Gateway to the Highlands (University of Stirling in general)

Member Name: D.J.Rossco

Product:	University of Stirling in general
Date:	30/06/00 (241 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Great scenery and a pretty good university

Disadvantages: You may find the town a bit to quiet depending on what your used to, and you have a greater chance of killing yourself

Set in the historic and picturesque landscape of Stirling, the University of Stirling well deserves its title of most scenic campus. The sky marble buildings, which I admit aren't the most attractive, surround Loch Airthrey, part of the 17th century estate and castle shadowed by the Wallace memorial which were taken over for the purposes of building the university.
It is a very calming and attractive place to study, the summers are great and its like in the American teen movies were all the students sun bathe and play frisby and all that jazz. But the winters are bitter, if not picturesque, as the sign on the loch bridge tells you, no swimming or ice skating, the whether is fitting for both.
The campus is also teeming with wildlife, ducks, geese and swans of all descriptions roam around, as do hundreds of squirrles, thousands of rabbits, quite a few bats, a couple of hedgehogs, the odd black mink and many types of wild birds.
The university isn't the hardest to get into, but it isn't the easiest, and it is one of the best centres in the country to do film and media, with an amazing staff of semi celebrities, including Simon Frith who writes for Melody Maker, NME and chairs the Mercury Music prize.
You may be dissapointed with Stirling its self if you visit, but it isn't that quiet, the shopping centre is renouned all around Scotland, and it has a healthy night life, the Fubar club is also well renouned in Scotland, although these days it isn't up to such a complement, and if this is to modest for you, then Edinburgh and Glasgow are only couple of quid and half an hour or so away.
The campus itself has excellent sporting facilities, including the Gannochy Tennis Centre which is of Olympic Standard and is one of Scotland's national tennis centres, Stirling is also due to get Scotland's Olympic swimming pool, and the sporting facilities hosted last years Islamic Olympic games and the Sky Sports Snooker championship. r>The MacRobert's arts centre on campus offers a great cinema and theatre, where many large productions stop off and many great films at low prices are shown. The centre also hosts many famous comedians who stop off on their tours and some great workshops too, and lets not forget the great productions by the universities own drama group.
Stirling is a great place to study if you're an out doors sort or a sporty type, or just if you appreciate the peak of Scottish countryside.
I'll leave you with some interesting facts about Stirling university:
It has the most scenic campus
The largest amount of UFO activity
The greatest number of security cameras in Europe (Due to its sporting facilities hosting the Islamic olympic games and the Sky Sports Snooker championship)
Britain's safest campus
The greatest number of suicides
In 1997 it was deemed to have Scotland's ugliest students.