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I really enjoyed my stay at Novel riverside, the building was very nice and staff really friendly, it was located in a good position for shopping and getting to campus, however since leaving in June 23 I have emailed and phoned on numerous occasions to get my deposit back and have received not one email or phone call back, this is really beginning to cause me stress as I need the money to help pay for rent on my new accommodation.
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| Riverside | #1 |
| Pavilion Court | #2 |
| Rhodaus Court | #3 |
| Pier Quays | #4 |
| Alma Court | #5 |
| Palamon Court | #6 |
| Turing College | #7 |
| Canterbury Student Village | #8 |
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Good for biomedical science with excellent research facilities, although would be better to see more independent support during coursework and exam season
I love it here! It’s the most perfect university
It does what it can- good experience
When I came to the uni it was top 20. Finna see if we can put it in a place it deserves
The union don’t care about your average students. They focus on LGBTQ+ rights (1% of the pop) to distract from their inability to connect with students and represent them accurately. The shop on campus is more expensive than any supermarket. There aren’t even microwaves available on campus. The sports facilities aren’t big enough or managed well enough. We regularly get games rescheduled from over booking. The union is an organisation in shambles.
I have loved my time at Kent! The campus is beautiful both in summer and winter and the views of the city and cathedral are remarkable. The staff are all amazingly helpful and welcoming and make the transition into uni life very easy and stress free. All the amenities on campus are great from the massive variety of bars, to the gym and even the shop. The societies are great and are a great way for students to meet new people and learn a new hobby!
Since joining the University of Kent I’ve seen success both academically and socially. The only complaint I have is the old student union meant that it was nearly impossible to set up a new society. I’m hoping that the newly elected Union staff will be much better.
Great experience, great education with lots of opportunities
After 4 years at Kent I can't shake the overwhelming feeling that profits and reputation are the unions main concerns over student welfare. There are multiple ways the university tries to get extra money from students; it costs to register for graduation and parking tickets are issued every day while the su shop has slowly been fazing out it's more value options. Students see the union as a new, more gullible parent who seems to have infinite time an money to cover up another headline when it can take you over a month to see a councillor.
I have loved first year so far, the accommidation is new and clean, and the library is huge and amazing. Everything is within walking distance, amazing :)
It’s been a good few years but it’s a quiet uni for my liking
Club life is awful need more campus pubs or something
Could be a good uni but the amount of contact hours you receive massively decreases the value of the uni. You’re paying for an expensive library card and teaching staff don’t care for you once you’ve completed their module
Kent has offered me great learning experiences and has a lovely campus
Great university, very diverse and accompanying to different cultures.
I've had a very good first year
Facilities are good except they close them off too early, so hard to find a place to study after 8 apart from the library which is packed most of the time
Great campus not too far from town, 24 hour library access great for studying and revision. Many different clubs to get involved in
They provide a great environment to learn in and although prices in union shop are outrageous the overall university is good. The reason for falling is due to the way they treat students changing and the fact that especially with costumes they have been highly too politically correct.
Great experience. Nice campus.
Got to be the worst uni in every way
Beautiful campus, great facilities, constantly renovating, great place to learn.
Campus is okay, ugly 1960s buildings but is very green and pretty. Only nice in the springs and summer really. But the field overlooking Canterbury is nice all year round. Wifi is not great, but it is eduroam, so you automatically connect every time you are in range of another place that usues eduroam. I'm on my year abroad, and instead of figuring out how to use their internet, I use my Kent eduroam. Union is okay, have messed up a few times, but has good intensions, plus they got a new hub for parkwood which was really needed.
The campus is just small. There are some usual clubs/societies. The internet connection is not stable on the entire campus.
Lots of restaurants/bars with decent food, a club, decent sports facilities, good (e)library facilities (busy during exam season but its expanding) Wide range of fun, engaging societies (Model UN is great!) Many activities always going on around campus! Fantastic career guidance from schools typically (psych especially), jobshop for temporary work, employability points scheme where you can redeem points for internships, Volunteering certificate scheme too Student Union has made helpful changes to our uni over the years, but some changes take a long time to do understandably
The campus is beautiful as well as Canterbury itself. Facilities are superb and the there are hundreds of societies to choose from. A great choose of university.
I really enjoyed my time at Kent but the School of Computing should be more prompt with results. I did a MSc in Computer Science and for some modules I had to wait 2 months to get my results. Same with final results, other departments on campus were significantly better with publishing their results. it's kinda embarrassing for the School of Computing to take that long, you'd think they have better software available and plenty of resources. Same with the computer labs, most departments on campus have better PCs. The laptops you can borrow in the library barely work. The university does not offer any initial print credit where most universities do. The cinema on campus is really good and cheap. The uni has a really good deal with Stagecoach and you can buy a yearly pass for around £180 which is a good deal. it's better to live off campus.
Amazing university! Love the campus!
The campus and lecturers are good !
My time at university of Kent has been amazing, I’ve been given fantastic opportunities in an amazing campus in an amazing city. My course lecturers and academics have further developed and inspired my interest and have given me the knowledge and support necessary to be successful in the outside world. The accommodation is wonderful and large even if you have to pay a bit more for it! Overall, Kent is an excellent place to study and I would highly recommend everyone to visit it
Kent has a diverse range of societies to take part in with great facilities on a beautiful campus.
My time at UKC has been brilliant. They have provided me with everything I needed and have always been hasty in helping with any issues I have. The facilities provide enough space for everyone to have a workplace even in the busiest of times. My only complaint is that setting up a society can be a difficult task and the system currently in place is hard to use and requests take weeks to get processed.
It's a hidden gem. Professors are amazing, place is nice and vibrant. You can do anything!
I think the University of Kent is an excellent university! I have thoroughly enjoyed my 3 years at the establishment and would definitely recommend for other aspiring university students to apply.
Brilliant university with a fantastic careers advice service.
What a uni bruh. Just What. A. Uni. Yaknow.
Great place to go to uni, the Union is hated on campus, but the teaching and feel of the campus is great
Had nothing but good experiences in my first year and have loved every second of being part of a society. A big campus with a lot on it.
I have loved every moment of my first year experience
The students union at medway is absolutley terrible. The campus is really small and there aren't many societies to join. I tried to start a Brazilian Jiujitsu society last year and unfortunately I didn't receive any guidance from the Univerirsty as to how about going about it and it fell apart shortly after. I'm not sure about the Cantebury campus but Medway is atrocious.
Underrated uni, 8/8 would recommend
Eduroam is a pain but it's probably like that everywhere
Very busy campus with a lot of events, there's always something happening that you can be involved in, staff and fellow students are all very helpful and there is a fantastic community feel. There are a few issues regarding seating in the library - it can be hard to find a seat in peak times - but if you have your own laptop and books there are plenty of study hubs dotted around campus to provide extra space to study, most are also equipped with desktop computers for students to do work. There are also many places to eat on campus all with different options of food to accommodate every appetite, along with street food vendors in the central plaza - there is also a 30 minute walk into Canterbury city centre which is a very nice walk down, not so much back to campus as it's all up hill but there are very convenient bus links with buses around every 10 minutes to and from campus on weekdays.
A nice large campus, 20 min bus ride to town. The gym is a bit small and can get very busy
The campus is boring and becomes very tedious and the centre is at least a twenty minute walk away.
Great uni so far, although the library may get busy, there are many study hubs tucked away that always have a lot of space. Nightlife is abundant and always something going on at the bars or venue . The town is accessable easily by bus or walking if not essentials is on your doorstep. The uni itself is very well maintained , and walking through parkwood is great to clear your mind and get lost in some trees. The WiFi when it works is reliable, but many areas the WiFi simply cuts off (such as the back of parkwood) and this is frustrating.
Money grabbing university. Will do anything possible to get even more money from you ranging from fines related to your halls, making noise, etc through to fining you for parking on campus. Lectures are diabolical, consists of a powerpoint read word for word, help from lecturers is never given, seminar supervisors are students who have no knowledge in what they're teaching you and more often than not, know not much at all. Would not wish my worst enemy go to Kent.
They say we're the same as Canterbury campus and we're linked, but we're not. It's very much canterbury campus is Kent university and then there's Medway campus. The forgotten campus. Recently the presidential campaign for kent union came to Medway and none of them has ever really spent time on the campus. One even said that Medway campus is their own thing so he wouldn't even bother coming down anyway. It's not what I thought a university campus would be like. It's just terrible.
The internet is pretty shoddy. Regularly cuts in and out.
Events are not very well known about but it's pretty, green and social, basically really good
Great campus with nearly everything at your reach
The campus is very beautiful and the facilities are excellent. Only problem is that there's only on club on campus.
University of Kent is the perfect place for students. Our social scene is amazing, campus facilities are top notch and our careers service and jobshop are great.
I think Kent has a great campus, which isn't too large or too small, the furthest I can imagine anyone walking is 40 minutes (from the furthest part of Parkwood to Darwin probably). Venue holds a special place in my heart too, I love that place. The amount of clubs and societies are great, though I wish Kent sport promoted all sports clubs equally (no photographer bothered to come to our varsity gala which we won).
My experience so far at Kent has been marred by my location at the Medway Campus: The town in which this campus resides is deprived of funding and has huge unemployment, making the expected "cultural experience" of going to university a slap in the face. The main campus feels like a commuter campus as it is the smaller secondary shared campus for Greenwich, Kent and CCCU meaning there is practically nothing besides religious societies and men only sports teams. The Drill Hall Library saves this campus from being a disaster, as it is well stocked and computers are always available. I am starting work at the newly built Student Hub opening in September this year, which I hope is a vast improvement to the feel of the campus. The Dockyard Campus where Kent Business School is located, is beautiful and regularly used for filming, lectures take place in a beautiful old church and there is free access to the Maritime museum featuring a submarine and two huge ships.
Love Kent just wish it wasn't so expensive
Great services and facilities are easy to use and get to
Amazing University, great course, brilliant sports clubs and societies.
Great uni. Holds socials all the time. Had its own club, Bars and restaurants. WiFi available campus wide. Nice location. On a hill. Can see the whole of Canterbury. They have societies and clubs for most things. Great social life
Awesome so glad I didn't go anywhere else
I just love this University. I'm so glad I came here :)
It's an awesome university to attend, highly recommend.
This was my second choice of uni but I am so glad that I came here. The atmosphere on campus is generally good spirited and everyone I've met is just so lovely.
Its everything you expect from a world class university! So diversed and environmental friendly.
Great campus in a lovely town. Plenty of pubs/clubs/bars Friendly campus and loads of societies.
Great atmosphere. incredibly green. Amazing university experience.
Well, I live in Medway (Gillingham) and it is just awful, so many muggings, people setting off fire alarms to raid people's stuff, smoking in places you're not supposed to and the area is very 'chavvy' and honestly just not a safe place to live in yet alone study for students, who's first experience living by themselves could be the same as mine, just awful.
My accommodation is expensive but so much nicer than I expected. Having bars, restaurants and a nightclub on campus is really convenient. There's always something going on and living on campus makes it easy to feel part of a community.
It's good, but surprisingly expensive in comparison to other universities up north.
The university of Kent pretty much offers everything, it has a wide range of societies, the committees are all really good aswell. The student support service is amazing here, and the ampus is really well equipped with it's own shop (granted it's slightly more expensive). I live in the 'worst' accommodation in Darwin College, but honestly I love it and all my housemates so I wouldn't live anywhere else, (plus its almost the cheapest one on campus)
UKC is a really good quality uni, they have great scholarships available (look into it for real, sometimes you have to apply for the scholarship whilst you're applying through UCAS). But the Student Union is a little bureaucratic and there is always building work going on and everything's pretty freaking expensive, you better give up on doing laundry unless you want to spend a tenner every time to get your stuff dry. The library is cool, too much building work though. On campus food is a bit gross unless you go to the Gulbenkian but that's pretty expensive (unless you get a jacket potato) The Venue is gross but loads of people love it so it's probably decent if you like that kind of thing, although actually they all claim to hate it so I'm not really sure what's going on there. There's an AMAZING view from certain places in the uni. Kinda obstructed by building work though which is really annoying. I came to this place for the view and the ducks and the scholarship...
Very nice environment with greens everywhere. The atmosphere for studying is great as well. An excellent library with new facilities.
All very good, campus itself is lovely
Careers service fantastic and really helpful in 3rd year with job applications
The university has a large investment into modernisation at the moment, but that makes it feel like I'm studying on a construction site.
WiFi needs upgrading but the rest is great.
Very sporty, quite cliquey, quiet
Generally great Campus to live on. Keynes college rooms are surprisingly small. They look bigger in pictures on the hospitality website.
It's a nice place to be with good facilities.
Yeah so far so good. Not much gets complained about here apart from the 9am lectures and seminars. Haven't tried out all services, such as the career's service so I can't rate it too accurately but I haven't heard anything negative about it.
The campus is very open and full of nature. There are rabbits, plenty of trees, green areas and fresh air. It's a short walk away from Canterbury city centre yet the university itself is situated atop a hill. The staff are incredibly helpful and very friendly, and I'm yet to have a bad experience with anything related to the university itself.
Great university - lecturers & seminar leaders are brilliant and Canterbury is cute as anything. Bars all over campus. Accomodation varies a lot but is mostly good.
Excellent uni! Love everything about it, glad this is where I am at.
Wifi need to be improve, I find it a rip off that sport members have to pay gym membership as well
My insurance choice, but so much better than expected
Student union is not good at all. Only one club on campus and rumours of it closing this year.
very beautiful campus and enjoy the area
It is very good here, lots to get involved with, the campus itself is quite clean and has lots of green spaces
With the exception of the Job office, everything runs smoothly. I had my window replaced after it was vandalised, no hassle.
Definitely made the right choice of university! The nightlife is not the best as there are only a handful of clubs in town but nevertheless that means there's never an empty club seen. The eduroam wifi is poor but I have discovered that it is not the university's fault and many other universities use eduroam aswell! The societies are fantastic, there are many to choose from and something for everyone! It is even easy to set up your own society which I have done in the space of 2 weeks. There is never a boring day at Kent!
Absolutely love the university
Lovely uni and people, everyone always tries to help :)
Amazing university, better than some of the Russell groups
In my 3rd year and thoroughly enjoying my university experience. Kent has everything that I need.
I have been at Kent for 3 years and I have found it to be a great place to work and study.
Wish we had better student bars as they aren't fab! And essentials is ridiculously over priced should just be a co-op! But the library and Study hubs are amazing!
Wouldn't have chosen to go anywhere else
Well run university, student village is brilliant. Teaching quality is excellent and courses are well laid out with high accessibility to resources online and physically. Student union can be slightly expensive but all events have a good vibe and are very professional.
I am having a great time here. The University is very nice and all the facilitates are top-notch.
A generally fantastic university which endorses work/life balance and the need for its students to undergo a smooth transition from academic to professional life. Offering a wide range of degrees and expert knowledge from its staff, this will surely satisfy any prospective students wishing to embark on high class HE, just a short while from London without the extortionate cost of living within the capital. A great place to study also for international students, whose large amount every year helps both new internationals socialise with their compatriots to settle in, and existing students develop firm relationships with citizens from different geographical, cultural and linguistic backgrounds. I am always proud of being a member of this institution and will continue to be upon my graduation.