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4.04.14.11107 Student reviews
Sort:Latest reviews18-24 years
First gen student
It’s a beautiful university, and people are generally friendly. The staff are always willing to support and if they can’t they will navigate you to resources that can help you. The library is 24hr so you can go there any time of day, I find that to be helpful. The university has many food amenities in campus but especially around campus. It’s a genuinely good university to attend.
I can mostly only speak for the medicine course. The teaching is generally poor, with most of the lecturers and small group facilitators being clearly very intelligent and knowledgable, but having very poor teaching skills. The medical school building is falling apart, too busy, with medical students given no space. The feedback on assignments is almost non-existant. The student Guild (union) at Birmingham is a joke, they seem to actively want to make it more difficult for societies to put on fun events.
The teaching in the course has been good and well organised.
I love the course and the teaching however the building are quite old and the Guild is very poorly run.
The course is good. Students are sometimes treated unfairly.
Great resources and support provided if you’re studying a course in the med school. However, admin, communication, and at times organisation, from the school is poor and lacking.
The best is definitely the campus; it is visually gorgeous and enables us students to live a fun campus lifestyle. We can easily get to class to extra curricular activities, easily meet up with friends, and grab food from the different eateries. Student support at uob is also fab - the welfare representatives and majority of employees at uob have a real sense of care and interest. I also like being on a small course as we can form a personal relation with the lecturers and have a greater sense of support. The guild is fun and puts on fun activities but what I like the best is the activities for festivals, vintage clothes sale, more wholesome activities. I think they do this brilliantly - could possibly do more of it. I am not a huge fan of Selly Oak but that is not an improvement the uni can make. Although I think the uni would benefit from putting a tesco on campus and also creating more quiet rooms if they can. also getting more pianos on campus as there are only 2 which are always booked out!
Best: education/sports facilities Worst: Guild prices
It's a wonderful campus and I love my course. However, I'd like the opportunity to interact more with my lectures and the course content.
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The Guild of Students have proved to be insufficient in organising certain events and don't take student welfare into consideration (case in point, the Dick and Dom night where somebody was hospitalised for a broken rib). Apart from that, the societies are good, especially badfilm and docsoc
The campus itself is great as it has load of sports facilities and places to study either alone or in groups, especially the fact the library is always open. The guild (SU) are pretty good and usually have something on to help students or promote student groups. The support is somewhat lacking especially when it comes to mental health as they genuinely don’t care and exist solely to exist. I know people who’ve had deaths in their family around exams and got no support and it wasn’t taken into account for their final grade.
The uni facilities and campus is a great place to study - the library is very useful, the barber art gallery is great for a hugely of art student and there’s lots of study spaces. The teaching is very good and the lecturers are clearly invested in their research making it more engaging. The support from tutors and well being services is also very good but I would suggest they make students more aware of the help they can get. The location is good as it’s easy to get to the city but the area for student living in second year is less nice - it is also expensive to buy any food or drinks on campus.
Great community! So many events to help you feel involved and get to know staff and students. Lots of academic and well-being support! Such an idea location right by the city but a vibrant campus uni with lots of local facilities.
18-24 years
This university has a great physics department with many great lecturers. I am greatly enjoying both my studies and the student life at this uni.
After only a few months here, I feel so well-established already, and have made so many wonderful memories! My priority was to live at home and commute, and the University Train Station is so handy - even if there are strikes on any day, the bus lines are really regular, and it is so easy to get to from New Street Station/the city centre! I love being so close to the bustling second city - the University has the perfect balance of being so local to town, but being far enough that the campus is quiet and green. The Guild does fantastic work and I have used many of its opportunities, joining Folk Society, learning Ballroom Dancing, volunteering, and watching concerts and performances. The University offers so many study spaces - I love pondering where I will go for the day when I am on the train! It is lovely being around the redbrick architecture, and the campus has a real sense of prestige. I have already got a job as a Student Ambassador, and am seizing the opportunity to complete the Professional Skills Module next year - I find that the University revolves just as much as long-term considerations (finding jobs, careers, and having the experience of being an employee, not just a student) as it does the studying aspects. There are wonderful networking and information events, such as Module Fairs, Careers Fairs, and I cannot praise the Languages for All Optional/Additional Module - I really wanted to keep my French up from A-level, and feel so lucky that the University of Birmingham offers free, advanced courses - I have made more friends from this class than I have on my actual course, because it offers such a small, intimate group experience! I have made PhD and Masters friends as well, showing how immersed the students here are in making the most out of their University experience! My Personal Tutor is always so friendly, and gives me the opportunity to discuss Philosophy in a current affairs, real world context, and I have met some really lovely members of staff. Workload is very manageable, and there always seems to be something happening on campus! The My UoB App is very useful in guiding me around campus, showing me new study spaces, and articles/blogs produced by fellow students. The Careers Network are also fantastic - I have found out about a Heritage Careers Fair thanks to them (which there are not many of!), and get a new email listing job opportunities practically every day! The only thing I have noticed is sometimes when PhD students are used as seminar leads, they lack training and thus their explanations are compromised, since they are unsure how to get the group to understand a concept.
Great location, close to the city centre, but also campus so you get the best of both worlds. Student support is fantastic. So much groundbreaking research and we have the opportunity to work with people and things you don't get in any other university.
The Guild of students is a fantastic student Union with so much variety and opportunities to get involved. Food on campus tends to be quite expensive. Great study spaces. Supportive staff.
4.3
Best- how nice the unis are, nice to work in Improved- Timetables should consider commuters.
Lectures can be overpacked