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Hi there, I'm Luna.
I'm a bit like an AI, except instead of making pictures of people with 16 fingers, I can help you find the perfect course and uni.
Would you like some help in your search?
One of the best aspect of the uni is its a smaller uni right in the centre of Dundee .
The university is in the centre of Dundee making it a prime location for everyone to access. The facilities certainly for computing courses are top of the range and contain everything needed for your course and more. There is a good variety of unions and the SU seems extremely relaxed.
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Lots of true passion people in the game development field. Creating games is truly a unique Uni experience.
I have asked lecturers and students to stop stalking me and they won't.
I really wish I didn't decide to study at Abertay. While the pandemic has certainly resulted in a steep decline in the quality of the courses, I already started to notice issues with the place before it took hold. There is little point in choosing to study game design when you get barely any instruciton from teachers and end up learning pretty much everything useful by yourself, which you can do without Abertay. Student support is terrible, and if you can manage to see someone, they usually tell you that they don't know how to help you. I was looking at studying abroad in my second year - I was met by apathy when talking to the pertinent department, and when I proposed trying to reach out to institutions in a specific country, I was told that I would have to do it all myself because they weren't able to help me facilitate it at all. Any complaints about lecturer conduct fell on deaf ears. The campus itself is servicable. There's a couple nice modern parts that are stuck on to the side of a very brutalist block. During the course of my degree, they've unfortunately done away with most of the on-campus cafés as well as a large, open, sillicon-valley-style working space for game design students. The library is small, but a good place to meet and study. I hear most students trying to do actual research went up to Dundee's library though. Abertay doesn't pay for any of the top academic paper websites, so getting access to studies and resources for my dissertation was something that, like most things at Abertay, I was left to tackle alone. Apart from the aforementioned changes to the facilities, they were okay. I always did most of my work outside of the university and rarely used the available hardware. About halfway though my course they changed the way that software was handled, and since then found it very difficult to get apps to load properly. Abertay's student union is nonexistent. There's a small students association which handles some university affairs, but getting actual help from them is based on if they like your politics or not. Most people go up to the union at Dundee university. Student life is okay in Dundee if you like drinking and nightclubs. Aside from that there's not very much to do in the city itself apart from the V&A. I found myself going back down to Edinburgh most weekends for this reason.
I love that it’s small as initially I didn’t want to go. The staff are good when in your course however the lack of a union or bigger side leaves students feeling excluded. Unless your in a sport or a club you never really meet anyone apart from people in your course. Other than that it’s a great uni. At the end of the day it’s the degree to the uni
