University of Salford Reviews

I have read a lot of bad reviews on this website for Salford University, and to be honest they do NOT do it justice. I applied for a lot of the top uni's, but missed the grades, and so opted to attend Salford Uni, and I am so glad I did. I am doing a degree in Biology, and it is everything i could have hoped for. The course is ...  Read the complete review

Golly gosh......It's been such a long time. Main reason is, have started The Post Grad course now for T.V and radio scriptwriting at Salford. Been there for 5 weeks now and I have been very impressed with The course and The University itself. I'm only actually in for one day a week, but as you can guess, with it being an MA, the workload is pretty ...  Read the complete review

As an actual Salfordian who goes to Salford, I agree that the University is cack, as far as my own experiences go. But hearing that the science courses are very good, it's probably my own fault for (stupidly) doing a soft media degree. If you want some adivce, take a proper course, not a stupid one like me.

Salford is a city, by the way, it meets all the criteria (population and er, a cathedral), and it's actually older than Manchester.

If you want the opinion of a man scared of anyone who sounds slightly rough and assumes they're all murderers, and uses the word 'favoureno', then you probably won't like Salford or Manchester or anywhere other than Oxbridge, in which case, you should've tried harder to get into one of those establishments.

I have been to three universities. This is the worst. It is not even a real university experience - it is a community college. Never mind the crime stories (not had any trouble myself... yet), there is nothing going on here. It is a second-rate poly at the end of the day.

Reading some of the previous reviews you would think that Salford University is a terrible place. Well that's simply not true. yes salford is a city and yes there are some parts that aren't particularly desirable. But guess what- you don't have to live there! Salford Uni is very close to manchester city centre (5 mins on bus/train) and ...  Read the complete review

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 ...  Read the complete review

salford is a very dangerous place to say the least. they do not take kindly to strangers as i found out the hard way, the first day i was there. i got verbally abused of about 4 different groups of people in the space of about 6 minutes. i was asked for a cig and got slapped of a girl no older than 13 when i replied no sorry i dont smoke, when i ...  Read the complete review

Well, I've seen a lot of Salford bashing reviews on this page. So here goes: I live in Pendlebury, a part of Salford and have grown up there all my life. If any of you plebs out there who slag everyone off in Salford actually went to some other parts of the city rather than loving on the Uni's doorstep in Broughton, you wouldn't have ...  Read the complete review

I am a student at the University of Salford and I find that a lot of my peers are “ill motivated”. What I mean by this is students just expect to receive a degree qualification at the end of three years and then expect this to guarantee them a high income job, without much effort. As any post graduates well know, this is not the case ...  Read the complete review

Having read the “Moaning” review I feel that I need to share some of my experience: First of all I am a European student who came to England to do a degree in three years, which would have taken me at least six years if I had done it in Germany. Things that impressed me in the Information Systems Institute: 1. The majority ...  Read the complete review

Better off somewhere else - Advantages: Nothing - Disadvantages: Poor Teaching Quality, Poor Quality Staff, Poor use of IT resources

I've just finished my second year at Salford doing a degree in Finance and Accounting and have enjoyed the experience quite a lot. I good good results in my A-levels and got offers from higher ranking universities than Salford, but I still had the university down as my first choice. Salford was recommended to me by teachers at my ...  Read the complete review

I missed my first-choice university by one grade (I needed an A-C-C, I got an A-C-D) and found myself in the clearing system. I knew a few other people from my college who were heading to Salford so I figured if I went there I'd at least know a few people. Bad criteria to base a choice of university on. Very bad. The photos of the ...  Read the complete review

For the love of $deity, don't go! - Advantages: None spring to mind - Disadvantages: Inadequate support for disabled students, Teaching staff don't care, Salford is Chav Central

The reviews here seem pretty dated. I've been at Salford over the last year and my experience is different. I haven't been mugged. You do hear about crime but when it comes down to it, it appears to be exaggerated gossip. I'm having a great time, yes, but you have to be careful as you would in any city in the world, I guess. ...  Read the complete review

After reading some negative reviews about this uni on Dooyoo I have decided to write my own opinion about it. I started the MIT course last month and so far I have found this university to be good. The building where I am based (Telford) looks like a dive on the outside but inside it is very modern and has some good facilities. The teaching ...  Read the complete review

The Information Systems Institute is based in the Ashworth Building on its own in the middle of the Salford University Campus. It used to be called the Information Technology Institute. I graduated from the Institute a good few years now, and with a 2.1 degree in Information Technology you would expect me to be doing quite alright. But ...  Read the complete review

Okay I wrote this mainly because of all the negatives posts of people ranting on about crime, skallies and dirt. Your as much at risk of crime going to any of the central manchester uni's if not more. People just dont go wandering into the backalleys of salford, theres no need. As far as accommodation goes you cant go wrong ...  Read the complete review

The picture here for the university is one that the university would probably choose themselves - it makes the place look nice! Most of the university is based at 'Peel Park Campus' which does have greenery to look at, however, if you want to enjoy it you'll have to ignore the graffiti on anything accessible to the local 12 ...  Read the complete review

I've got to say that I disagree with other people who've been dissing Salford. After studying here for 4 years, I have not had any problems with either scallies or any other sort of criminal activity. The Union run bars are great, housing is cheap and affortable and Manchester is on your doorstep. What is everyone else's problem?? ...  Read the complete review