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Really nice study spaces and there are lots of places to eat on or near campus. There are so many societies to be a part of too. Teh student union is good and has good representatives as well! The careers service constantly send emails to check in and send advice and resources for us too!
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Campus is really nice and there’s plenty ways of getting support
The university is good and has excellent facilities. I love Old Joe and being part of the community. The strikes are a shame because the university should listen to its staff.
University of Birmingham is a very good school.
Very well balanced as a university overall. Campus and facilities are great, lots to do socially. Wifi can be temperamental in study areas and lecture halls, however.
Great campus, lively social life
it's great. I am disabled and they've been really helpful. campus is beautiful and also very accessible. my lecturers are so lovely and the people are great.
not been there myself but im sure its lovely
Only in my first year and loving it so far
Nice campus with good facilities
The sports clubs and facilities are outstanding.
Great university to be at, with a really good vibe
Everything to a high standard as expected from a red brick uk university
good place to study and stay, nice facilities and staffs, which lovely to help if has any questions
The campus could benefit from a better selection of cafe options. Most cafe's on campus have identical menus, but overall I can't much complain. As a commuter student, it would be nice if there were more microwaves available as well.
Very good facilities. Very nice people.
Coming to UoB was the best decision of my life; absolutely adore everything about the University from my course to the beloved Fab n Fresh on Saturday nights.
Stunning campus, amazing community, love it.
Very happy with the university and the clubs and societies
Amazing love it wouldn't change it for the world
A large support network for students is available and help for anyone that needs it. 100's of societies to chose from but some are not accessible with ludicrous fees.
The best three years of my life spent at the University of Birmingham. I moved to Brum in 2015 from Greater Manchester (Bury). The campus is incredible and very safe - the red brick buildings are beautiful and Old Joe clock tower is an icon in Birmingham. The library is open 24 hours, and the gym and Olympic sized swimming pool facilities are incredible. My first year halls were great (I was in The Vale) and I met my best mates here. The transport connections to halls and campus are good, and the University has its own train station, about a five minute journey to Brum city centre. The Uni has been great at helping with the transition from studying to working and there is a great careers department. I've been offered a job working in Birmingham so I'm set to stay in the city and explore Birmingham some more!
Stunning campus, great facilities, insane sports centre and pitches, sick SU (Fab is lit), loads of societies and sports, amazing accommodation set in beautiful parkland, tutors and lecturers are brilliant - wouldn't want to be anywhere else
Having the best time of my life here! I love Birmingham as a city, our campus is beautiful, loving my accommodation and flat mates and the course is extremely interesting as well!!
Since i live in liberty court I haven't experienced the SU so can't really say much about it
Highly reccomend UoB. The campus is insane and clubs/societies are so good.
uni is beautiful but birmingham itself i didn't like
Luv uni life made lots of new friends found a manager who is unpleasant with no respect for staff at go mex will not be using that place and looks like a cleaner not a manager
Love uni and all the facilities and opportunities. Have made lots of good friends and couldn’t be happier with my course. Love it
Loads of developments going on for the campus. We have the best facilities and accommodation, just the sheer number of students can cause some overcrowding in areas like the library.
This uni Is a right f****** laugh
Such a dissapointing let down of a first year! I studied drama and the league tables all said it was the best course in the UK for drama, but the course was so boring, bland and just generally really terrible. 4 of my best friends dropped out of the course within the first year, and that was just my best friends, about 13 people i was friendly with dropped out of the course. I didnt relate to anyone else everyones a bit immature and weird. The night life is absolute s*** aswell. Steer clear birmingham aint a good time. You're much better off going to bristol/manchester/leeds. Thank f*** I've finally got together the courage to drop out
Wi-Fi poor in library aha, or walking building to building. Closing all these buildings down and destroying them, building up all these new buildings that are taking much longer than promised - but not telling us where our money is going, that they don't have money to pay for printing our dissertations and binding them, but do habe money for building all these things???? Makes us angry and annoyed. We want to see fill detailed costings: how many lecturers are there, what are they paid? Outside workers, supporting staff? Then courses alliances? Running costs of all the brings and maintenance? Then all the other costs? Just have it all out so that we can see it?
UoB has an incredible campus and SU in particular, including a very strong medsoc for students in the healthcare profession. There is wifi available throughout campus just requiring your uni log in. The “green heart” is being built which will make campus even more beautiful. However, this means main library is incredibly crowded particularly around revision season, so its good to make use of the study spaces tracker showing which buildings have space to revise.
Fantastic first year experience
Incredible, best uni in the UK hands down. Best graduate prospects, best nightlife, best people. Constantly growing to become even better. Amazing.
The campus is nice but they are wasting huge amounts of student money and instead of investing it back into the support such as mental health support they knocked down the old library and are making a lot of noise to create a 'green space' and instead created a new library with nowhere near enough study space, furthermore, the library is always too hot and stuffy, it is relatively loud in there and the floors shake as people walk across them. Most places you might want to eat on campus are full and overpriced. A lot of lectures and seminars, instead of being taught in the main building for the subject, in my case arts, are instead held in random rooms in random buildings across campus.
Phenomenal, the best place to go to university
Gym and facilities in general WAY too expensive. Meal plan is an absolute scam, waste of every single penny
Beautiful campus, the university has everything you need to help you through your degree. The sport science department are amazing, interesting lectures which are engaging and the staff are brilliant!
Excellent uni with a brilliant famous
Had a great first year, the students union is out of this world. Campus facilities are great including the campus train station that takes you straight into the city center. The campus restaurants and cafe's are really good quality including a noodle bar and a burrito stand.
It has a beautiful campus and so far I loved my course. The lecturer and career networks are really supportive. Had a fantastic experience so far!
Great work feedback, physics labs are good with great instructors
Fantastic university both academically and in terms of social life.
Liked the university, very welcoming and friendly. Lots to do most of the time.
internet is good mostly but then randomly doesn't work for a whole day/doesn't let you connect. annoying.
Absolutely appalling. I've never been so disappointed in my entire life. I chose to take a course in Accounting and Finance and, to my disbelief, I realised what a favela the University actually was. The worst part of the University would be the fact that I need to be on-guard at all time, as one of my mates had his dormitory robbed of all his belongings and they even recorded it and slapped Vaseline on his head. DO NOT GO HERE UNLESS YOU ARE IN A GANG, IT IS LITERALLY A YOUTH CLUB.
Love the university! Some of the wifi drops in and out but the facilities and opportunities available to students is incomparable!
Worst experience ever. Horrible course structure with unrealistic workload expectations. Facilities are overcrowded. Social aspect isn’t great. Not particularly welcoming either.
Student union bit of a joke. Far more expensive than all other Birmingham student nights. Seems more of a profit earning venture than a student union. As a second year economics student I wouldn't expect to have lectures finishing at 1900- given that the working day finishes at 1800- yet I find myself finishing lectures at 1900 on not one but two nights. Clearly the university is operating over its capacity to fund stupid ventures such as a poorly designed sports centre- which again does not have capacity for all student to become members- and a nice new garden in the middle of uni. Yet there is a distinct lack of study spaces with room for approximately 2% of student population in the library. 493k a year chancellor needs to sort himself out and start focusing on student needs.
Had the best time at Birmingham. Anything you’re interested in, there’s a society for it.
The business school is highly disorganised! They are always lost and have no idea that students find it extremely difficult to contact them in case of an urgent need
The campus is a bit confusing but there are all the facilities and societies one might need. The student union is really helpful. The careers service is accessible. the wifi is not too reliable.
The campus is like its own little city! It's got everything you need
Excellent WiFi, easy to connect to in every bit of the campus. The guild is huge and very useful, friendly and welcoming. They can sort close to any issue you have. The range of shops on campus is fantastic with even an beauty salon, which is fairly reasonable. So many societies and sports - there is definitely something for everyone. Sports are fairly expensive, but actually quite good value for money once you break it down for the number of hours you do. Societies are very cheap- most only £5-10 for the year.
great place, something for everyone, looks pretty
Good modern uni but have a terrible attitude to security. Hold on to your belongings at ALL times EVERYWHERE. Buildings, lecture rooms etc wide open to the public and CCTV useless.
Don't go here. Absolute snobby s******. All my confidence has been knocked, I hate my course and I've made no friends.
Fab is a bit pricy but I love uob
360 UOB sports centre staff are very rude & not helpful at all. The first week of opening I was unsure about the equipment & they were very disrespectful about showing me how to operate the machines & also I've emailed them,gone to the front desk,phoned up for a login number they just are simply too slow on customer service. Personally I have had a very upsetting experience at this new gym
UoB is a brilliant uni, no doubt about it.
Could provide even more variety of societies
First year student, I absolutely hate it here. I haven't felt welcomed or that I fit in here whatsoever. Workload is disgusting and flatmates are disrespectful. 25 minute walk to campus in the rain is intolerable
It's a good uni with very nice environment. It's a very international university with people coming all over the world
I have made a mistake coming to this Business School as they are so disorganised and dont know what the hell is going on, honestly. NO-ONE has a timetable, rooms are double booked and we are sent from lectures half dont have a tutor despite going to the office almost daily I have wasted 2 weeks doing nothing really and if they are teaching about business I would go bankrupt if I followed their plan. amazingly we have to learn and load work onto a special software program and it has not been explained and this Business Department is pure chaos, If thats your subject interest look elsewhere as they just cant be bothered here its so disappointing and my Dad who is paying would go mad if he knew about this shambles
Student living in Birmingham is unparalleled
The campus is beautiful, definitely the best I've been to. The facilities are great however it would be helpful to know where computers or certain study areas are as the campus is so big, it can be daunting. The student union is brilliant, I've never had a bad night out there while the restaurant in the day is also excellent. The students who run the union dedicate a lot of time to what they do and it definitely pays off.
Nice campus far from centre tho
As a whole Birmingham is great- it is a beautiful campus and the facilities are amazing. However, I do feel that they don't really care that much about you as a student, very little support offered and accommodation in my experience was awful.
Really nice campus and lots on
What this university lacks, is a good small 'c' conservative society, it lacks any kind of right-wing focus group. Indeed, it doesn't even have a libertarian one! Moreover, the vast majority of folk at UoB are very politically correct, so don't even think of causing intrigue or controversy. You will be thrown out like the chap who was an alleged BNP/National Action member.
Campus is good, very sociable, everything is very close so all easily accessible.
All very satisfactory, and beautiful campus
Students union could be cheaper and do more things such as gigs! Its soo pricey considering its supposed to be for us students! Good range of societies however the guild dont help to run them very much and the sports clubs dont often take novice's! Careers service were a waste of time when I went for advice. Campus is good with lots of facilities, study spaces and computers
WiFi is patchy on campus, however the uni is working to solve this.
Wifi could definitely be improved. Nice campus but not enough study spaces
Gorgeous campus, great food and a simply awesome Student experience. Not much more to say.
Everything is amazing, love UoB.
Good uni can't criticise much tbh
Love it. Could be better Wifi in the library though.
We have the Tallest freestanding clock tower in the world!
Amazing Campus, even on a gloomy day with plenty of computers to serve your needs.
The campus is beautiful and the student union is the best of the universities I visited, they are always looking for ways to improve, but they do really listen to the students opinions!
Amazing diverse uni and Birmingham is an incredible place to be a student, transport into the city is cheap, fast and easy and lots to do. The guild of students hosts regular events and hall RA's host regular events as well. The uni want you to have a great nightlife!
The wi-fi won't let me gamble. But everything else is great.
wifi is hit and miss, sometimes you have to go hunting for study space, impossible to get computers in exam time
wifi everywhere, great facilities, very modern
love it, so glad i choose bham. the campus is one of the nicest ive seen, and the halls are all very well located
Campus is stunning and not too big/small. Theres so many societies to choose from with events on all the time so it's easy to get involved. The SU (guild of students) doesn't have much on compared to other unis with regard to nightlife, I think they have one night on every fortnight or something. Careers are really good and there's wifi all over campus
dodge wifi, lgbt society is s***, they're not all advertised so hard to find societies
lovely campus, amazing societies and sports!
It looks nice during winter, but can be bad to walk through when it is windy and raining in the winter, there is a fresh food stall that sells delirious strawberries and cherry tomatoes, but lots of other fruit and veg too.
UoB was my back up choice and it is the best decision i ever made!
Fantastic career focused University.
It's a lovely atmosphere - the campus is beautiful, and it is so easy to settle in.
The campus is breathtaking however there is some building work going on which is disruptive. The SU has many opportunities but perhaps not enough social spaces to enjoy.
Really nice campus, best for graduate jobs this year so have to give it 5 stars on career opportunities. Guild is good for a night out so yeah. And free good wifi on campus!
The campus is so beautiful and the clock tower just adds to the appeal, the choice of courses is also very broad
really good. But the student union is really far away and quite expensive. Lots of good places to eat with meal plan.
One of the reasons I chose the uni is the campus and it's still so lovely to walk around everyday.