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University of Salford |
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29/01/01 (1858 review reads) |
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Advantages: If you like getting into fights....
Disadvantages: Violent and dangerous area. Academically inept. Some of the most ignorant people you will ever find go to Salford.
Salford is a city (and should be a town) which has putrefied. Those shinny windows of Salford Quays are the exception and NOT the rule. Suffering from years of chronic neglect, crime and social disobedience, parts of Salford are the Postcode blackspots in the UK. For no good the majority of Salford?s accommodation is also located here. These areas resemble the worst parts of Grozny, with a little more danger. The local?s loath students and muggings, abuse, threats and violence are common place. As a student it is a VERY unsafe place to be.
You will be targeted so be prepared.
Before making any choice, read the brochures carefully. The Spin-Doctors at Salford market the place as a Greater Manchester University, incorporating all the facilities offered to the other students of GM. This is a travesty of huge proportions. Salford is on the peripherals of Manchester and has little or nothing in common with the 3 Universities in central or South Manchester. In fact, you will be suprised how dire the transport links are into Manchester from some of the area's in Salford. Private accommodation is almost impossible to find unless you are prepared to travel for literally miles each day from South Manchester. The student areas of Salford are, if the truth be told, quasi-renovated tower blocks with big steel gates. Good for watching the joy-riders from, bad if you want an ordinary student life. In direct contrast to the housing in South Manchester, which the students of UMIST, Man Uni and Man Met frequent, you will notice the difference. These
The Peel Building is, in essence, Salford?s final bastion of the 'red brick status'. That huge red fortress on the front of every brochure is beautiful, but that?s where the attraction ends. Academically Salford holds little esteem anywhere and particularly in the city of London. An offer of 12 points is low, and trust me, the university will admit many a student below this. I went to
Salford on a whim and I am paying the price big time.
My advice - steer clear of Salford. Academically it will do you no favours and if you want the Manchester life, apply for Manchester. If you can only get 12 points, apply then go to the MET.
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- 19/03/05 Well, firstly, media studies IS actually one of Salford's strongest degrees, with huge intakes and high grades expected. I did a music course, again another hugely competitive compartment at Salford, with an intake requirement of ABB and students going on to great jobs and prospects. Maybe if you got 12 points in your a-levels you should have considered about whether you wanted to go to university in the first place. Don't blame the institution if you haven't got the skills... Like any university, Salford has some fabulous departments, and others that are not so good. As for the violence and desolate nature described, jesus, you must have come from a small enclave in the middle of happy land to be so shocked. It's on the doorstep of Manchester city centre, actually closer to Manchester's centre than some of the actual Manchester universities, and it IS a greater manchester university, meaning Salford students have access to Manchester/UMIST/ManMet facilities, libraries and study rooms... probably not so good for Chris as he had to commute from his Salford hellhole swamp (?) to South Manchester so he could buy a pint... hmm... don't let such a bad review by someone who obviously has a grudge cause he could only get on a shit degree course put you off. If you're doing a strong subject, Salford could be the place for you.
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- 30/10/03 I wrote this many aeons ago and have since obtained a prof qualification to boost my career chances. I still lie to the unsuspecting that I did indeed to go to Manchester. I'm now CIMA qualified and work for Vodafone, but the uni did me nil favourartoes. Towards the end of my study, I noticed that some of the candidates in the lecture hall were unable to actually formulate a sentance they were that stupid.
Perhaps my original synopsis was a little harsh, but I really resented the quality of teaching and environment at my girlfriends University (Sheffield). And still loath the sniggers from some of my red-brick educated peers when I mention the dreaded 'S' as my place of study.
To sum it all up; In my final year (2000) during the student elections for positions such as Student President, Treasury etc, Salford uni was plastered with half-arsed photocopied posters with a picture of some wanker with the slogan: 'Vote Pete for Welfare, cause he is WELL FAIR' or 'Smithy for Treasury because he is in it for the money'. Contrast this with our fellow academics up Oxford Road who were holding live debates as to whether the Student President should call a general strike to protest about human rights violations in XYZ country, or whether the library was stocking enough balanced reading literature.
Salford students cannot spell, drink 14 pints of lager and belive with passion that traffic cones are a really humerous additions to either their own head or their living rooms. You really do not want to be associated with this.
I went to Salford with an offer from Liverpool and Leeds Uni's in the bag. No one pointed it out that Salford was Beirut in the 70's and the University had the ambition to transform itself from a proud red-brick to a low-brow institute. It is now affiliated with Bury Tech. |
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- 16/10/02 What course were you on? Probably somthing like Media studies or some crap like that. My department (where I study) (electrical enineering and accustics) has 95%+ graduate employment rate and a low drop out rate. |
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