University of Exeter 1531 reviews

The University will organise many career fairs focusing on Psychology, but also other areas which might be of interest for a Psychology undergraduate. Throughout the three year programme, career as well as postgraduate research lectures are organised at last once every semester. The University's career website is well-organised, accesible and very helpful in proving job prospects or meetings with individual students for talks of future employment, but also advice on how to do a CV and so on. Overall, an extensive amount of help is provided to ensure students can graduate and be confident about what to do next.

All the lecturers in Psychology at Exeter have contributed or are currently contributing a great deal in very influential research, which means they are all aware or current developments and can therefore bring an up-to-date approach to students. The lecturers are all passionate about the area they teach which is extremely helpful in keeping students motivated. The balance of teaching hours and individual studying is very reasonable, although some modules could direct students more towards appropropiate research. An aspect which is specific to Psychology and could be improved is the adivce given for carrying out research for coursework.

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The Student Union is very active in all possible areas of student's univeristy life- so many activities and sociaties are proposed to stuents, it is difficult to be bored!

The University is constantly improving and renewing its facilities. Unlike many universities in the UK, the buildings are colourful with a modern, powerful touch and it is a pleasure to study and have attend to lectures. Shops, cafes and restaurants are plentiful and all departments are equipped with material suited for their needs. It makes a huge difference to study in an environment with where everything is provided.

Exeter is the perfect combination between town and bysu city- everything is within walking distance and yet it is not so small that getting bored is easy. There are always things to do, whether it is restaurants, nightclubs, cultural sightings or outdoor activities in the beautiful surrounding countryside. The University and societies also organise hundreds of activities and socials throughout the week. However, it is just as easy to stay comfortably at home where the sound of traffic is very limited and enjoy a relaxed evenning in a cosy little city.

Clubs and societies are very organised and have regular but also varied events and social outings for their members and friends. Clubs and societies at Exeter are very open to new members and make everyone feel part of the family, it is a great way to meet new people and make new friends. There are hundreds of choices to suit every hobby and taste, ranging from numerous sport societies to eating to reading etc. It is for everyone!

Support offered is more than sufficent, with the main reception desk answering any topic required or directing one to appropriated sources. Lectures and supervisors are easily accessible with office hours but also reply to their emails within hours and are always ready to provide help. Essay feedback is detailed and encourages students to improve for following assessments, and exams papers can be requested once marked to see direct feedback. The wellbeing center offers a lot of help for stress management as well as other mental issues and the health clinic offers reasonably short wait-in service and appointments. If one needs help regarding anything in the University, there is a service for it!

Offers mock interviews and CV workshops throughout the time at university, as well as hosting employability events.

I found that the majority of the lecturers were very accomplished, which meant that they definitely knew what they were talking about. However the class sizes were too big, and there was a real lack of engagement between students and both lecturers and other students. The amount of idea sharing was low, and we were not encouraged to be critical of things we were studying very much. There could have been a lot more interaction through seminars and smaller lecturers, allowing for students to ask questions to engage with the course content.

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It enabled such a wide variety of activities to be offered with some good funding opportunities for student societies.

Very good, the main thing that could be better would be more studying space.

Engaging, lots going on but with a good "small city" atmosphere.

Varied.

Some of the support offered is good, but for my course at least I found my personal tutor was not helpful at all, only meeting with him once in the 4 years of my course. I also found that the lecturers usually could not offer much support as there were too many students assigned to each of them.

I think the Grand Challenges events helped to incubate lots of new ideas for tackling social challenges around the world.

Careers team. I didn't use the service

Certain tutors seemed to use biased language about emotive topics. Which didn't seem as balanced as I'd like in an academic course. Another didn't have a good breadth of knowledge around many topics, which meant he was less helpful as a dissertation supervisor. Several people mentioned it, and one swapped away from him. Loved the topics and most tutors were excellent and very knowledgable.

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Used them once or twice, excellent.

Didn't use them often. Library was very good.

Great, small but everything's there.

Didn't use them

Poor, I wasn't advised by my tutors of any services that might have helped when I was unwell and needed support.

None that I know of

There existed a very helpful careers department who were always on hand to give helpful information on necessary experience in the career you were striving for. They went above and beyond that and sought out opportunities to obtain this experience. Personally I was sent an email from the Physics department for a summer internship opportunity with Ogden Trust, which I took, and that experience has shaped my future as I am now applying for SCITT with that school. There was also huge support for societies from the university. I was President of the Evangelical Christian Union and through this experience of liaising with the university, I feel I learnt many necessary skills such as time management, organisation and communication.

What I enjoyed most about my course was the tutorials we had every week. This was a time to, as a group of 5 or so confused students, bring our questions to a dedicated lecturer who would explain the concepts in a different way and help us to understand. When I started utilising this option, was when I started performing well. What I struggled with most was the weekly workload in the first few years. Weekly problem sets were set on subjects I could not yet understand and this left me with an ultimatum, complete the problem sets to a sub-standard or take the time to truly understand the topic. Due to time restrictions, both options were rarely achievable simultaneously.

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Students union had an excellent set of societies, publicised their events well and were very helpful at the information desk.

University facilities in the Physics department were excellent. For our dissertation work, the vast array of quality equipment allowed multiple methods to be attempted to optimise the accuracy of our results.

Exeter is a city that quickly feels like your city. It is small enough that you rarely took a trip into town without catching up with someone you know. Crucially, however, there were opportunities to get out of the student bubble from time to time, for me this was through church and Jive lessons.

Excellent variety, very enjoyable and inclusive.

As said, there is excellent academic support. Personally there are ways to obtain the support you may need in times of trouble.

RAG Jailbreak was always an eye-catching charitable event.

Gives you talks to go to, career fairs, etc.

+ Staff is excellent - 2 hour lectures are too long. 1.5 would be better.

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I like it. The Guild is run well (all of the societies are well organized), and they build great buildings/facilities for students (such as DH1).

Great. New ones are always being built, and you can find everything you need and more on campus. It is essentially its own city.

Very good. The atmosphere of Exeter is wonderful. There are so many cool places to go (especially for drinks and food), the river is very pretty, there are great walks you can do, places to go out in the evening, and a few ruins (ideal for an archaeologist).

Very good. They have everything I could think of, and all have plenty of activities and socials to attend.

The university has many systems in place to offer support. Everybody has a tutor that helps both with the academic and the personal, and there is a wellbeing center for ones emotional and mental issues. Personally I have not had the best experience with either. Staff is always great, but my tutor was changed every year while I was enrolled, not allowing me to develop a good connection. Wellbeing can offer great services (and it does to a lot of people), but I found it both difficult and stressful, even simply to be seen for the very first time.

There are at least two organizations to volunteer with, and I know they did things to help both people in the local community and abroad, but I am not sure of what they have achieved.

Career zone is very helpful

Tutorials are very helpful

10

They have many activities but need more marketing to get others awareness

Excellent

Best city ever

Iit's okay

They are helpful

Yes

These were pretty good at Exeter. Although they didn't offer anything to me.

The course material was interesting and they run a good, but disorganised residential. A number of the speakers changed at the last minute, no one had checked the sound connection for a Skype speaker. The information about what we could use for our write up was unclear. So it often felt a bit confused. Sadly some of the lecturers weren't very helpful, one would plan 1 2 1 tutorials and then cancel, which would have been fine had she been flexible and able to work around my schedule. It felt like one lecturer presented a biased view of certain emotional topics. As a result we wondered if she marked work more harshly where it disagreed with her strong ethical stances. Several others found one particular lecturer to be very difficult to get assistance from, the lecturer rarely knew where to find readings on topics we were asking about and several people had problems with them as their dissertation supervisor, one I know of was allowed to swap. Emails to some of the main lecturers often went unanswered. In particular many of us had to email several times to receive feedback on our dissertations, one girl finally posted her request on Facebook and then received her feedback (along with the post being deleted). Sometimes the handin dates on the online information would be incorrect, leading to problems. But the head of the programme was extremely helpful. She often permitted extensions, when I was struggling with work and this course. She also has an amazing wealth of knowledge, alway knew of some reading which might provide some helpful leads. Overall very lovely people and interesting topics, but if I had my time over then I. would not do this Ma. Instead I would have looked at human-animal interactions.

0.5

They were helpful, gave good advice although not always well staffed. Took them some time to reply to questions.

Excellent.

Nice small city. Lots to do.

Didn't engage with them

I was ill during my course and my lecturers never told me there was a disability team or counselling. I only found out at my graduation when talking to another student who had received support from the disability team. That was very disappointing, maybe I could have achieved a distinction instead of a merit (as I was very close).

I didnt engage with any.

Careers centre offering continues help. Links with works placements and endless opportunity's.

Like most: always someone to help and provide help. Like least: Lectures not always up to standard/ feel like they were a waste of time and could have learnt better off my own back.

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I get involved and really enjoy it. So many societies and endless stuff happening on campus. Always very supportive as well.

The majority are top quality. Especially the sports facilities.

Small but safe and there's more nightclubs than you think!

Very well organised and enthusiastic.

Personal support is incredible. My personal experience with tutors- could have made more of an effort.

Too many to choose from.

Exeter was great at providing employer-led sessions from top employers through the Career Zone, which has now got me a job on a top grad scheme.

I really liked the massive variety of topics on offer with really specialist knowledge. I disliked the anti- social nature of some of the courses. Incredibly few contact hours meant it was quite difficult to get to know people on the course.

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The Guild societies are great, a huge variety offering everything you could possibly need and facilities to accommodate virtually everything.

The university has some incredible facilities. Whilst the library provided all the resources I could wish for the lack of seats at peak times was irritating. Also, it was very apparent that the most money was spent on science departments with humanities subjects being left to hunt down space. Some of my seminars took place in incredibly cramped spaces.

Exeter is a lovely place to live, offers all amenities and good train links. It is quite small though so you need to be prepared for that, as well as not especially close to anywhere else!

Amazing, everything I wanted.

Tutors were generally very supportive in my experience. I have no experience of any personal support

Some great projects existed at the university. I volunteered with gifted and talented programmes run for primary school children. Friends took part in social mobility tutoring projects and also there was a huge RAG movement.

My course offers employability lectures every term, and also allowed me to take a module where I gained work experience with a local company, this really helped to open my eyes as to what sort of job I wanted to pursue after finishing university. The Career Advice centre is a great way to find out more information about your next steps and they offer practical workshops and interview training which really helped me for asssent centres.

The best thing about my course is the diversity in historical subjects I can chose from, enabling me to tailor my course to my interests. The choice allowed me to explore parts of history I had never heard of before, which was a great way to learn new skills as well. The worst thing was the coordination between the two departments. Being a joint honours student means that your degree falls between two departments and at times their management and coordination of the course hinders students from achieving their best. There needs to be better structure to ensure joint honours students are given as much support as single homie students.

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Exeter’s Student Union is one of the best parts of the university it offers a wide range of societies and activities for students to get involved with, and enables students to creat socirty’s that they feel are missing from student life. They also are fantastic at making students aware of all the different services the student union and the university have to offer. The SU also provide employment opportunities for students, helping them to develop a variety of transferable skills and great work experience in a great number of roles, enabling students to really get involved with the university.

The university overall has great facilities, particularly for the sciences, however some of the humanities facilities would benefit from further investment. The library is one of the best aspects of the university and has a wide selection of literature to help all students. The sports fackitties are incredible and allow you to try a whole host of new sports!

Exeter is a fantastic city, that is incredibly welcoming to students and has a great student vibe. There are some really sweet independent shops and cafes that really show you the sense of the city, while there are still a great number of high street shops and restaurants. It is only a 20 minute ride to the beach which is great to get away from it all and perfect for flatnagr bonding!

There are a wide variety of clubs and societies that allow you to try almost anything you could wish for! They also allow students to get involved on the committees, helping them to develop transferable skills and get to know all the students in the society.

The academic support enables students to floruisb and gives them access to both their personal tutors and all academics to help them develop at their own pace. The well-being services are very supportive to the students, but could be expanded further to support more students.

Exeter Student Volunteers is a fantastic student-led society that offers over 14 different volunteering projects to students, and is continuously expanding its remit. The projects are student led and some have the support of local charities, which enable students to give back to their local community. RAG also do some amazing charity work for both local and national charities. They offer once in a life time adventures with Choose A Challenge that take students across the globe.