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Sort:Latest reviewsI love the location of the university in the canter of London and next to the Bank of England. As well as the lecturers, they have amazing methods to teach you all the tricks and basics that you need to know for this sector. It is the perfect university to study to become a banker. I do not have improvement feedback as I am very happy with how it is.
That’s it’s very specific to what I want to do and gives me specific and detailed support
18-24 years
I feel this is an excellent institution and deserves recognition. The facilities are impeccable and I have received nothing but endless support since day 1. I feel very comfortable talking / contacting my lecturers as well as student support. They cover everything from tutors, work load and mental health. All of which I find very important, I want to touch on the support for mental well-being. They are extremely helpful and supportive offering daily / weekly meetings with whomever you feel comfortable, to talk about uni and the stress and how it’s impacting your mental health. This makes a huge difference for the students and creates a healthy and comforting environment.
LIBF focuses on modern research in finance and from day one encourages students to think about their future. The careers team is amazing and students are always able to seek help for applications, and attend networking events The university has a professional environment and a focus on studies. This somewhat comes at a cost of the social aspect. Many of the societies are set up around finance and although this is perfect for the course, it restricts the amount of socialising amongst peers in a relaxed environment. However, this has been through times of Covid restrictions, and since there have been huge improvements in this area thanks to a new support team. Due to the smaller size of the university it is easy and encouraged to speak out, share opinions and suggest changes to be made. The uni is supportive of any societies or extra curricular activities you may want to start and are happy to provide resources to help you develop them. It can be a matter of taking responsibility for any events/societies you would like to be involved with, and creating them yourself. Overall, I have really enjoyed my time thus far and felt like I have been given a great depth of knowledge to be fully prepared for a career in finance.
Try to invest more in the basement as it’s the only social place uni students really use. (Year 1)
The disadvantage is that there is no separate study space for a single person, and there is no video recording for each lecture and seminar.
The university is very supportive and welcoming. It was very easy to get involved, meet new people and learn new things. They invest a great deal in ensuring that students are provided with support thus making it the perfect place for students like me.
The best part of the university is that you’re being taught by individuals that have been through and done the things they’re teaching about. Another positive being the location, getting a feel for what it’s like being a young professional in the city. It could be improved and is being improved by the support given to student going through tough personal situation. In my first 2 years it was terrible if Im honest but it’s now starting to get better.
Good and experienced professors. Good degree overall. Uni facilities are small but enough for the amount of students
Best aspect, it is close by where I live, amazing facilities and student support team as an amazing engagement with students which allows every student to perform better in a team and individually. No negatives apart from the early hours where the campus closes.
I love the fact that it’s a small university and the teachers are very hands on with you and you get a lot of attention compared to a big university.
In my opinion, the biggest set back of this uni is the lack of a student life. Being as it’s a uni which offers only a few courses, this is understandable; there are less students here than there are at larger unis. This can often make you a bit reluctant to attend uni on some days - you might often get a bit bored. however, students and the careers team are consistently working hard to improve this and have even put together student events at pubs and organised outdoor events for their students. On the other hand, a benefit of this being a smaller uni is that, if you’re a person who genuinely focus on your degree, this is a good place to come as there are much less distractions. Other than student life, the lecturers, careers team etc. are all very helpful and polite, seeming to genuinely have the students’ needs as a priority; as mentioned above, they are very open to suggestions of improving the uni and make effort to do so. There are never any problems between uni students, everyone from all years seems to get along and help each other. Additionally, there are many networking events and learning opportunities arranged for uni students. This is especially valuable because this uni puts in lots of effort to prepare its students for the working world thereafter. Personally, I enjoy this university and have met some very good friends who I believe will be lifelong, so it’s a good uni to meet people who are likeminded and share the same beliefs/ideologies as you.
My time at LIBF has been enjoyable thanks to the wonderful people that I have met. My course has provided me with an opportunity to learn so much about the world of banking and finance, and a chance to secure a graduate role within a top accountancy firm. The amount of help I have received from the Student Support team and the Careers Team has been invaluable. I believe that it can be further improved by keeping the opening hours of the university a bit longer for the entire week, especially because some students prefer staying longer to study on campus. Additionally, it would be helpful to have lectures and seminars recorded, which could help students go back on topics that they missed out on or review some concepts with more clarity as it becomes difficult to keep up with both listening and note-taking while the lecturer is explaining.
Becuase of the small size aside from the staff themselves there are not many physical facilities offered by the university itself mainly being a student common area and places to use computers and study. It does have a bloomberg terminal to book so you can get experience using it for your CV It's location is great being right in the center of finance in london so it's really common to meet someone in the industry you are studying at while nearby and it's well connected to transportation so travelling there is not an issue
Location, career team, industry lecturers and the specialised nature makes it a brilliant place to study. Student life is decent but not a 5/5. Has a very corporate feel. Depends how you learn, if you like big lecture halls this isn't for you. But if you like smaller classes with more one on one time this is 100% for you.
Opportunity to study in Europes Finance Capital, personalised student support.
Good online learning environment. Could improve basement with more space and faculties.
The location is great and the content within the teaching is great and directional. However the exam system via proctor is a mess. It creates an additional level of stress and is not effective. It creates more problems that it solves. Furthermore is not in use with other universities. However although this is a major problem the support staff are very helpful in helping through this process.
Proctor free is not very good
4.0
Student Support: This service was not very adequate for the first 2 years of my course, with the entire support staff team leaving at the end of Year 2 but when they were there, the service was still not helpful. When bringing up an enquiry, we would always receive an automated response, followed by a delayed response which would not address the enquiry with a specific solution. Sometimes we wouldn't even get a response. The new student support staff have been very helpful and that could be improved with potentially the person managing them to receive more resources. The new study space they provided at the beginning of this academic year proved to be quite resourceful. One way they could improve it is by getting better computers for the area as the current ones are quite slow.
Teaching: Despite the lecturers being experienced, they aren't exactly proficient at teaching seminars or outlining clear expectations of assignments which would be determinant of our grades. Their lectures would range from being mildly interesting to just reading off the slides with little additional input. The core texts they would provide sometimes wouldn't have relevance to the exam, with one module's core text providing more confusion towards writing an assignment it was structured around. Lecturer Feedback: The feedback our lecturers would provide on our assignments would be vague and non-constructive as they wouldn't recommend improvements for the next assignment. Providing feedback to the lecturers themselves would result in temporary improvement in teaching which would be forgotten after a few weeks. Oddly the option to provide feedback has not been given to us in our final year.