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5.04.04.63494 Student reviews
Sort:Latest reviewsI love how close everything is to the centre. It's a great university with lots of opportunities. I have had food support from counselling services. Sometimes the WiFi is lacking and it's hard to get connected on the Heath campus though.
18-24 years
First gen student
There definitely need to be more than just drinking socials for societies , because others who don’t like or can’t drink alcahol miss out especially if they don’t like clubbing. If societies try to balance it out with their socials, I do believe more people would feel comfortable in joining them. Everything else it’s very useful, location is amazing, the help you can get makes me feel very safe and secure. Knowing there’s security around. The university is very clean, welcoming and if I have any concerns it is normally sorted straight away. Been here for two years and I am very happy to be studying at Cardiff university.
4.5
I love the location because it’s all relatively compacted together, whilst not being far from accommodations or the city centre. It’s also very convenient that there is a train station running through the campus. I also love the student union, there’s lots of choice for study areas and places to get food or other essentials. I love the Taf, but sometimes I wish I could bring some of my friends that go to other unis with us as well. It’s hard to find somewhere where we can all go together to get cheaper food and drinks that isn’t just a Wetherspoons.
I have mixed opinions about the layout of how the course is taught; although I like that there’s separate lectures, tutorials and seminars (so we can not only just get told all the information, but also get a chance to discuss it and fully digest it), but I don’t like the spacing of them, how I may only have one 50 minute per day that’s at 9am so I have to drag myself out of bed at like 7am just to go to the CSL for that one lecture. Or worse when I have a 5 hour gap between 2 lectures on some days, so I just have to sit around on campus waiting for the second lecture because it’s not quite enough time to go anywhere else for another activity. If more of them were on the same day, and we just had free days, it would make a lot more sense. Like how some people on my course get Fridays off because their tutorials are some other day of the week when they’re already on campus. Also hoping I don’t get all early morning ones next year.
Location is good, not too far from campus, near to bus stops that can take you into the city centre or to the train station, and its nearby a retail park that has a Tesco superstore and other convenient shops. Room allocation was good, for me. I got my first choice in a quiet living flat, which is very helpful because I’m autistic. I also am lucky enough to get on with all my flatmates, but I know others in Taly North haven’t been so lucky. Some people I’ve spoken to have been placed with people that they really don’t mesh with and haven’t been able to get alternate housing. Thus far, I haven’t really had any issues with safety. But I know there were some incidents with people breaking into Taly North, people getting mugged in the directly surrounding areas, and the gates entering into Taly don’t actually lock except for the one Tesco side. In terms of value for money, I’m not sure it’s worth it. It’s a small room with a tiny little bathroom and much less storage than required for someone that’s essentially moving their whole life over here with them. I haven’t even moved that far away from home, so haven’t brought that much stuff, but still struggle for space. I know people that have come from faraway places like Thailand, Malaysia, and African countries too, who have had to bring their whole lives here with them and do not have enough space to accommodate for this. The price is extortionate for what the uni is actually providing. I was expecting that finding housing for next year was going to be far more expensive than what the uni would be charging me, but next year I’m saving over £200 per month for more space, more storage, a full size bed, a washer and dryer I only have to share with 5 other people that most likely won’t break after a single use. Because there is always a queue for use of either of the facilities in the laundry room, and it doesn’t help that nearly half of the washers are almost permanently broken, and we’re supposed to be responsible for calling them to tell them every time it’s broken when the uni should have more regular maintenance checks on them if they’re known to break this easily. Additionally, I would also like to see a bigger Amazon locker, similar to Taly South, a bigger, improved laundry room, and eventually to reach a deal with Transport for Wales so that a train station at Taly for future students to enjoy.