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Sort:Latest reviewsWorst - I am a commuting student who uses the train to get to campus. Many events hosted by the Students Union take place in the evening or on weekends, which make it difficult for me to attend and still be able to make it to classes the next day. This means I can't fully participate in student life. Best - 24 hour libraries as I get to campus fairly early and know I have somewhere quiet to work. The opportunities provided on the Archaeology course are good, e.g. trips and a mix between lectures and workshops. The university also helped me get a disabled students allowance that paid for study skills mentoring, which I appreciate.
Bettter sports facilities
Wish there were more study spaces.
Faculty are amazing, but uni makes weird financial decisions
Libraries are incredible. Campus is easy to navigate. Student union is top tier. The outdoor spaces could use updating.
18-24 years
First gen student
Cardiff is a good place to study, although it also feels like an incredibly dangerous place.
Lovely people and everything is in walking distance But lots of buildings and facilities are a bit run down and need renovating
The SU is so amazing but entry price and the Que isn’t the best. The lecture halls and study places are also really good aswell.
As an exchange student I tend to compare a lot my current university and the one back at home. The thing that i was most amazed by were the facilities in Cardiff university, it has really good an big labs with plenty of equipment for every student, which really caused a great impression for me. In the other hand, what I would improve is maybe for exchabge students that come, I would have a indroductory talk onky with then explaning then how the faculty, teaching techniques, classes, etc work here.
Cardiff University is a great place to study because its facilities are 5* and they are constantly looking for ways to make upgrades and improvements. It could be improved by providing larger breakout spaces within the buildings for students to spend their time between lectures.
Lots of societies and things to do within the student union Maybe cleaning the updating some of the buildings or making it more bright by adding some greenery around campus
We have persona tutors if we have a question or don’t understand a topic we can always go to her. We also have a lot of material to help us study. What can be improved I say is that students events should be more cheaper
Worst aspect is how much my course expects me to do and we don’t get a reading week considering we have way more reading and work than others courses that do
Cardiff is a great city for students, with so much community activity As well as lovely green spaces. Although the social sciences aren't as well taken care of as STEM sectors, all of my courses so far have been great. Cardiff has given me the opportunity to go abroad, which is so amazing
Love the study areas, and lots of things to do for day and night activities. The SU is great - especially YOLO, and something that stands out to me is the anti-spiking efforts they use like cup lids and bottle stoppers, great efforts compared to other unis. But more support should be provided with mental health, I emailed the uni in response to low attendance saying I was struggling but I got an automated reply back. Not much support in that area.
Excellent local and a great student union with lots of event, societies and support. Timetabling is a bit all over the place though
I love the community at cardiff, and i love the study spaces, however some of the societies are a bit problematic.
Great social life and kind staff.
4.5
One of the best aspects of Cardiff University for me would have to be the Center for Student Life building and its facilities with it having the newest and largest lecture theatre on campus as well as providing dedicated prayer rooms. One thing that can be extremely improved on is the timetables, for instance on a multi lecture day instead of having lectures directly after one another or at least an hour apart almost all of them are 2-3 hours apart which is completely inconvenient as it sometimes prevents me from going home and coming back due to weather conditions which results in me wasting 2-3 valuable hours of my day waiting instead of having already completed my lectures and gone home.
A great aspect would have to be having most of my lectures in the same lecture theatre and having most of the lecture slides available a day prior to the lecture so I can make notes at home and be able to focus on understanding rather than speed typing during the lecture. A not so great aspect would have to have to be the in-person exams as studying and preparing for them has been very poorly explained and not properly instructed to us which left me not knowing how to prepare or studying correctly and efficiently as I didn’t know how to properly spread my focus and time amongst the topics due to the vastness of them.