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Best aspects - Great city: low cost of living, especially for a fairly big city, amazing night life, not too busy but not boring, clean (mostly), friendly people, good public transportation, facilities are great, many different things to do, explore and experience - The uni offers great support and enrichment activities such as learning a language for free at any level. Offers essay-writing help, mental health help, financial advice. - Great global opportunities too Could be improved: - AI policy not as progressive as unis like Birmingham - The uni is going broke
18-24 years
First gen student
The best aspects of Cardiff University Kazakhstan are the great chance to speak with foreign tutors, improving listening, reading, writing and speaking skills, and communication with other students. The worst aspects are perhaps the awkward structure of exams and the timetable that I have friday which 1st lesson starts in the morning and then 2nd lesson starts in the afternoon however other days normally starts at 9:00 am and ends at 1:00 pm.
18-24 years
Health library is open 24hrs a day Lectures are helpful and easily accessible Wellbeing support is easy to access The student union is very active and runs loads of events
For studying I like how there’s various rooms that you can go to for whatever your preference is, there’s a lot of choice!
I love the feel of the university, made some amazing friends.
lots of great facilities, in a very central location and the staff are very helpful and friendly — however some of the buildings are too far away with the time in between lectures/ seminars — also would be useful to have more charging points
Students union is brilliant with their resources, facilities, and staff. They have great events and amazing communication about the events. Couldn’t ask for a better SU!
18-24 years
Nice, clean campus with plenty of facilities (toilets, study areas, libraries, cafes, shops, pubs and so on). Museum avenue could be lit better but that’s really down to the Council and not the Uni itself.
Cardiff University is the place where everything I care about lines up – my engineering degree, my startup, and my personal growth. As an Architectural Engineering student, I’m in a course that matches how I think: combining design, structure and logic rather than treating them as separate worlds. At the same time, Cardiff as a city is the perfect testbed for Ques, the student-life platform I’m building, because it’s compact, student-focused, and full of venues and societies that are open to trying new ideas. The university environment is big enough to challenge me, but small enough that I can actually build relationships with staff, students, and local partners. For me, Cardiff isn’t just where I study – it’s where I’m learning to design systems, lead people, and build something real from the ground up.
Support is great, the earth part of the main building could do with an upgrade
Best would be the constant deals and events such as black friday and I specifically remember this one time where I walked into student union and won a cute plant (still alive in my room) I would say that the bad is probably when there was a fire alarm and we all had to go out for about 30 minutes onto the street but I do think they handled the situation well
The student union is incredible, and the student opinions are almost always heard and acted upon
So many places to go to study like the libraries, the student union, the centre for student life or even places in the city like coffee shops. However, some of the buildings are quite far away from the centre for student life.
Lots of library’s, lots of events hosted by the SU all good location everything walkable. Very cheap city. Society’s and drinking culture is a bit full on. 9ams on Thursday morning is harsh
Many quite places to study across the campus, very friendly staff as well as a great student community.
I really love my university because of how convenient and suited to the needs of students it is. The location, the area and the opportunities for support are ridiculously amazing
It’s perfect
The student union
I love it


Seminars in our course would be good. More personal hours with tutors
Not much time spent with tutors Lectures are far too busy Lecture location varies too much within the same day.
My halls are perfect, it's just way too far from campus