecturers run real time trials with you

ideal room, great wifi kept clean by cleaners

There's a range of online, practicals and in-person teaching. The course does it's best to make it as interactive as possible and the lecturers are always available if needed.