University of Essex in general

I visited Essex last month and was so impressed by the environment of the campus and the friendly students there. Although it is not a very top university, I think both staff and students are putting continuous effort in making it a more reputable one providing a more inducive learning atmosphere. Some departments receive very high ratings while a few may still have a long way to go.
As I stayed in a nearby B&B, the hosts and the guests had a very high regard of the university and said that it has made significant progress in recent years. I plan to recommend this university to my friends.

This review will focus mainly on the Colchester campus. The main campus of the University of Essex is situated in Wivenhoe Park, close to Colchester. There are two further campuses, in Loughton and Southend-on-Sea. There is a further campus in Ipswich, Suffolk, which is a joint venture with the University of East Anglia. I have been a student at the Colchester campus in Essex for a year. As far as I am concerned, it is a perfectly good university, although I don't have much scope to compare (this is the only university I have attended). The main complaint that I have about the campus itself is that it is fairly old fashioned, and the concrete ...  Read the complete review

The University of Essex is fairly small with around 7000 students. About 5000 of these are undergraduates and the remaining 2000 are postgraduates. The university is set in Wivenhoe Park, a beautiful 200 acre country park situated on the outskirts of Colchester. The university was built in the 1960s at roughly the same time as Warwick, York and the UEA. Its concrete buildings are not particularly attractive aesthetically, but the construction of more modern buildings in recent years has given the campus a more contemporary feel. The most recent of these is a new centre homing the departments of history, psychology and accounting. Academically the ...  Read the complete review