University of the West of Scotland

Reviews

Anonymous

The University campus is extremely modern. It has recently been built and have everything you could ask for. The library has three floors with lots of study resources there to help you with your course. There are also many career opportunities within my course and we are constantly receiving emails with lots of information.

Anonymous

This review is for the Paisley campus specifically, my experience has been fantastic so far and I’m saying this after finish my first year. The staff is amazing and always very helpful.

Anonymous

The campus itself is nice, lecturers and stuff very very helpful! Loved my course which was Computer Games Development.

Anonymous

I currently attend this university in paisley. With this being a small university it is very easy to get personal help from lectures. More so that other universities. This is possibly its biggest benefit in my eyes.

Anonymous

Campus is small but nice enough. 24 hour access to computer room for engineering students which was massive help. Union is cheap for booze. Overall good experience , made good friends, had a laugh.

Anonymous

The campus is beautiful, with lots of things to do. The cafeteria, although slightly expensive serves amazing food. The staff are friendly and are always looking to help in any way they can. The student union is extremely helpful and if they don't know answers to your questions they will find out for you. Overall the university is an excellent choice and caters to your needs.

Anonymous

This uni is really good if you play sports and are keen on having an interactive course. The society choices aren't great unless you're into sports, many of the sports team have great social nights, are also really good and win quite a bit (especially hockey) and there's great chances to learn a new sport if you want to!! I'm studying business here at UWS and I feel that the course is really interactive and the lecturers don't make it boring and the lectures don't take the typical way of go in, the lecturer is the only one that speaks and reads of the slides. At UWS on the business course the lecturers really know there stuff and they understand it canne boring most of the time so they try hard to make it a bit more engaging for the students. The career service is also really good they send news letters every week for people interested in finding out what new tips and everything there are for job, internship and graduate searches. They also take part at ever fresher fair so they get a chance to talk to students and get a feel for what they should focus on. It is also really easy to use the website for UWS and make appointments with them or just to ask a general question.

Anonymous

The new university of the West of Scotland Lanarkshire campus is well thought out, I love how they are places for students to study peacefully and is an environment where students are motivated to work. I would like if uni start introducing halal food.

Anonymous

Great uni, great lectures! Only wish they would do like a music course other than commercial music in Ayr. It is very far away from me to travel everyday and I can't use the degree to get in to what I wanted to do as a career. A music teaching course would be great!

Anonymous

Since its a new university, I love it! It is well planned out and well fit for the students making it an exciting place to study. I thought I wouldn't get any support, but I am getting really good support.

Anonymous

The facilities available at this university, including the Union were recently improved and its been great for students. The only issue I've had is with the quality of teaching we get.

Anonymous

The University provided good support for those with additional needs. The canteens had a good selection of vegitarian and vegan options. The course was interesting and the lecturers were on hand to help with any questions on the coursework.

Anonymous

I did 3D Animation at UWS and graduated last summer with an honours degree. During my time, I don't actually feel like I learned many new things about 3D from the lecturers there. The vast majority of new things I learned at uni were self taught or taught to me through tutorials on the internet. All that the uni really did was set a brief and give us a deadline. Some of the lecturers were on a power trip while I was there, with some treating students like school children and not as adults. Not all of the lecturers were bad though, there were a couple that really helped me out when I was stuck at certain points and made me feel more confident as an animator overall after having taken their lectures. Overall, this uni provided me with a degree but not with much else. Not any long lasting relationships between students or lecturers or any significant amount of new knowledge on the chosen subject I was studying.

Anonymous

Uws is a great uni. Only being in first year it’s hard to give a full review. But comparing it to what I’ve heard from other unis, we get it easy. Everyone else is in 5 days a week, my course is only in 3. And for our first year we only had assessments and no exams which was good. They are always trying to find space to do lectures in though, and the timetable is usually messed up.

Anonymous

My course is psychology and overall I would say this UWS is a great uni to study, the campus could be better however the staff and learning support makes up for this

Anonymous

My course is psychology, overall I would say this is a good uni to study psychology, you gain indepth knowledge about the subject from day 1. Lecturers are helpful and friendly. The campus is a down fall however, as there is not much of a student night life, however it could be worse, overall this is bareable

Anonymous

Overall I have a had a good experience at UWS. The buildings are always nice and clean, classes are relatively easy to find and the amount of work given is always manageable.

Anonymous

The campus is fairly big and kept clean. Facilities are alright but feel a bit outdated. Student union felt very inaccessible and confusing. No one ever explained where to go to access the student union or the student clubs. Careers services were also pretty inaccessible. It wasnt until 4th year that we were told who to email to get in touch with career services.

Anonymous

Great university with easy transport to and from surrounding areas. Student union is always trying to engage with all students and doing their best to succeed. My course was computing science. The facilities for this such as computers course are more than sufficient.

Anonymous

The campus is attractive but the actual facilities are problematic; the library is outdated, trying to access well being facilities is long winded and at times almost impossible; much of the information could be on the website but isn't. My course was quite sporadic and some of the modules were random and pointless to the course; there wasn't enough choice in what modules were being taken. Though the lecturers were generally quite good, many of them were slow at giving feedback or gave very little at all and a lot of the knowledge they had was outdated and no longer relevant to the actual industry. My experience with uni was a stressful experience because excessive bureaucracy seemed to make everything much harder.

Anonymous

I really enjoy going to UWS as unlikely other universities I feel there are fewer numbers at my university which i personally feel makes it easier to make friendships and perform better in my studies. Going to a lecture wh n there are fewer people makes university feel just like being back at school which is a more natural feel as most students come straight from school to university. Having smaller lectures means you can talk one to one with your lecturer more and feel more confident when answering out or asking questions-this can be daunting in a lecture with 300 people present.

Anonymous

The campus is not the most attractive. The facilities are average. The library is small with not enough seats or computers.

Anonymous

The campus might not be the most modern, but the facilities are great. The library is a good size and has an extensive book collection.

Anonymous

Great University with an informal touch. The classes are taught in a fun and engaging way while still being veryeducational and interesting.

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