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3.99 / 5 from 91 verified student reviews

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Hands down a phenomenal University. Did my undergraduate degree in Psychology & Counselling, every member of staff was amazing and went above and beyond. Grading was fair, every issue that I had has been dealt with swiftly. Such a friendly, small place ideal for the first uni experience. It’ll be hard finding one just as amazing!

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Abertay University (Dundee) Ranking


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University of Plymouth #85
Abertay University (Dundee) #86
University of the Arts London (UAL) #87
University of Kent #88
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Leeds Trinity University #90
University of Brighton #91

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Abertay University (Dundee) Hall Rankings


Marketgait Apartments #1
Peterson Hall #2
Keiller Court #3
iQ Parker House #4
The Hub #5
Kingsway Apartments #6

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Hands down a phenomenal University. Did my undergraduate degree in Psychology & Counselling, every member of staff was amazing and went above and beyond. Grading was fair, every issue that I had has been dealt with swiftly. Such a friendly, small place ideal for the first uni experience. It’ll be hard finding one just as amazing!

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Entry Requirements

96-112 UCAS Points

Average range for Abertay University (Dundee) entry requirements. Varies depending on the course.


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Applications:
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Acceptances:
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Acceptance rate:
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Student Review: 4.2 /5
By member793236 On 23rd October 23 verified Verified student

The university has brilliant facilities that everyone can use and the different clubs are brilliant and they have some brilliant social nights, everyone is very kind and welcoming

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Student Review: 4.4 /5
By member1092667 On 16th October 23 verified Verified student

It's a very welcoming and friendly place to study.

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Student Review: 4.2 /5
By member1192277 On 10th October 23 verified Verified student

Been very welcoming and supportive so far!

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Student Review: 2.6 /5
By member492232 On 10th October 23 verified Verified student

My block is crap compared to the other blocks in looks, quality and location but everything else is okay

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Student Review: 5 /5
By member989128 On 19th July 23 verified Verified student

Hands down a phenomenal University. Did my undergraduate degree in Psychology & Counselling, every member of staff was amazing and went above and beyond. Grading was fair, every issue that I had has been dealt with swiftly. Such a friendly, small place ideal for the first uni experience. It’ll be hard finding one just as amazing!

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Student Review: 5 /5
By member1389017 On 16th July 23 verified Verified student

This college is located in arbroath and has brilliant and supportive staff

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Student Review: 4.2 /5
By member588787 On 7th July 23 verified Verified student

Excellent facilities, helpful staff, only gave students union three starts because I've never been involved so I cannot comment and would be unfair to give an overly negative or positive review

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Student Review: 4.2 /5
By member1087429 On 10th June 23 verified Verified student

So far throughout my course Abertay has been excellent, lecturers are knowledgeable on subject fields and able to help with issues I've had, the buildings are modern and upkept well, and overall nothing has gone badly

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Student Review: 3.8 /5
By member786385 On 18th May 23 verified Verified student

Staff are all enjoyable to be around.

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Student Review: 5 /5
By member866130 On 9th February 22 verified Verified student

Good working class university. Sez staff helpful. Good location and cafe is nice. Helpful course leader.

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Student Review: 2.8 /5
By member666011 On 4th February 22 verified Verified student

This is the best college i went. But i must say that while they spend a lot of money in the institution, the accommodations they own... Jesus, is a Scam. Go live somewhere else, there are a lot of options.

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Student Review: 5 /5
By member458488 On 30th May 21 verified Verified student

I went to the open day and the staff were so helpful. The courses are amazing here too.

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Student Review: 3 /5
By member1359150 On 28th May 21 verified Verified student

due to covid, I have spent almost no time in the building

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Student Review: 4 /5
By member1057825 On 14th May 21 verified Verified student

Overall a great university, well managed even in difficult times with covid.

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Student Review: 4 /5
By member1157343 On 5th May 21 verified Verified student

Abertay is a technology based university which holds game creation courses high. Since I take this kind of course the university is brilliant. Great lecturers and great lab content. However the pandemic with its online classes lowered the quality of my learning experience.

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Student Review: 5 /5
By Carmenbernabe On 17th February 21 verified Verified student

This is a good university, it's not very big so it feels like a family.

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Student Review: 3 /5
By member453988 On 8th February 21 verified Verified student

Couldn't use a lot the facilities this year however they were good thr year prior

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Student Review: 2.4 /5
By member953983 On 8th February 21 verified Verified student

Due to lockdown, I have not seen the campus. I have only seen the campus briefly when I had a tour before my gap year in 2018

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Student Review: 1.2 /5
By sleepincarnate On 24th November 20 verified Verified student

If you want to study art here, just spare your money and time and get some good online courses, you will learn just as much, since lecturers don't go farther than teaching the basics of any software here, the rest of the learning is always on you and the feedback is extremely lacking. You will have to deal with academic researchers who never had to apply to a game career in their life and game designers who wish to enslave you to create bizarre and boring game concepts. And yes, the above is the art course. Stay away, trust me on this.

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Student Review: 1.2 /5
By member1351383 On 3rd October 20 verified Verified student

Poor communication at Parker house and unfair treatment

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Student Review: 1 /5
By member448866 On 31st May 20 verified Verified student

DO NOT COME HERE IF YOU ARE NOT STUDYING GAMES/COMPUTING! The University really does not cater for other students! They have put too much investment in the Games Design courses whilst leaving others behind. Abertay has also just shut the student union, making the on site services bare.

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Student Review: 3 /5
By member748863 On 30th May 20 verified Verified student

Nice small uni, friendly. Good quality library with quiet floors. Cafe is a little expensive especially for students. Uni is very dominated by gamers and doesn't shine much light on other subjects. Not too many clubs to choose from and there is never any events as there is no student union.

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Student Review: 3.6 /5
By Becca Stewart On 22nd April 20 verified Verified student

Great university however needs some revamping as the buildings are big and some nice! Lecturers are good bar a small group

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Student Review: 5 /5
By member1047473 On 22nd April 20 verified Verified student

A great university where all the students and staff are close knit.

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Student Review: 3.2 /5
By member947470 On 22nd April 20 verified Verified student

On a bit of a downward spiral it would seem. The staff are incredible but there are some issues which need fixed like te complete lack of a student union.

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Student Review: 1 /5
By TomBoy On 14th April 20 verified Verified student

Univerity has been going downhill and something really needs to change.

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Student Review: 1 /5
By TomBoy On 14th April 20 verified Verified student

Just save your time, energy and money and choose a different university.

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Student Review: 1 /5
By TomBoy On 14th April 20 verified Verified student

Someone mentioned that this uni is a scam and I couldn't agree more. Nobody cares about the student. Power only cares about the outside reputation, ratings and the money. And it is really obvious. Especially with master students. they are tought basic skills and nobody cares about them at all, it's just an income for the uni. Support services just put a nice face on and say that they are helpful when in reality they don't know s*** about what's happening. A lot of bullying going on around especially with game design and artists. In the last years the univerity has been going downhill and something really needs to be changed.

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Student Review: 1.4 /5
By member1047152 On 4th April 20 verified Verified student

Awful place, especially if you're not a game design student. Art students in particular are thrown to the dogs and have units catered to SUPPORTING the game designers, with no actual feedback or s**** given about them specifically. But going to sessions where everyone talks exclusively to the game design and programming students is mandatory. Everything is made to be about game design, months worth of lectures seem to forget they're not actually TEACHING game design courses, and woe betide you if you believed promises of their "hands on" teaching - because at the end of the day during big projects you'll be lucky to get more than a minute of their individual time because literally no tutors seem capable of managing theirs like grown-ups.

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Student Review: 1.4 /5
By member446945 On 25th March 20 verified Verified student

MPROF in Game Development is a waste of time. The closest word coming to my mind when I think about it is 'scam'. It's way below Masters level of education. Lecturers don't care about us. The feeling that they're here just to get easy money is clearly visible. We are left on our own with everything. We had to find our own projects and professional game developers to get feedback from them (if you don't know any of them personally then you have to bother unknown people - the best way to get blacklisted!). Lecturers will eventually tell you if you did enough or not - it's all that this uni has to offer. This and PC with Adobe software (other software is mostly available for free anyway) and MS Office (it's our main tool, not game engines). As a bonus, we got a module in which lecturer is focused on politics and social justice, not on game development itself. Are you ready to pay 5, 9 or 15k for this? I heard from other courses that it's not better there. Absolute mess, useless lecturers

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Student Review: 1.2 /5
By member1146080 On 25th February 20 verified Verified student

I am in 4th year Games programming student and I can safely say that the University is a disaster. It has no student union at all (just a tiny shop with a dead cafe), it gives you empty promises when you apply. We were promised to be tought with the best up to date hardware but ended up learning to code on already discontinued PSvita. The course in general is unorganised, it changes all the time and you feel like a laboratory rat. No staff that actually cares about their job, impossible to get references, awfully tiny gym, University is too small to form any good societies, difficult to find friends. Everyone treats depression as a normal thing and excpect you to have it. The queue to see the councelling is too long so you might not even be able to seek for help, no way of challenging the grade received, no clear marking scheme, seems like the space has been redone only to hide how useless most of the staff is. Not to mention accommodation filled with rats.

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Student Review: 3.4 /5
By member1340274 On 11th July 19 verified Verified student

Not much help after doing my course

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Student Review: 5 /5
By member538092 On 17th May 19 verified Verified student

Great Place to study and live!

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Student Review: 4.6 /5
By member937618 On 3rd May 19 verified Verified student

I have had an amazing experience at this uni so far. the support network, facilities, PhD research and support their students are outstanding

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Student Review: 3.6 /5
By Gregorz On 18th September 18 verified Verified student

not a lot of sports facilities but can use dundee universities for reasonable charge

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Student Review: 4.8 /5
By member1033841 On 14th September 18 verified Verified student

I did my marketing and business degree there. Loved it. Had so many opportunities to engage with real live businesses and my supervisor was a true superhero- he did put me in touch with alumni all over the world to help with my dissertation :)

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Student Review: 3.8 /5
By Annikavan3 On 11th August 18 verified Verified student

Not far from city centre pub and bars

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Student Review: 4 /5
By Derrick On 10th August 18 verified Verified student

Computing facilities excellent but not many social - but we walk to Centre and to Dundee students union.

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Student Review: 4.4 /5
By member633116 On 25th July 18 verified Verified student

Always plenty of places to study. Careers and support services SEZ are just great. Really friendly and supportive lecturers, and the library is cool. Not much going on socially on campus but it is close to city centre and dundee uni facilities which I also access. Students union are proactive.

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Student Review: 5 /5
By member1032946 On 19th July 18 verified Verified student

Excellent university, brilliant lectures. Everyone is happy to hell

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Student Review: 1 /5
By member828081 On 4th September 17 verified Verified student

Avoid. The games courses will only teach you how to use frameworks. The faculty are bullies. They are the very worst people I have met, they will not help you beyond their limited skills which have not been relevant for 20 years.

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Student Review: 3.8 /5
By member725102 On 17th December 16 verified Verified student

Internet is often down which is quite bad for a technical specified uni

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Student Review: 4.2 /5
By member723945 On 9th September 16 verified Verified student

Had a very enjoyable time at Abertay, there's a few professors in particular that really made my experience great.

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Student Review: 4.4 /5
By member1111070 On 11th July 15 verified Verified student

Had a really good experience at Abertay really enjoyed the university experience, the lecturers are great and very helpful. I got my dream job through university as a college lecturer at NESCOL, wouldn't of got that job if it wasn't for Abertay. Unfortunately I didn't get to finish my final year at Abertay due to the fact of working full time. Would defiantly recommend Abertay and have recommended it to the students that I now teach!

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Student Review: 4.2 /5
By member1210993 On 10th July 15 verified Verified student

One of the best computer facilities in a university that I've seen, great people and really friendly staff.

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Student Review: 4.8 /5
By member1010841 On 10th July 15 verified Verified student

Fab uni, quite small so easy enough to get around but big enough to feel like uni. My course is quite small so everyone knows each other which is also fab. The teaching is great and the library has everything you need :)

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Student Review: 3.2 /5
By member410839 On 10th July 15 verified Verified student

Abertay is a great university with fantastic staff.

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Student Review: 4.2 /5
By member610695 On 9th July 15 verified Verified student

I love it! It's friendly, highly educational and has a central location.

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Student Review: 3.6 /5
By member1010691 On 9th July 15 verified Verified student

Small university with great staff, but struggles due to its facilities!

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Student Review: 3.8 /5
By member1110676 On 9th July 15 verified Verified student

It's class but union needs to be better

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Student Review: 4.2 /5
By member910675 On 9th July 15 verified Verified student

Always on hand to help with any problems - so supportive.

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Student Review: 4.4 /5
By member910671 On 9th July 15 verified Verified student

Small campus making it easy to get around and meet people. Everyone's lovely!

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Student Review: 3.8 /5
By member410665 On 9th July 15 verified Verified student

The staff are fantastic, very willing to help and nothing is ever too much bother.

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Student Review: 3.6 /5
By member1110663 On 9th July 15 verified Verified student

The lecturers at Abertay are very kind and supporting. There is always a friendly face around. Although the union is not the place for a great night out it is good for a pint and a game of pool with a few mates.

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