406 reviews for University for the Creative Arts

If you study animation or games, be prepared - the courses didnt have a dedicated 3D teacher for 2 years of my studies, and has recently dropped the course lead of animation. It's sad that a place with such a long legacy has set so many people up to struggle through their degree. Those who suceed must be self motivated and prepared to learn alone. Individually, the tutors are fantastic and you will learn a lot by speaking to them outside of classes.

image and styling is new so I understand its still being worked out hut really does not get the time it deserves. The classroom and my tutor where not even for my subject and we simply don't get the same support as other courses.

good halls, clean and good location but can lack in safety at times

Don’t have work placements and internships. After the course it’s hard to see future

Although I do love my course, fashion image and styling at UCA get half the attention of the other courses. We have very few days at university and a general lack of caring about time management or what we are actually learning from our time here. The lectures can be helpful and good, but they just don't happen enough, and the support after lectures is never enough. I find the other courses have always got speakers coming in or planned days out and are always being informed of job opportunities and more when our class has never received that. Our class, on top of that, is not even being taught by an image and styling lecture because they could not find one. I felt I had little support, and the quality of my work and passion for the subject has decreased over the years. This is a shared opinion of many people in my class, and although I do think you can do well in this course if you really love it and strive to do well, you will probably not receive the support that you deserve.

good halls, cleaners one a week and an up to date building.

The Moodle concept is a very great idea, and a different experience from my home country, it allows a platform for learning and feedback from my tutors. I also fancy the sensory teachings which stimulate my sensory organs in the perception of my immediate environment

The course itself is well-organised with a defined timetable schedule for the first year. This is a total opposite of the general arrangement at the uni, as firstly the APEL application took so long and it caused my visa application to be delayed, not saying other general enquiries throughout the studies.

It’s so convenient and just 4-5mins away from the fashion design studio! I absolutely love the location.

I was disappointed with this course. The first year was difficult because of Covid, so we had a lot of online sessions, but the level of actual tuition throughout the course remained poor. For example, we had 2 life drawing sessions in three years! The digital tuition was almost non-existent, I was expecting at least a session a week - digital skills are important now. I learned more from Youtube. There was a lack of materials and resources. The facilities are excellent, e.g. ceramics room, print room, but they do not actually form part of the course! You have to book your own sessions. Demos like screen printing were not done by someone who knows how to screen print!

The inherent inequality between the international foundations students and home foundations students at this university is unacceptable. Although both labelled as "integrated" foundations, the home students received lectures, projects, and workshops that were tailored to degree specific topics with their own designated classrooms, studios, and workspaces. All of the international students were dumped in a single classroom with hardly any resources or workspace. They had to struggle week to week to find rooms available for lectures and fight to arrange tutorials and inductions for studios. Students who were non-degree seeking were lumped together with students who had been promised a specialized foundations course for their specialism as well as students who had already completed a bachelors degree and were prepping to enter a master's program. The students were given minimal instruction in four specific specialisms with shallow content and completely ignored all others. As an international graphic design student, not once was I taught anything even remotely close to the basics of typography, layout, publication, printing, elements of design, branding, visual communications, 3D modelling, motion graphics, photography, client relations, etc. Anything I learned or accomplished this year in relation to my specialism was sought out and arranged completely on my own, while similar things were readily available to home students and part of their standard lessons. Our only meaningful lectures were part of our contextual studies class and these lecture were often given in a classroom intended for the home graphic design foundations students. All year I got to see the kind of work I should have had the opportunity to do or create instead of wasting my time in this useless international course. For students who pay over double what the home students are required to pay, we should receive at least equal education opportunities, if not double! On top of all these issues, we were mislead to believe that the school would listen to our thoughts regarding this course. We were asked to appoint course representatives who would go to course meetings and provide feedback from the students in order to improve the course and tailor it to the students who were paying thousands of pounds to be there. When the students shared their opinions of how poorly the course was going and their frustrations about being promised specialized education, the program director got defensive and angry instead of listening and being open minded. They argued with the students and gaslight them, telling them that the course was fantastic and well organized. They also never properly reported any of the students complaints or issues with the course to the school board. I don't recommend this program at all. If you are an international student, stay away.

The rooms are tiny, mouldy, and run down. Everything in the flat is constantly falling apart and the accomms office is always trying to charge the students for it. No issues are documented properly and they don't inform the students when people are coming into the flats. There is no storage anywhere in the flat or in the rooms. They put locks on the lifts and you have to register with the accomms office to be allowed to use them and you are required to prove a disability for it.

Lectures are incredible Work experience not so much

My course is handled extremely well, my lecturers utilise both face to face and virtual teaching in order to ensure maximum effectiveness of learning.