8 reviews for Richmond American University London

One of our campuses have shut down because of Covid, but the one that stayed open is still pretty great. Tends to always be clean, has a bunch of equipment. But some of the on-campus accommodations can be a bit of a mess.

Overall it's pretty good. It seems they thought of everything, it's great on paper but I guess on practice it doesn't always work that well. Some professors can be very harsh on students with mental health issues, but whenever you seek help from the actual counsellors and therapists, they always try their best to help. There is always someone to go to for help. If I'm not mistaken they have been working on making some of the areas of the university more accessible for people with disabilities (some already were, but they were adding things).

Recently we've had mostly online lectures, but most of the professors have been very understanding of student's scheduling issues due to it being an international uni (meaning a lot of students have been taking the online classes from home in different countries/different time zones), and recording every lesson, making powerpoints with audios in it, and trying to be available for as many office hours as possible. The beginning of our "pandemic studies" was a but of a mess, as everyone was trying to adapt to the different ways of learning now, but as time went on, my university has really adapted well and provided quite a lot of help to the students who were struggling.

In my case it's a bit tricky as I'm not from the UK (as most of the students at the University), so there is only so much they can do to help with jobs after uni. They provide a lot of help with internships and career support during your time there, but not much can be done for after.

No

Very small library

Nice location (London), and nice staff. Unfortunately not a well organised place with a poor registry service which employees unprofessional and inexperienced people . Bad online teaching, with no set techniques to follow; every teacher make its own way, or at least they try. Overall, this place is not at levels of other universities.

They have mandatory internships in all programs, but they don’t provide any. Perhaps, you need to organise your own internship and pay the university to give you academic credits to be granted your degree

Overall quite well, the IT equipment could be a little more modern. University is currently using blackboard and its own portal for grades and organisational measures. There is a mobile app in the works.

University has Student Affairs available to deal with enquiries. All organisational queries are easy and quick to solve.

Richmond is a vibrant, elegant and safe part of London. Richmond Hill campus is located a short walk from the gorgeous Richmond Park. Kensington Campus has a much more metropolitan feel. Transportation to both campuses is reasonably good.

In-class teaching, with blended teaching during the pandemic. Courses incorporate Blackboard, teaching materials provided for all courses. Academic support is good thanks to personal tutors and a low number of students

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Richmond alumni are employed in companies such as EY, Bloomberg, Deloitte, PwC, Citi Bank, HSBC. Alumni continue their studies at universities such as London Business School, King's College, City University. We have great guest speakers such as the LBMA Chairman and ex-executive of Bank of England Paul Fisher. Careers office is great and very helpful with work-related matters.

Pretty good

Very nice

Yes in the center of London

Lobe the classes pattern and hate the schedule

10

They help with it

Pretty outdated and gross. The boys bathrooms are sort of nice though because they have gotten redone. The laundry room only has 5 washers and dryers, of which only 2 actually work.

Haven't explored these options, but probably bad.

Richmond is about 45min - 1hr from central London. The town of Richmond is quite nice.

One of my professors is absolutely horrible. He won't even allocate time to meet with his students! Also he just doesn't teach and doesn't know what he is teaching. He also doesn't reply to his emails. The rest of my professors are fine

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n/a

broken

its non existent, they charge 1000 for arranging an internship with average companies and the woman in charge of internship has a superiority complex.

london is great

NOTHING GOOD, student union is bad, especially the woman in charge is an absolute joke.

no effort

They are absolutely horrible. Mold all over the buildings, bathrooms are disgusting and hardly properly cleaned, classrooms are baren. Our library has none of the books for my major and if they do it's on a three hour rental. I am dyslexic so this is a major problem for me. The bedrooms vary greatly in size for all the same value. They also all come with different furniture so one room could be stocked and another empty. The shower I used to use had a cracked base, and apparently water leaked into the theatre and messed up some stuff. It's been four months and it still hasn't been fixed. Mattresses are often horribly worn out when you move in. There are huge dips that go straight to the wire bed frame. I put in a maintenence request a month ago and it still hasn't been filled. This is common,

Fair enough. There are some brilliant advisors and tutors about, but there are also some who are not so brilliant. For instance I had an Acedenic advisor who has been extremely rude twoards me because I couldn't fit it in my schedule to come see him during his office hour. He has sent multiple email of a condescending manner telling me things like "get your skates on and come see me" when I couldn't because of classes

We have a student government but all they do is organize events at clubs sometimes and create events centered around alcohol. They don't actually represent us. (Also they're £5000 in debt to the university so I don't think I'd want them to represent us). Basically we don't have one.

The city of London is amazing! Richmond is such a lovely little burrow and very peaceful most of the time

Very elitist. There's a huge issue with budget cutting and uneven budgeting. I am one of the founders of the new student drama society and they continued to cut our budget and raise the budget of another club because when the drama club was under different management it didn't go smoothly. It's not super easy to become a part of a club. You have to go to this open day at the start of term because there's not much information about them after that.

When they are canceled. All of the general education classes are really useless and don't have any merit whatsoever. At least in the upper classes the professors are qualified and interesting. But I actually was forced to take a course about transitioning into life at uni and all we did for five months was learn how to use power point, a program which everyone who's in uni has been using since we were 8 years old.

Eh alright. They have a nice little system on the website that helps.

In a single word: Revoulting. My room last year grew mold and made me horribly sick for months on end sending me to hospital and making me suffer. When I spoke to someone about it they painted over the mold and called it quits making me even sicker. This year, new building new room, mold again began to grow and ruined a ton of my things. I have moved rooms yet again hoping it doesn't happen a third time. On top of that the room sizes vary in ridiculous measure. My flat mates room used to be a triple and was 4 times the size of mine and we payed the same price. This is something that is throughout all of our university buildings and they are all worth the same prices which is frankly unfair and a complete rip off. The facilities are disgusting and unclean for the majority of the time, spew is on the bathroom walls and half the bathrooms smell like a sewer.

The food is horrible, they often run out after the first 20 minutes of service, and then you are left waiting for whatever straps they can cook up quickly. All the kitchen staff are friendly, but the food is just of a very bad standard. There are 3 places to eat during the day: the main canteen, the cafe & Starbucks. Starbucks is easily the best & Sylvia who works there is one of the nicest people at the college.

Non existent.

Some lecturers can't even speak english fluently, yet alone teach their course to a good standard.

Completely over-priced. Due to the old building all room sizes vary (which is understandable) however all singles/doubles/triples are priced the same, even though some are twice the size of others. All bathrooms are shared and they are in a horrible condition, many toilets do not flush, the showers are tiny and have no water pressure, and they are either boiling hot or freezing cold.