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Great atmosphere and professors - they are very understanding and look out for your best interests. To improve, having more weekly classes to consolidate content and contact time with professors would be great.
Lots of study space
The best aspects are probably student life and the location of the university and nearby facilities. Bad aspects would be uncertainty around whether you have a lecture or not, job losses, and what will happen to me as a student.
The disability support team is awful and does not follow through or keep you updated as the student. I've had to get the music office involved with my emails and meetings otherwise they would keep ignoring me. Positively - the music office has been brilliant at supporting me. It's a shame all of the staff are leaving and the department is being threatened with shutting, as they saved my degree when I transferred over to this university.
Heath campus is a great opportunity to learn while surrounded by a working hospital. Student accommodation is perfectly situated between heath campus and main campus for student union and the city. Seperates work and 'play' nicely.
As a student at Cardiff University, I love the supportive learning environment, top-quality teaching, and great facilities. The campus is modern, and the lecturers are really helpful. The city is affordable, vibrant, and full of things to do, making student life exciting and fun. Plus, there’s a strong sense of community, and I’ve met amazing people from all over the world.
Campus is very green and pleasant, the SU and taf are great budget options for student. Libraries are peaceful and quiet work environments, wide variety of study spaces. Lectures and lecturers are engaging and interesting with plenty of opportunity for questions and input.
Study area not enough, always full of ppl. Either than that everything perfect.
Pharmacy building (and others) require new facilities and modernising. It lacks decent study spaces with electric outlets, several lecture theatre seats are broken, and the building is overall in bad shape. I appreciate its an old building, but it's facilities do not motivate studying nor attendance- a lot of students can't wait to leave. As this is the case, I prefer to study in the CSL, as there are nicer study spaces, with plenty of outlets, and cleaner facilities.
Overall I have enjoyed being at Cardiff because of the city and the people I have met. The university, however, has often times failed me. Cardiff as a city is gorgeous and has so much going on, I would choose to live here again and again. I have a lot of respect for the Cardiff Physics department, and am grateful for all of the lecturers who have made these last few years engaging and enjoyable. However, on a whole the university lacks organisation, there have been many times where my grades have suffered due to a lack of preparation or certain oversights. For example, our second year fields and flows module grades had to be adjusted as the lecturer made it too difficult for the majority of the year group. It has since been said that this years cohort had a much easier exam due to last years disaster. Whilst I am glad they have improved the module, it is upsetting that our grades were impacted in a year that counts towards our degree classification. Another example of this is the third year atomic and nuclear exam. This exam was abysmal. Due to a lack of proper checking before printing the final exam, the disrupted formatting meant that multiple questions were unreadable and this couldn’t be answered. Furthermore, the exam itself was disgustingly hard. I commend our lecturer for giving us all the resources he could, telling us to do problem sets and past papers which would help us with the exam, however almost all of the resources we were given were inapplicable to the final exam. The majority of our class came out of the exam feeling betrayed and upset for not being given the proper guidance. In terms of organisation, the university has personally failed me in my global opportunities internships. Last summer I was given the chance to apply for an internship in China, and I was a successful applicant in this. At the time of this incident, I had already had zoom meetings with the professor, was in the process of booking my flights, applied for my visa, and had taken time off work to attend the 6 week internship. It was at this point I was notified that I did not qualify for funding as I had already received funding for a previous internship. This was never communicated to me that I could only receive funding once. It was a complete joke that this wasn’t told to me before. Luckily, when raising this issue with the uni, they were able to give me funding and I was able to go. I am glad that they rectified their mistake however it was a mistake that should never have been made, I should have been made aware that I couldn’t receive funding again at the beginning of the application process, not when I was confirmed to go. Overall, I believe Cardiff University is in a lovely city and it has is good points but at the same time it lacks proper organisation. Regardless, I am still glad that I have attended here and will always cherish these years.
The area is nice and friendly and the sports communities are very welcoming. In terms of academia...the organisation is severely lacking and communication between staff members appears to be non-existent. My year group in physics has been very messed around - we were impacted by strikes in first year, a module so hard that the entire cohort had to have their grades artificially raised in second year, and so many typos in a third year exam that there is talk of discounting the module. The attitudes of the lecturers is very hit-or-miss; it is clear that some of them only lecture in order to continue their personal work, as there is no standard in terms of teaching method and level of background knowledge we're expected to have. This ties in to the lack of communication I mentioned before. Over all, Cardiff is OK, but as a place to study physics it could be a lot better. If I were to go back in time, I would not apply here and that is a real shame.
The location and looks is amazing especially when it’s sunny. Always events on and a way to meet new people and have a good night out. To make it better a bit more communication and jazzing up older areas would be great.
Best- Student sports clubs.
The university provides best facilities be it infrastructure, academic help, education facilities. It is perfect for me.
There is such a great sense of community and lots of support available!
The best - I have supportive teachers. - My course is the very unique, no other university has BA Modern Chinese. - most accommodation is close to lecture halls, you can simply walk to get to lectures. The worst - The university is planning on removing my course mid semester. - They don’t communicate to their partner universities for year abroad. - They only told us about their plans for the future after it got leaked to the press. - They are not transparent with their plans, most people only know via word of mouth. - Our teachers are left with no job security, they have the choice to stay and “graduate with us”.
The campus, location and social life is great but there is limited support from the uni. The mental health team is underfunded and the personal tutors have very little time ability.
It's pretty good. No other frame of reference.
4.5
The lecturers are great and offer lots of support. They make sure to give you as many opportunities and the trips are great and an amazing way to learn and apply the knowledge.
Lots of contact hours, which is good.