Think VERY carefully (University of Northumbria at Newcastle in general)

Member Name: protocol

Product:	University of Northumbria at Newcastle in general
Date:	04/01/08 (619 review reads)
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Advantages: Location, Nightlife

Disadvantages: Everything else

Northumbria University's motto: Great Learning, Great Experience, Great Future

What a load of b0ll0cks!

I am currently a student at Northumbria University but thankfully I won't here for much longer. Northumbria University is only good for one thing if you live in the North East, and that is its location. The courses are very badly run, teaching standards are way below par and the expectations are too high. I you struggle with any module then good look getting the extra help you need from the staff. Once they have your money you may as well be invisible. I have been here for three years so its not just a case of me not settling into University and telling a load of porkies. When I first joined the University, I enrolled onto a course that was being run for the first time. We were promised this and that and nothing materialised. We were told the University had links in place for our placements and yet the truth was they had no links what so ever. The classes are too large for the staff to handle and its really hard to get any sort of one-to-one tuition with them. The lectures themselves are nice people but they teach in a rather lacklustre way. I won't be naming and shaming individual lecturers but I must warn anyone thinking of going there to think very carefully about choosing this University. You'd think with the prices they charge for tuition fee's that the money students pay would go towards helping their education and making their studies more enjoyable but instead the money is spent on a new £99999999999999999999999 building that most students wont even get to use.

Newcastle in general is a nice place, and if you enjoy a good nightlife then this University may be for you. However, if you want to graduate with a respectable degree from a respectable University that teaches well then I suggest you look elsewhere.

Summary: If all you to do for 3-4 years is to party then come here else avoid