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1150 Student reviews
Staffordshire university is amazing! Everyone is really helpful.
Studying at Staffordshire University is amazing especially if your looking to move away from home the Stoke campus is great as it’s close to many shops and a town centre where as I believe the location of the Stafford campus is a little to out the way as some students struggle with transport especially if the coach there doesn’t run at a time that they need. The catalyst is great for all courses to co-study together in the same environment and can help some courses or student to come together and to socialise. The student union do communicate and socialise with the student in a great way and keep everyone informed in all activities. It’s a university that is always evolving with the times around them and I find this help every generation to study as one whole and to feel involved within this inclusive environment.
On joining the university, I absolutely loved the facilities they had for media students. However, my course stopped recruiting after our one-year. This led to a lack of support from the course faculty, and nowhere to turn within the University. Overall, I'm happy with the friends I've made but the university is poor.
The facilities are great. However student support is non existent and the union no longer seem able to give the consistency of working with the same advisor.
18-24 years
The university is great. I love my coursework and professors. But it's located in stoke on trent... which is not great. While the campus itself is pretty nice and kept clean, the area around it is very dirty and all the roads and sidewalks have potholes.
More facilities would be nicer but the smaller close feel makes it much more homely
The support from the inclusion team and lectures is brilliant.
The best experience I've had here was engaging with lectures about the work that I'm doing a d being able to understand what they want me to do. Worst aspect is not being able to engage with fellow students as well due to there being a lack of group work or work including peer review.
As a mature student, it can be quite daunting but the Uni support has been amazing. Lecturers are a great mix of specialisms so the input is very well rounded.
The flexibility to make the course what you want, depending on your goals and specialisms and having very supportive staff to do so.
Worst aspects would be the placement period as i feel very distanced from my friends but that also makes me look forward to seeing them again and catching up as i like to socialise
18-24 years
Lots of different facilities and equipment that can be used for good used for different courses and moduels
The food is amazing and the courses are really good
18-24 years
First gen student
Having the studebt union shops and venue so close to the halls is super convenient and they're cheap enough too. I've struggled with finances so getting materials for the course is a bit of a struggled. I'm worried about how I will pay for the materials
18-24 years
Student life is great, moving between student accommodation until I found a flatmates i like has been so helpful. The shops and venues run by the student union are so well managed and prices are good. I appreciate how well advertised deals at shops are + events at the music venue. The classes are fun and varied with some 1:1 support occasionally. Something not great is that my flat flooded, I started living somewhere else, and then that flat flooded too and was infested with ants. The second flat was infested with ladybirds lots of maintenance issues in the student accommodation. Gym onsite is super helpful, it would be cool to have food options at the student onion locations that support a healthy/lifters lifestyle with high protein
good place to study just sometimes hard to get to with trains
- The campus shops and cafes are actually amazing to have on breaks nice places to be. - The campus location is not the nicest location I mean a big giveaway is the fact its in Stoke-on-Trent and Shelton which is a rough area the park near by is lovely how ever it is a very risky place to walk especially alone - student support is good however trying to get a meeting prior to a assignment hand in is practically impossible unless u book from the start of the year. support from staff is mixed some are amazing others can be impossible get hold of. When looking at what other universities do for this course it feels like we are not getting full attention or effort as staff work on multiple course we don't receive the quality sessions as much as other university's however we do have some good sessions. When it comes to referencing we are expected to know how to do it, you can book a meeting with student support however as I said before this is impossible.
18-24 years
First gen student
Everything and everywhere is easily accessible for everyone. Some of the facilities could do with being refurbished.
I think beacon really needs to be fixed or overhauled, it has gotten better than what it was like at the beginning of the University year but it still doesn't work at all when signing into classes with a lot of students, I'm assuming its a server sided issue more so than the app.


I love the place and feel like the lecturers are always there to help me, but to improve our love, my assignments and projects to be marked faster, so see the improvements.
I would like a bigger variety of places where our products are based, but the project themselves are quite interesting and