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UAL is a good university. I have enjoyed my time here so far. I wish that there was more time to balance my working life outside of uni as it is extremely difficult to have uji 4-5 days a week, go to work, do my uni work, etc
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University of the Arts London (UAL) Hall Rankings
| Elizabeth Croll House | #1 |
| Somerset Court | #2 |
| Camden Hawley Crescent | #3 |
| Portobello Garrow House | #4 |
| Angel Lane | #5 |
| Moonraker Point | #6 |
| Glassyard Building | #7 |
| Hayloft Point | #8 |
| Vega | #9 |
| Sidney Webb House | #10 |
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UAL is a good university. I have enjoyed my time here so far. I wish that there was more time to balance my working life outside of uni as it is extremely difficult to have uji 4-5 days a week, go to work, do my uni work, etc
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University of the Arts London (UAL) Reputation
The University of the Arts, London (UAL) has several buildings across Central London and surrounding areas. 22,455 students are enrolled at UAL:
- 10,390 of these students come from the UK
- 2,340 come from EU countries
- And 9,720 are students from non-EU countries.
(Source: HESA 2021/22)
The graduate outcomes for UAL, London show that six months after leaving university, 55% of graduates are in work or further study. The typical graduate salary six months after leaving UAL is £18-21k a year.
(Source: HESA Graduate Outcomes Data Survey 2017/18)
Updated: 13th February 2023
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ual is my dream school. I really like it here. It is very free here, and the teachers and classmates are very nice. The school also provides us with a lot of learning resources.
Good learning rhythm, good learning environment, professional courses with appropriate difficulty
Really joy that I have such great time with my tutor and classmate, to be honest I'm not a social guy who coming abroad with my own friends but it just can quickly get me into the school atmosphere.
The campus and facilities of this university are brilliant and fascinating.I really hope that I can learn more things during the period of time in the school.
It's not a very good place to go to uni to be honest
Currently lcf is spread across London so next year community will be much easier
Wide diversity of people and some tutors are very nice
UAL is a good university. I have enjoyed my time here so far. I wish that there was more time to balance my working life outside of uni as it is extremely difficult to have uji 4-5 days a week, go to work, do my uni work, etc
Love the teachers and the work environments provided as well as the atmosphere
Experience overall good, loads could be improved but I guess that’s what the new building is for but I would have graduated by 5en
Great uni, I’ve learned a lot.
i’m at wimbledon and it’s calm
The school provides a lot of facilities and equipment for students to use, which I really like. There are also many free workshops for students to develop their skills. The teachers and staff are very friendly and willing to help you with your problems.
Good university, good staff and good facilities
i like my couse but my classmates are not inspired enough, also wimbledon is really far:(
i love UAL sooooooooooooooooooooo much
Great uni for studying anything in the arts. Facilities are amazing and each have specialised staff you can ask guidance for. Only thing I have to complain about is the lack of diversity in the teaching body and that discussions outside the 'norm' I.e. White perspectives are difficult for the staff to wrap their heads around. Would like to connect with my tutors but often times they only really connect with the other white students.
The great citadel of learning!
Central St Martins is the perfect and Brilliant Uni
Lots of social opportunities offered to students
A good place to learn art courses. mass freedom in the courses.
nice place perfect great facilities
I'm havig my second year as BA student, overall experience has been good.
Camberwell is so different from other campuses that students pay the same tuition fees as other campuses.
LCF campuses are not good enough. Teachers are good but there is no support for mental health issues.
Good learning experience overall. UAL has its problems but I am quite happy at Camberwell college.
Career guidance is not enough.It may be that the salary is not enough to cause many tutors to leave their jobs. My friend of another major can't find a qualified professional tutor.
One of the best art universities in the world
Campus is nice! People are nice!
Good place to studt fine art. Very good facilities and tutors and also students.
good, UAL is trying to give students best service, tutors are friendly, environment is nice, facility is good... etc
Nice facility, tutors and courses
Good uni, bit unorganised and confusing at times.
Quite good so far~~~~~ I quite enjoy here, it’s close to my uni
Good lectures, and content however could have more contact hours and better extracurricular and social opportunities.
Carefully check the course you're applying to. Some of the courses just exist with no clue of what they're going to teach you, but want you to pay lots of money for that. Facilities are good though. Nice place to try printing techniques, nice library and work spaces.
Great campus some tutors are nice
It's fantastic to study at UAL as you can make lots of friends here. The tutors are very nice to students and you can learn many new ideas from them. I also love to join the on-campus and off-campus workshop activities.
Very nice university. Tutors are very helpful
Workshop sometimes not enough, everything else went ok
In Archway campus for foundation, cold and old building facilities are ok but not great teachers are amazing people are cool but not much to do outside of workshops, no clubs/societies everything is in kings cross campus
Love the uni. But 9 hours of face to face teaching a week is absolutely unacceptable and robbery to paying students. Facilities amazing. Teaching structures and staff ladder - much to be desired
UAL handled as best as possible the pandemic situation. The online education was well planned and I managed to learn a lot even if I was situated in another country. It offers all kinds of workshops and technicians that enabled me explore my course and my preferences and to expand my knowledge, my thinking, my working process. One can find anything as long as they search, UAL offers it all. The international experience is totally amazing, and allows us to create bonds between many cultures, nationalities and languages.
I have had a fantastic first year at Wimbledon College. The facilities and teaching have been great and the teacher have gone above and beyond to support us through the pandemic. Bring on year 2!
Hope we can get back to campus and meet classmates soon. It's sad that we paid £22920 for only online classes.
Good university, not the best with administration
The university has consistently bent over backwards to treat me like I don’t exist.
very good nice brilliant beneficial
I am a first year student at UAL London college of fashion I’m studying fashion management. My overall experience has been really great the staff is super supportive and helpful. Also I haven’t been able to attend face to face classes due to pandemic there online classes are very well organised and we’ll scheduled.
Ual is a great school that will help you foster your creativity and passion for whatever discipline you wish to go into.
Since we're in a pandemic, I didn't get the chance to get to know the Uni that much and I have only gone to uni a few times. Hopefully next year I can have a stronger opinion
I think the school is great! However, due to the epidemic caused a lot of inconvenience, many school facilities were not available.
London metropolitan Been living here for two years. Great value for money. Very spacious rooms. Polite staff. Great location as well. Many grocery stores around, three parks, three public transport stations. Totally worth it.
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The campus location is great and has professional facilities.
Great university with great staff to help you further and develop your understanding of your chosen course.
Lovely place, the teacher here are all patient and nice
Very good, the online class experience is very good, the teachers are very friendly, and reply emails quickly
Can't tell much because I haven't had many possibilities to go to college so far. The teachers are super good, the programme is amazing and we have a lot of equipment we can book for projects, which is very useful and money saver
I am very happy to have the opportunity to study in UAL. The teachers and students are very friendly.
It's a really great place to live in! Great facilities and welcoming staff. And is very close to the Stockwell station.
Many creative options and freedom
I have not entered the campus due to the epidemic。
LOVE IT HERE! i just wish covid hadn't disrupted my studies
Good Uni, friendly environment.
LAMDA is a world-class drama training institution.
No careers help talking from a MA's. No help from the tutors. Head tutor, and other tutors, never answered to any emails after the exhibition. Never.
I studied at Chelsea College of Arts, the location is beautiful as well as the campus, the faculty is a pro and very knowledgable.
Good learning space, although location is quite scary
The uni is generally good, apart from most of the time you won't actually be doing anything about your course and your teachers won't have a clue on what to do. This is my second year and it's February at the moment and I haven't done anything on my actual subject this year as it starts in April. Wait so I'm in for a whole year but my course is only 2 months long and instead I'm doing random other subjects to make the uni look good? Not worth 10,000.
BA Illustration at UAL’s Camberwell campus has been a huge disappointment. We pay the same fee as other uni students, yet we literally do not have classes, and there have been multiple weeks (not breaks) where we didn’t have any lectures or things to do, thus they are essentially NOT TEACHING us anything! I haven’t acquired any new knowledge from attending this course. The whole course feels like a huge scam, and the atmosphere is extremely unprofessional and chaotic. We do not have access to any of the printing or other facilities on our own and what they call our ‘studio’ is so small and uncomfortable and with no storage space (!) that one cannot work there. I DO NOT RECOMMEND THIS COURSE OR UAL IN GENERAL TO ANYONE.
if you looking for a place to study like competitive, and if you want to be anxious so go to CSM.
It's been a good University in general especially in regards to the creative push and opportunities.
I have had a fab time at ual, the only disappointing thing is the lack of a union bar at the Chelsea campus
London college of communication is a vibrant and a very friend university to be in with very nice staff and teachers! The areas are improving slowly and the facilities are pretty good!
I studied at Cordwainers at London College of Fashion before the campus moved. I don't think the Footwear course is value for money and having been out in industry I don't think they teach you anything like the level of design skill and construction knowledge to justify the fees (and it was cheaper then). This course will prepare you to work in a fast-fashion retailer or high-end fashion brand if you're lucky and do lot's of interning off your own back. I wish I had done a more generalised product design degree as I think the design education is much more rigorous. It's not like they teach you anything about fashion history or context anyway. Do a product design course and do a footwear short course if you think you want to go into footwear, at least then you give yourself options. I also had a hard time with some of the admin staff when my shoe was featured in an industry project and the partner lost the shoe, they were completely rude to me and the whole thing was handled badly
Pretty good libraries and a good variety of clubs. A lot of hypocrisy in terms of sustainability however, when the university wants to destroy a shopping center to build a new campus when the one they have clearly still functions.
I am really enjoying my university as well.
menswear at lcf is a joke to begin with in the first year. Since September we have barley done anything. You would think that on a design class you would get taught about design. Instead they expect you to come in for a 9:30 till 17:30 session where you are basically left on your own until a tutor comes round and basically doesn't tell you that much and the talk lasts 20 mins at the most. If you are going on this design course and expect to get taught design you are wrong. Instead they are pushing for a artistic approach which is just boring and doesn't have that much to do with design.
The only good thing about it was the student's union.
My project was said to be too difficult to understand while the exhibition had a student who put a video of GTA 5 with a voice-over, that was considered art. Be aware this is not a facility to think different and explore ideas in because the tutors will not understand it.
Went to LCC for both Foundation and Graphic Design (so 4 years in total). Can not believe that this university is ranked 2nd in the world this year for art and design! The teachers barely knew us as the class sizes were too overcrowded so there was little support and most of us felt anonymous. I guess it has good (overrated) reputation in the industry but I personally had such little career support at the uni, so I'm lucky if I can even get into the industry without vital networking and skill building. The grading requirement system is very poor as I know students that clearly cheated for their projects and it was not flagged up (they still passed).
Wimbledon is falling apart. There are holes in the ceiling. Daylight can be seen through holes in the plaster in the canteen. Awkward to get to from central London. Nothing particularly interesting in the local area.
Its overall been an amazing experience
Definitely needs better WIFI and more realistic approach to help international students
I'm having a great time. Great tutors, fun city and lots of work placement opportunities.
Lime grove is confusing and rooms are literally always booked when you need it. They don’t have much equipment so it’s hard to go there to do projects the cafeteria is extremely expensive for not that great of food. the food is usually cold especially jacket potatoes that they don’t even serve with cheese just lettuce. With the internet, you can only sign up one device which is useless when you have possibly a laptop and a phone or ipad.
There are societies you can join, with all 6 colleges, however non of them are really serious about the subject of the society; so many people disappear from just one or two attendance of activities
It is a massive uni, but not campus uni---you needs to be super motivated to find your own opportunities--otherwise school itself is only good because of its reputation and the location.
Love it here, taking another course
Good courses for artistic people
Great studio facilities and access to equipment. Lovely canteen with good quality food. TERRIBLE toilets and classrooms. Bad building design but it's going to be rebuilt in the next few years so later students will benefit from this.
This uni is a joke. I can't wait to leave it. There are two goods tutors on my course, others are a complete joke. Course requirements are usually very unclear, marking system is really confusing. Lectures are a total joke, they expect you to do everything on your own, no supervision whatsoever. Avoid by all means.
its the best art uni so I'm here. canteen really isn't then best and the food, don't like it. good materials never seen careers
Briefly.. I am from Amman, Jordan. When I decided to apply for the UAL, they welcomed and treated me in a good way with quick responses to my e-mail and I applied and I paid the tuition for a short course for the summer course of 2017, they sent me the confirmation. After I got the confirmation and all the papers from the university I applied for the UK embassy to get the Visa but its been rejected TWICE. The UK Embassy told me that they phoned the University to check about the confirmation and that I applied and paid the tuition but the UAL reply was: No, he is not a student at our university. The time passed and I couldn't apply again because the course would start in few days as the Visa takes from 2 to 3 weeks to be done. Anyways, I sent the UAL an email to get a refund because of the rejected Visas and to get my money back, their emails responses were so slow and they rejected to refund me as I sent them all the papers and the proofs that I applied TWICE.
great Uni and very friendly people
Didn't enjoy my time here and ended up withdrawing. It was a while back now, went to Wimbledon, apart from being on the wrong course, it was poorly structured, teachers were never in and nobody hardly turned up, snobby lazy, environment. Only got thing was admin support staff and the ual society. Worst time ever
The worst thing about my uni is how little information is really easily accessible. I am second year and have no idea how to access any support or facilities despite this last year. When I ask people, everyone seems very unorganised and unprofessional. Good university status but honestly, I feel I get taught to a far less extent to most other unis.
I go to Chelsea and love love love it here. All of my other UAL friends that go to other uni's and visited have commented on how lovely the whole place is. It's so homey and comfortable and welcoming in a lot of ways. It being next to the Tate and a 20 minute walk from southbank is also a massive +. UAL as an entity is good also; the scale of it means that it's got really good facilities between all the campuses. using CSM library is a dream!
Help us to improve our ideas and give us many examples of our work it's very nice and give me many information about our jobs
I'm in the holborn campus therefore campus life is abit mudane
brilliant, modern building with just about all the facilities you could ask for. Lots of energy and creativity and there's always something going on. The university feels quite pretentious.