Birmingham City University

TERRIBLE WIFI CONNECTION, TERRIBLE PHONE SERVICE AVAILABILITY. But other than that decent facilities, decent teachers, decent learning experience.

BCU is just fabulous! It’s a new, up to date building with fantastic facilities and support (Faculty of Health: City South). The student union are brilliant, they listen and take our opinion into an account. They also give out freebies. Some rooms accumulate heat very quickly. The windows don’t always open wide, and not all the rooms have air con. It can become very uncomfortable to learn in this sort of environment. Overall, it’s a very good university.

The campus I am on is very health based which has its pros and cons. Pros are that there is good support with everyone having the same type of course. Cons are you don't meet that many other people that aren't doing a health based course.

The new city centre campus is excellent, modern upto date with high tech facilities for the students. From filming rooms to music studios all packed with top spec computers both mac and windows. Library could be a bit better in terms of books that are kept.

The course is fantastic and other students that are there really help you if necessary. The staff are very helpful as well.

One of the biggest selling points of BCU - particularly for the Arts, Design and Media courses - is its facilities. It has 4 state-of-the-art TV studios, 6 industry-standard radio studios, photography studios (including half-coves), printing rooms, etc. There's also Hires and Loans, where you can book equipment, workshops, and the studios - all for free! There's loads of societies in the SU, including the award-winning Scratch Radio, and on-site pubs, cafes, and convenience stores. The teaching is pretty good, though at times it has felt that we're not getting our money's worth in terms of teaching hours, but many of the tutors are happy to extra tutorials and respond to emails when out-of-office. The library is fantastic, the location is super handy as it's right in the center of town, and it's all very modern with Eastside Park on its doorstep.

Wide range of courses and facilities, as an art student I am able to use most industry standard equipment with full training. Lecturers are helpful and technical workshops are available to aid projects. Area is nicely located with bullring about 15 mins away.

Facilities are not the best. Library is considerably small with not a lot of spaces to sit and do work or eat lunch. It's a shame there is not a guild or student club. Although the pub is great. Range of courses is good and lecturers are great

The campus is good. Due to the high volume of students, it's sometimes hard to find somewhere to study in the day whilst lectures are occurring. There are great lecturers who are very supportive and helpful but within my three years, I've only came across two very unhelpful ones.

The campus is great, loads of new modern facilities with just about everything you need for uni, there is an onsite shop that sells everything you need for your uni day and various coffee shops dotted around campus. I am studying Law and this year is quite interesting and most of the lecturers are good. Some lecturers, however, are very boring and fail to keep me engaged for very long. The careers services are very helpful, they also provide a plethora of different services on moodle to help you find out what you would like to do with your life. Overall my experience at BCU so far has been great and there is always something to do such as Grad+ activities which look great on my CV. The only downside is those few lectures who just aren't very good.