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University of Salford |
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02/01/08 (982 review reads) |
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Advantages: Close to Manchester city centre with its nightlife
Disadvantages: Socially-deprived violent and depressing locaiility, no social life, no support
I enrolled on the BSc music technology course in 1999. At 18 I was happy and excited to be accepted on this course which was exactly what i was interested in. However it wasn;t long before all my ideals about the excitement of university life promised by my parents, were blown away.
I arrived the weekend before freshers week expecting to find lots of people moving in and a general feeling exicitement. However the whole building (a high rise on Canon street) was deserted. My flat mates were Greek with poor english and the remaining lad was local. We walked out into Salford to find the streets empty and very few students in the student bars. On the way home a group of young people through a rock at us which luckily missed and struck the window of a fish and chip shop next to us. Further such incidents occurred mostly in and around the area of student halls and university.
Over the next few weeks the union gave us very few opportunities to make friends, and at night I heard very little activity or socialising/parties in the halls. I'm pretty sure everyone in those halls were very bored and there was very little by the effort made by the student unions to encourage social interaction. Over the course of the year many people moved in and out of my flat so that there was very little stability. Many of the residents were foreign and they slowly grouped with their own nationalities so there was little cohesion. The lack of social life and depression brought on by the location of the student halls lead to me leaving after one year. Since this time I have been to two other universities gaining my BSc and MSc - I can say in terms of union activity and qaulity of life Salford was by far the worst.
Unless you are a very independent and street-wise person and you can handle living in deprived and violent area with very little support from the university I would recommend moving directly into private housing - this way you can choose a nicer area. There is no social advantage in using student accommodation - you won't meet anyone or have a good time.
Summary: You must be street-wise and very independently-minded to come straight from school to salford
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- 18/01/08 With regard to the quality of the campus, the answer to this lies in with CP's review of the local area. Salford University is reasonably expansive with a mixture of the old and the new. Certainly the older buildings make for intersting viewing, but the newer stuff is just as drab and depressing as the tower blocks that surround campus. Indeed many halls of residence are just old tower blocks which, as is only to be expected, can make for a lonely and depressing existence in an area of extreme poverty and crime.
In terms of facilities on campus...very poor. Of the several restuarants and general relaxing areas all were untidy and as welcoming as Salford in general. I know it is natural to gripe about the quality of a university library, but Salford really was the pits. A drab, dreary building with little natural lighting and comfortable areas for study. The computer room was the equivalent of a battery farm.
The general dreariness of the place became more apparent at the weekend, when the whole area became a ghost town. This is primarily due to the fact that a large proportion of Salford students come from the surrounding areas so (sensibly) have no call to live there. I guess the argument from the powers that be would be that for the proportion of students staying on campus at weekends, Salford have got their entertainment just right...plus there is always Manchester. That's fair enough. But for all those staying on campus that is the time when the quality of life at Salford really hits home. |
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- 02/01/08 As a review of thelack of social oppourtunities this is good but more about the quality of teaching and uni campus/ campus' would be better. Also sad to say it but you were lucky rock throwing is normal in Salford. |
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- 02/01/08 Terrible experience:-( |
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