A proper Campus Uni (University of Birmingham in general)

Member Name: Squiddly450

Product:	University of Birmingham in general
Date:	25/01/09 (51 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Good halls and Academically spot on

Disadvantages: None Really!

I spent six years at Birmingham, the first two and a half years "on campus" and the rest at the Dental Hospital in town.

The campus is lovely, if you were that way inclined, you would never need to leave it. The buildings, greenery etc make you feel like you are at a proper Uni.

The sports facilities are very good (although the staff are a bit sour) and there is plenty to do with societies and clubs etc.

Being a country girl, I was worried about moving to Brum, however, it is now my favourite city. You can do ANYTHING there, and the Lickey Hills and Malvern are less than an hour away if you want some countryside.

Broad Street is becoming a little dissappointing now and I would recommend becoming a little more creative with your plans than the traditional "pub crawl" down there.

The restaurants in Brimngham are amazing, you can truly eat anything you can think of. The shopping is ace ad you can buy any type of niche clothing, games, books, artefacts etc that you can think of.

Train links are brill to everywhere, the airport is 20min away by train, the NEC and NIA are on your doorstep and for multiculturalism it is unrivalled.

Back to the Uni, I felt immersed in student life whilst I was there, the halls were good (I lived in catered and self catered) and almost all in walking distance from the campus.

Academically it is a good 'un, compard to other Uni's with decent numbers of state school students, it holds its own.

Compared to Aston, which is in town, it is fabulous. Aston feels like a 70's industrial estate and just doesn't have the campus feel that Birmingham does.

Summary: If you want the proper student life, Birmingham is a good place to start