University of Sunderland in general

I am currently a student at Sunderland uni, doing psychology at the business school and I would definitely recommend it! The business school itself is LUSH, its got a 24/7 computer centre that has plenty of PC's so you'll never need to wait for one like you do in some of the other campuses although you need to set up a computer account with the informatics centre first (something that isn't done for you for some reason!?!) There is a campus bus service that is free to all students and it tours round the major halls and campuses twice an hour until tea time. There are *two* canteens in the St Peter's campus where I am based and ...  Read the complete review

One of the biggest decisions you’ll have to make when considering what to do once you leave college is whether or not you’ll go to university. The next questions are which courses and which university? I looked at a number of universities in my final year at sixth form and they were all quite close to where I’m from (Middlesbrough). As well as looking at Teeside uni in Middlesbrough I also visited Leeds and Bradford and finally Sunderland. All of them where asking for similar grades to gain entry to the course I was interested in; but in the end I plumped for Sunderland. I chose this university for a couple of reasons really, ...  Read the complete review

....I'd choose a different university. Uni of Sunderland is one of those places that could be fantastic if they made the effort. It's in a great location, has some fantastic purpose built facilities and accomodation, but rather than being brilliant in a couple of areas it's chosen to be average in all of them. Lectures, and even whole modules are frequently cancelled without warning, scheduling and organisation are extremely poor and as for the staff....what can I say? The staff are there but might as well not be. After three years there I still did not manage to get a degree pass because 2 of the compulsory modules of my course were cancelled. Why? ...  Read the complete review