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Appalled with the lack of compassion from this universy
I studied for a masters degree at the University of Manchester. Given my time again I would never go back here, based on my experiences. The academics did not care one jot about my education. There were very few classes and my polite emails asking for help were ignored. I self-taught almost everything, which was extremely stressful. I actually received more help online from staff at other universities (I am not making this up!). All communication on my course had to go through the school office via their official email. As such, there were some lecturers on the course who I never saw in person. I did not feel like a student here, at all. I really regret not going to Surrey or Birmingham who have a more open and friendly approach with their students. In summary I did not receive an education at Manchester. It is a degree factory with unfriendly staff, both academic and clerical.
It was a happy time with great students and supportive staff
Best uni I have been to, I enjoyed every bit of my time there!
The learning commons and my friends at college is what makes the difference. Apart from that its okay.
Internet service is rarely patchy but that's just eduroam! The careers team are really good and thoroughly helpful, even with niche postgraduate queries for the future. The clubs and society choices are fantastic. The best part is if there really isn't something for your fancy, you can just make your own society with a clear set of goals and some helpful volunteers and the Union will back you. The SU is very good, however they are thoroughly pushing the PC vibe which not only leads to some questionable media presence but also, sometimes the actual needs of the majority of students goes out the window. In a fight to be the most politically correct voice, sometimes students are witness to some organisational blunders and some really delayed replies and points of action. All in all, lovely people though. The facilities are dated and not maintained, the tutors in the flats have power-complexes in the nicer halls, the Estates team are really hard to track down and get stuff done
I am only going to review the North Campus, the engineering section. This campus is depressing, full of old buildings and old ways of doing things. The communication between the staff and students is awful. They don't tell you anything. It's a joke. Spend your money elsewhere, avoid at all costs.
Eduroam always crashes. Apart from that the uni are always really helpful
Lovely staff Shernise from chemistry building great attitude friendly and very welcoming as well serving best coffee in town wonderful worker
the campus is well organised. sometimes the wifi is down.
University is overall a good uni
This university offers a very active student life, modern teachings..
nothing going on at students union, next to impossible to make friends in the city as its so large, so if you have a s*** flat, youre completely screwed. i even joined societies and couldnt meet anyone at all as noone is open to socialising
Amazing laboratory facilities, great people, cheap to live
The halls are shocking - broken vents and broken locks, car damaged twice in a £120 parking space, unhealthy catered food, pest infestations incl cockroaches and rats, unwilling and unhelpful reslife, shocking overcrowded library services, terrible internet that cuts out daily
Everything is available in the University however it is not easily found or known about due to lack of communication. Students Union host good events and gigs but do not expect any student academic support.
An amazing university in an amazing city there’s not much else to say
Great place to study loved every minute of my degree!
So glad i went to Manchester, great mental health facilities, beautiful libraries and best night life. You don't get much help academically but I kinda liked the independence.
it is the worse university I have been to in the whole UK and I have been to 3. They bully international students and students with disabilities. If you have a choice go to any London university -City is very nice.
Its the biggest uni in the country and gets a stupid amount of funding, they're using the money well and i feel it!!!
As an international student, this uni is amazing. Made many nice friends, met people from all around the world, enjoyed the lovely Business school... I just love the city. One downside is that the career service isn't super helpful
Great chemical engineering facilties, really passionate lecturers and extra support like office hours and video lectures are brillant
Love it here, wouldn't go anywhere else
Free wifi everywhere, the Ali G is an amazing place to study in (open 24hrs) and the student union is great for food (reasonably priced vegan options too!)
great uni , nice people , diverse students
Great place to live and highly acclaimed (for good reason) uni to study at
It was great, the libraries were amazing
Glad I got a place at Manchester. Great city to live in with lots to offer. WiFi is always fast and reliable wherever you go. The main campus and its buildings are excellent and extensive. One particular highlight is the 24hr Learning Commons where you can pull an all nighter if you need to. Not many clubs or societies which appeal to me and the Students Union is somewhat disappointing compared to others like Cardiff, but plenty of other places to go to anyway. The campus and halls are also located on a busy and reliable bus route so it’s easy to travel around. My hall (Owens Park) is appalling but I’m sure this does not apply to the rest of the university’s halls, most of which look nice.
Careers service non existent, Staff don't have an open door policy and can be quite rude and full of themselves. Every person i've asked either lacks enthusiasm or hates it, even the local students. Lots of international students, Like c.a. 4:1 ratio.
Rubbish student union. Food selection is rubbish and their food events are just cringe. The only people who go are international students. Never enough spaces to sit in the library. Where are my tuition fees going ?!!!
The University of Manchester tries hard to keep its rank as high possible, by increasing the wirk loads of the PhD students, increasing its expectations, and their stresses. There is no ear to listen to the OhD students, poor PhD supervision, very bad guide without understanding the students need. The career services just advise the international students to go back homes, the faculty is do old. The staff is not helpful not teolying your emails. Group meetings are nonsense and out of targets. They only push the PhD stufents to have outcome gor them without any guidance, and usually the students feedback are not heard. The only thing matters them is collaboration without providing details. Supervisors are chasing the students by calling them at midnight on their progresses. It was so stressful to study in such a place and hopefully this will end soon.
I have been a part of the university for over a year and I believe it has provided me with the best career advice
A great university in an inexpensive city- one of the best universities for being a student!
It's a nice Campus, with everyone ready to help and make your experience enjoyable. Manchester is a great place for students, it's not too touristic, has lots of students, and there are lots of student discounts everywhere. There are lots of places to eat or just enjoy your morning coffee around campus, there's wide selection of clubs and societies and everyone can find something for themselves
Bums on seats Uni. They really don't care about students they just want your money. They don't really take notice if your there or not so long as you get good grades.
Best social life. Great people and great facilities.
I had the absolute best 3 years of my life at Manchester. The standard of lectures was exceptional and the ability to get involved with student life and societies is second to none. I do not know anybody who didn’t like the uni. I met the most fantastic people and friends for life. Most people stay on to life in Manchester after because it’s a smaller cheaper London.
Just finished my first year here, it is a very good university but as other reviews have said, the staff can come across quite rude and full of themselves. A lot of students here are the same. Clubs and societies are poor - a lot of them won't accept you if you don't have experience or aren't talented in a particular area which is annoying and can make you feel quite lonely sometimes because there's nothing to do. Other than these points the university itself is good, a lot of support and libraries etc available.
Overall a nice university. Very good facilities. Lots of places to study, eat, meet people, do sports. I haven’t been involved into societies. The SU was helpful but not that much. Careers service can be very helpful to find a job. Internet was okay, although it was slow at times and everytime I opened my laptop, i had to reconnect for it to work.
'Neglagence to diligence is ignorance'. Great Uni. Come here. Social life is brilliant and if you like going out its top drawer. Had a great time here and when people want to crack down with work; they do. Staff are generally good, but its quite liberal so be aware of some strikes. Also remember - People who do reviews are usually a bit weird anyway so don't always trust 'em.
Great University, fantastic city, brilliant support & mega social life.
Internet everywhere - lots of help. I’m only in first year but I have thoroughly enjoyed it.
My time at this university has been the worst time of my life, no question. From day one I felt isolated and alone. At such a big university you would think this wouldn't be the case, but the social events are poor and unless you already have a talent for something there are no societies to cater to you. Different universities seem to attract different sorts of people, and Manchester seems to attract people who are completely apathetic about everything. Many of the students here seem to have no desire to do any work, no one is enthusiastic about anything and many people are very emotionally distant with no apparent desire to make anything beyond a superficial connection with anyone. As a passionate and enthusiastic person, I have found it very difficult trying to have conversations with people who don't care about anything. The organisation is a joke. The study facilities are non existent. Course content was interesting and career service really helpful, but overall a waste of time
I'm currently finishing my 2nd year as CS student in this University. In short, don't go here. Teaching: If you want to prepare for the lab or the exam - you have to Google, Google and Google. For a lot of subjects, students go and watch Stanford Uni lectures online to understand the material. No comments. 3rd year project is an illusion, student proposal is an illusion, as you would have to find to find the supervisor yourself. Once you start doing that, you realise everyone replies with "I'm full." And then you realise that good staff-proposed projects are taken by the time you receive this pointless answer. Campus/Facilities: CS building is awful on the outside and dull on the inside. Careers Service: it's almost non existent. University relies on you doing all the search when it actually comes to finding a placement, for instance. The will not help you if you are international student, they won't support you. Awful experience.
I love manchester. it's beautiful. the people are lovely as well, better than anyone from london
They are always fixing things but the quality does not improve.
Very big, diverse university. Huge range of societies and teams, and many different subjects. Library is huge and there are many other study areas available, however there is no way enough study space for all students and it is often very difficult to find anywhere to sit and revise. University is quite close to the city centre, but much of the accommodation is not in nice places, mainly victoria park and fallow field is quite rough too. Overall quite good, lots of opportunity and help available.
I don't care too much as long as the uni has a good reputation.
Okay university, must go to the Freshers fairs to easily get involved in anything otherwise feels like there is no opportunities afterwards.
I am a distance learning student and I find very little support from tutors. Some tutors are amazing but most are very disappointing. No follow-up at all. Assignment marking is usually not fair. I receive very little feedback on how to improve in my assignments. For example, I got 50/100 on one assignment with a feedback saying "excellent piece of work". Further, I don't think that those tutors care about how much knowledge we gain, the are making a huge deal about critique skills and writing skills. You can easily get a distinction if you write an assignment containing only critiques with no scientific basis, and fail if you link critiques with the knowledge you learn throughout the course. Again, I am not talking about all tutors. Some are very helpful and provide realistic feedback and help students improve. As an online student, I hardly ever get the chance to participate in any uni events.
There needs to be more social events for people to make friends. Unlike other University who have events every week, there are very few student nights here.
Really good experience, social, buzzing and you feel part of a uni.
UoM is sux !!! UoM boasting (lying) of their reputation all the times rather than really working out to support their students. You will be treated like a fool here and most of the academic staffs showing no respect at all to the students, they are behaving very rude. Their daily working protocol is the notion "backing up each other". This is when an academician committing wrong doing, the other academician would attempt to cover up the mistake, exaggerating by boasting the academician reputation (e.g won a Nobel prize) and turning the blame to the students by finding thousands of weaknesses in the students to counter. Horrible conspiracy indeed. As a student, you should find a university with supportive academicians and environments, don't believe in 'marketings' and 'advertisements'. Alan Turing is the past, you will not even be the next Nobel Prize winner by coming to UoM. But surely by coming to UoM, you will be a fool and be served as a fool . Be a wise consumer..
Everything is as you'd expect from a great city red-brick university, except the student union sucks. Like the student union is so bad in so many ways, you just have to come here to see it.
Manchester University claims that they are looking after students’ wellbeing and care about their difficulty but my experience was exact opposite. I found the university very money oriented, as I get loads of call and emails for asking for money which I shouldn’t pay. I was student’s rep and witness loads of lecture and attachments being cancelled. Examiner for final examination was changed just a few days before exams. I can mention a huge list of shortfalls in the post graduate Dentistry but all of these shows lack of attention of people in charge of the course toward the students.
I have studied at three different universities and there are certain qualities about Manchester that I really don't like. Firstly there is no campus feel. Secondly, teachers at my previous universities were very down to Earth and students were "normal". Here, lots of students are very middle class and the staff are not friendly and sometimes confrontational. In one class, the lecturer had a five minute arguement with a student who was speaking to someone next to him. This was in a huge lecture hall in Roscoe and there was barely any audible noise. I have heard that this happened frequently with this lecturer and there are others who are really not nice. The university feels artificial and like the only thing that matters is the reputation of the university. It feels like a business and students are livestock. There is no open door policy. Also, there were huge numbers of students in my classes here (over 200 in my first year).
Campus is nice, societies are all pretty awful if you don't like alcohol.
Internet is a bit unreliable sometimes, but the societies are endless and recent refurbishments to facilities are paying off.
Personally I haven't been that involved in this side of university life. So I can't really comment on the Students Union/Career service. I went to two societies and they were alright, they felt a bit unorganised but not bad considering they are run by students who have their own courses etc.
I'm writing this review as someone on the Autistic Spectrum and someone with longstanding mental health issues (depression, anxiety, suicidal tendencies). The university is absolutely HORRIBLE at dealing with and being compassionate for ANY mental health circumstances. As well as that they provided me with ZERO SUPPORT for my sport Taekwondo (in the olympics) in which I was a Commonwealth gold medalist and comepeting for Great Britain regularly. I do not compete in Taekwondo after being at this university. There really isn't any cause to go to this university if you have any history of mental health or sporting prowess. The majority of the staff undermine you as they don't take your mental health seriously, the support services are appalling (to the point where I attempted suicide and they referred me for a mental health appointment in 2 months), the mitigating circumstances are ridiculously hard to get and even if you get them you have a pay a stupid amount of money. Dont go here.
Study areas are noisy and often overcrowded. Library opening hours during summer are extremely limited at a time when post grad students are trying to do dissertation work. I would a advise seeking opportunities at other institutes which may have better facilities and cheaper course fees.
Deeply disheartened about how little support I got after been diagnosed with a learning disability. Do not attend.
I haven't heard one comment about how it helps you land a job and prepare you to actually be effective in whatsoever course you're taking (this is just a whole lot of business).
Fantastic university, questionable SU
If you get involved in the societies and clubs that are available it will definitely help you make the most of your time at Manchester as this is were many people meet a lot of their friends. The students union host events often such as Pangaea festival twice a year and Athletics union night every Wednesday which are pretty fun. I would say if you don't get involved then there isn't a huge sense of community at Manchester and you may end up feeling a bit isolated, get involved early on and don't leave it too late.
absolutely love it. better than I could've imagined - insane social opportunities, always something to do, beautiful city, great transport connections. amazing.
Manchester is great and huge. It provides outstanding facilities to students. Apart from being a slick uni, the quality of education is amazing. I have just graduated from the business school and the respect I got from employers are fantastic. The lecturers are world leaders in their research, the careers service is one of the best, the students union is the largest- the list goes on. Besides, the city itself is amazing being cheap and convenient in every way for a student population.
The South campus is full of great facilities, including the Students Union, libraries, cafes, computer clusters etc and is in a good location, very easy to get to from any of the accommodation areas. The uni has a very active students union with events such as Pangaea festival in September every year, and creating a student wristband for freshers week with organised events. There is a clubs/societies fair at the beginning of the year to showcase the different options, but societies can also be joined online which is pretty useful - good range include sports, creative societies such as fashion or blogging, international societies, societies for different subjects/schools etc so theres something for everyone
The campus is great with great facilities, however, the residneces were nit situated correctly.
The university of "bums on seats". You are just a number here. Expect lectures of 200+ people and little one to one time with tutors. No campus feeling. No prestige factor compared to LSE, Warwick or Oxbridge.
Best uni + best city for a mix of a high standard of academic work and crazy nightlife
Lovely campus with great facilities. Nice students union and lots of clubs with varieties.
Nice, attractive campus, in a good location not too far from the city centre, modern facilities, very sociable university
The campus is always under construction but if it wasn't it would be nice!
Improve SU more events and need psychology society events
Need better wifi. More computers
Brilliant facilities and lots of societies
not enough computers in the library and really randomly placed toilets. su's alright. nice giant tv they spent 123k on though well in
Amazing city, great facilities and cheap!
The SU is fantastic at Manchester and even holds the largest student festival in Europe 3 times a year - Pangaea! You can find any club or society at the dressers fair in September , but if you miss that you can join online! Manchester have massive ability on the sports side of things, but don't worry about that interfering with your social life because Wednesday will be your night! There are more academic societies too - something to suit everyone!
Students union isn't cheap but the halls bar Squirrels is £1.30 a pint!
It was hard to come to another country for studies, but the university has been very welcoming and supportive. The way the things are done here is just incredible. easily the best desition I made was to come to this university.
Great university with fantastic facilities and teaching.
I like Manchester. Manchester is nice. Manchester is big. Manchester has a lot of buses, a lot of fast food outlets, a lot of alternative bars, a lot of music, a lot of clubs, a lot of cool kids. Manchester is fun fun fun fun fun fun fun
Its a very good student city, the university is very well equipped, only complaint is the wifi is very slow
I love this university, great city and people!
The rooms are small, cosy the view is disaappointing a car park. The reception are kind and friendly. The door locks avoid us from interacting with everyone in the building. There is no wi-fi
Victoria Halls are great place to be close to uni and are also one of the much nicer accommodation on offer. More quiet than other halls however still plenty of people to have flat parties with and have a good time
Great university, cheap SU bar, modern facilities and amazing people.
amazing social life, supportive tutors and lovely people - couldnt be better
Internet can be temperamental but it's everywhere so really useful
Very good university in general and it's in an amazing, lively city.
Great University to learn and to have fun.
Honestly, I can't think of anywhere else I'd go to study Life Sciences. The money available is crazy, all the facilities are top-notch and the support is excellent.
I'm from London and despite how hard it is to say Manchester is better in almost every way.
Such a great uni with a really fun atmosphere - so much going on, it's always buzzing.
I can't really fault the university. The only thing that would make me mark it down in facilities is the fact that us students who are paying £9,000 a year still have to pay for printer credit. Ridiculous.
Amazing uni overall, amazing place to live, perfect for all students
Everything is really well organized. The queue at the SSC is quite long sometimes