Design studies, University of the Arts London

Good course and let us creative a lot of things and keep thinking about ideas from our daily life

Where do I even begin. At the start of my course, we had two teachers that were well trained, had experience and was helpful. They have both been moved and prioritised for year two and three and we get different younger teachers that don’t know everything about the course. Secondly, they explain literally nothing to you. There is this better lives project that we had to pick options for in our email, but no one knew what we were picking for. when asking the teacher, even they didn’t know and made it completely terrifying as it takes up two months of our course. Basically it’s someone’s social nightmare, you get moved into a completely new course with new people. I had one scheduled lesson a week where we did nothing other th have the teachers focus on the top students. if you want any more lessons you have to sign up for everything yourself by catching random emails by luck. i signed up for this course, i want more things to be part of the ciriculum and to be on my timetable.

Amazing university of artistic students.

Honestly.. I'm really disappointed with this course :(. Im in my first year and I feel like this whole thing has been a massive waste of time and money. A lot of my course mates seem to love it, don't get me wrong, but I definitely think it works a lot better if you ALREADY have a great understanding of everything before you arrive. I was under the impression that we'd get taught all the technical skills and fine-tuning here, but unfortunately not. I feel completely out of my depth with very very little help from anyone. I emailed the course tutor a bunch of times and rarely got any response at all. The subject matter is quite hard to comprehend unless you already have a load of experience in the field. The projects also havent been half as inspiring as the ones Ive heard of at other unis. Also it kind of feels like a constant competition. Chelsea itself is truly lovely and everything else about it is wonderful, but I feel like the first year of this course has been truly terrible.

First year tutor unprofessional, had clear favourites and didn't bother with the rest of us even slightly. Very little (/no) extra support given to those who need it. Unfriendly class structure. Uninteresting/uninspiring projects all year.

The first year is mainly a filler for international students to get used to the course. Did all the same things as what I did at my last year at college

It's all b*******