Student Reviews
SUGGESTED KEYWORDS
Course
Choose one or more
Read honest reviews from real students at this uni
The overall ranking is decided by students from this institution rating them in a 2026 Whatuni review. This forms the basis of the Whatuni Student Choice Awards (WUSCAs for short).
4.04.22.82171 Student reviews
Sort:Latest reviewsEverything is perfect
The campus is quite large and situated on a hill, which means a lot of walking—that’s the only downside. However, it’s a fantastic place to study, with excellent lecturers, a diverse student community, and exciting events organized for students.
When I had visited this University, it was great to look around for such an beautiful buildings and peoples around me, were pretty helping for finding the ways or to communicate with. And environment was peacefull where I can work in different location of University, such as Library or near the lake. As I'm here in University, I have not found anything worst.
Best is loads of people to meet, worst is my accommodation falling apart.
The number of facilities available , there's loads of study spaces and support available if we need it. There's also a sports centre that we can use.
Great student events everyday, lots of outside spaces.
Everyone is so welcoming and there’s always so much going on, on campus, it’s a massive community.
Sense of community, lots of engaging and friendly students which extends to campus life.
18-24 years
It truly feels like a community and everyone and the staff have your back. This makes the challenges easier to overcome because of the support.
The student union makes life at Essex so vibrant, there’s always something going on and always opportunities for anyone to join and partake on.
The best aspects are the motivated lecturers that make it really easy to follow lectures and make it feel like a relaxed enviorment, spesifically the lecturer in "Introduction to united states sociology" is great. I really like the way we are graded as well, it makes it so that I can actually improve across the year rather than do one exam that can "doom" me. It could be improved by less construction early in the morning around the accomidation, and also cheaper prices at the SU store, but I realize that is harder said than done. I am very pleased with my stay here, and I have learnt more than I ever was able to back home due to the module structures and the great professors.
I feel that I have received lots of support from my lecturers with the course content and assignments, and they have made our lessons more interactive this year which has helped with mine and the cohorts learning. The email responses are very quick to any queries we have which helps us get things sorted out quicker. The University and student union has created lots of opportunities for students to interact with each other at essex events, societies and allowing us to feedback how everything went! This is important to our student life as it helps us relax and have fun every now and then instead of focusing on work all the time. Most classrooms are spacious and have a nice layout however, my cohort sometime cojoins with other courses or years and the rooms we are allocated sometimes are too cramped so it would help a lot more if the BSc OTs and OT degree apprentices. There are lots of facilities available for students to use for organising club events or studying and the 24hr access to the library has been really helpful in case we need to study late or borrow books we can't afford online. I really enjoyed having different food and drink stalls on the squares because I can choose to each a variety of foods and drinks I haven't never tried before. As a returning student, I really enjoyed the freshers fair this year however, I feel the squares get too overcrowded and there isn't much space without bumping into each other - in the academic year 2021-22 the location of the freshers fair was more roomy and people could go up the levels and look at the club and course societies easier. I also like the wellbeing team as they supported me when I was going through a challenging time at uni and provided me information for people I could talk too. The emargency SU hardship fund and Blackbullion has helped me out in lots of times where I was having money difficulties and I think that this should continue to be available for other students who are experiencing finance difficulties as well. I think another improvement that the uni may consider if having another app for people to navigate around because the pocket essex is no longer available and some of the rooms on campus are difficult to get to and may cause students, especially first years to be late to class.
Best aspect of the university would be the professor and other advisors supports. The worst (strong word) aspect would be the limitation of stores on and near campus.
Best- community feel, opportunities, market day, supportive environment Improvements- toilets could be cleaner, more social events for commuting students that maybe aren’t so late
The parking facilities are good and I never fail to find a space. All the staff are really approachable and supportive. I find the provision of a literary fellow very useful.
Bedroom, the bathroom could have a glass room rather than wet room as it's uncomfortable.
Great student community. Old building.
Student support is good. However, in regards to the location not the best. Overall, very good university in regards to teaching material and teaching staff.
4.3
the student union always have students best interests at heart
i wish there were more lectures in a week rather than just one hour per module
it’s too far away from central campus but the rooms are a good size