University of Northumbria at Newcastle

Reviews

Anonymous

I'm doing a foundation course in law which is awful but that's just because of the modules. Most of the lecturers are very helpful and understanding, they try their best. We also have many activities such as I've skating and paid trips to London which despite being poorly organized they were very fun. The university itself has put alot of money into improvments such as library revamps, New subways and cafes, and a new computer science building. They have also listened to our requests and opened the law building 24 hours for assesment periods

Anonymous

Very good campus and library , although often tight for space during the day. Excellent student union and good for sport although, I'll never understand why they don't play football on their karaoke night even when there's big games on. As a sport student I am disappointed at the access to sport facilities at sport central, as I seems we have no access to facilities unless timetabled.

Anonymous

The campus is great espically with the new building for computing being built. Student union is also great along with the sports facilities. It has the latest facility which includes a gym, climbing wall and huge swimming pool.

Anonymous

i really like the sports facilities provided, i used them a lot and are part of one of the sports teams. it is easily accessible from all of campus which means i can use the facilities between lectures and seminars

Anonymous

Very good university, full of things to do as well as awesome facilities in every area.very close to the city centre and very good night life with a lot of options for everyone’s preference. Regarded as one of the top universities in the country and an outstanding business faculity.

Anonymous

I've loved my course throughout the three years but it's waiting on me that it won't leave me with any specific qualifications and it is likely I will have to study more to gain a qualified job role. This wasn't an issue at first. But is now I'm getting the the go so stages of my degree with no real clue as to what my next step will be.

Anonymous

The University has great facilities, that are constantly being updated and you can tell that the University is not afraid to invest. The negatives come in the form of the inconsistency with the teaching. Some lectures/seminar tutors are capable of engaging a class, yet others feel like they have no knowledge of teaching techniques, just the knowledge of the subject and not how to teach it.

Anonymous

Northumbria has everything you need. My lectures are amazing and very supportive to me and my class mates. There's many types of support you need and the staff is helpful to provide.

Anonymous

I’m very happy with my university. I am doing a part time MBA and there are plenty of designated masters students study places. The lecturers are fanstastic and the support provided is very impressive. Any issues are openly discussed and actively solved.

Anonymous

Campus is small and compact which is great if you're running late. Most lecturers are helpful if you go to them. Some lectures are so packed it’s difficult to concentrate.

Anonymous

Northunbria is a great university its engineering faculty is fantastic, as an electrical engineer we have access to systems such as ORCAD (cadence) software which is used by large conpanys over the world this gives northumbria students a boost when looking for post grad employment as we are trained to use applicable softwares already. The student unions a great place to go for a drink or bite to eat (especially for the breakfast when too hungover to cope with 9am lectures!).

Anonymous

Good environment, decent place to study, great lecturer very helpful when I’m in need of help. Cafeteria food could be improve a lot more.

Anonymous

It provides a good environment to study. However if the law practice library could open 24/7 that would be more perfect. This is because city campus library may be a bit far away for some students. Overall I'm proud to be a Northumbrian.

Anonymous

It’s been a good time. I made loads of new friends. Facilities are good and library has loads of good books to help with anything.

Anonymous

Overall the campus is great but communication between faculties needs work. The library usually has seats, cafe on campus is a little pricey but well needed.

Anonymous

I general I am happy that I came to Northumbria to study my masters after an initial plan to do a PGCE fell through last minute. The whole application process was very quick and easy and it was a relief to gain a place on a course that would help me further my knowledge of a field I studied throughout undergrad. Although I would much prefer more module variety and options (there aren't any optional modules for my course) so that I can explore more specific areas in more depth.

Anonymous

Love the university! Campus has plenty to do, the library has just be done up and the union is always busy. Really enjoying my course and the business school is great cause there’s almost always free space to do work.

Anonymous

Lecturers won't record lectures so disabled students or ill students struggle. Food is cheap but cocktails are horrible. Library is good coffees are way too expensive

Anonymous

Northumbria university is great as it offers excellent study facilities, which are modern and updated and have a variety of study spaces. City campus features everything you could ask - gym, shop, subway etc. however, their other campus coach lane (my place of study) is not so great. It's old, run down, with 1 shop that only accepts cash. It needs updating. The plus to that campus is that it's quiet, friendly, and study spaces are ok

Anonymous

The campus at Northumbria is fairly easy to navigate, and a lot of the staff are friendly and welcoming. However, I currently studying the Legal Practice LLM and the teaching is not what I thought it would be. In a few subjects, the teaching has been very good, but in a couple of others it has been difficult to gauge our level of knowledge. In criminal litigation, tne teacher didn't teach a workshop one week, warning us in advance that he wouldn't be there and telling us to do the tasks on our own. Our group emailed him work, as did other students, but we were given no feedback on this so didn't know whether our answers were good. This is unacceptable on a professional course. We also had mock exams in all subjects. In every subject, the exams were available to sit in our own time apart from criminal litigation, which was made available late (while we had other real exams to sit that were a priority). There was then a technical difficulty with the exam and again it was even later that we had access to it. The marking of the exam and mock interviewing in criminal litigation took far too long, and gave us no chance to address our feedback and chat to lecturers. For our mock interviewing, we were told the feedback would be available (2 weeks after other subject feedback had been made available) on the last day we were due to attend university. A lot of people were leaving the city. Instead, it was made available 2 days later, which meant there was no time to talk through why many of us had not passed the interviewing mock competently. I had to teach myself the whole module over Christmas, to the detriment of my other subjects. Furthermore, in my real interviewing exam, I sat in the room it was due to take place, and could hear the lecturer who had cancelled the workshop outside the room, talking to the actors who we would interview. He was telling them how boring it was to mark all the interviewing exams! This was just before I started the exam, and was highly unprofessional, especially for a lecturer who is also a criminal barrister. It was off-putting and other people may have been affected by that comment right before the exam. Through my own effort I passed all my exams, but if I had known how incompetent and unprofessional some of the teaching staff would be, I would certainly not have enrolled at Northumbria.

Anonymous

There are plenty of facilities to suit the needs of different students such as private study rooms and a full facilitated library with every book you could think of. It is an easily accessible university with fantastic features.

Anonymous

The student union at this campus is very helpful and supportive especially when you have a problem. I highly recommend this university because their organisation, careers service, teach and resources is outstanding.

Anonymous

Campus is beautiful and well located with a frat bus link to Coach Lane Campus. Student Union isn't the greatest especially when it's busy, but the sofas are decent. I'd generally like to have a seminar that is actually the length of time it's supposed to be and not 5 minutes long when it's the only thing I've bloody turned up for. Library study rooms are a piss take as well, large monitors are never working and they don't tell you beforehand so you can't do group work cause you spend the session trying to get the bloody computer to work.

Anonymous

The univeristy as a whole is good. Sports science degree is very well put together, good teaching staff and well structured.