Craiglockhart campus is a modern University. The building itself is open plan providing different…read morestudy areas. It encompasses a very popular Starbucks which is always very busy particularly between lectures. I have found the staff to always be helpful and supportive. There is an open-door policy so one can get help and advice at any time. The computer facilities become full during the day and it is sometimes hard to find a computer particularly when one really needs one. There is ample parking but this is regulated by the University. As a result one must pay £48 to park in the car park. This pushes students out into neighbouring streets which I dont believe is favoured by local residents. I would recommend Napier Craiglockhart to anyone. This building is mainly for management, accountancy and law with other subjects being taught at other campuses. There is plenty of transport from the city centre as there is a bus which comes on campus. The staff offer real support making an enjoyable learning experience.

The Kilby Centre is a great big 500 seat computer centre, attached to Napier University, and is…read moreopen 24 hours a day. This place is great for those students that have left assignments to the last minute, and find themselves having to pull an all nighter before hand in. There are tons of seats, so visitors have their choice of where to sit, without being cramped sitting next to other users that are blasting awful music from their headphones. The Kilby is a Napier institution, where students can come to mess around on social networking sites, or instead choose to do the much put off work that they should be doing. Open night and day and an absolute life saver, keep an eye out for the webcam though!

What a place: the JKCC is huge, housing around 500 computers and surviving on a diet of late nights…read moreand food from the nearby Tesco. This is where Edinburgh Napier students come to knuckle down and hammer out thousands of pieces of coursework, slogging it out in a strange world that feels almost subterranean. Why only three stars, despite the many works of academic genius that have been created here? Because I don't really want to encourage people to spend more time here than is really necessary. You could lose whole days among these computers and I'm sure people do: groups of students tag-teaming through the night as they take it in turns to head out into nocturnal Morningside, dragging some fresh roadkill through the automatic doors to feed to the rest of the pack. Take what you need from the Jack Kilby, but make sure you have a clean line of sight to the exit at all times.

Picturesque building in a great location overlooking princes street, the courtyard although small…read moreand quite busy with tourists, holds a statue of John Knox. You need ID to access the library but if you wait around for someone to come in or out you might be lucky and once inside you will be greeted by beautiful stained glass windows. It's unclear though where visitors are allowed to roam so some info on this would be helpful.

As well as being a stunning building to admire from the outside, New College is an excellent venue…read morefor hosting events as well. It stands on top of The Mound and so has an imposing look, visible from Princes Street and beyond. Like Edinburgh itself, which has old and new towns, the university has Old College and New College. Also like the city, both old and new are quite old indeed. The building dates from 1846 and houses the School of Divinity at the University. However, there are also rooms that can be rented out for events, and that's what brought me here. Our ball happened in Rainy Hall, a stunning hall, with crests and coats of arms all around. Walking in through the main gate of the college brings one to the very Hogwarts-like quadrangle, which makes for some great photo ops. Once inside the building, all of the interior architecture also captures one's attention. However, I am far from an expert on this, so that's quite enough comments about architecture! Rainy Hall is an intimate venue for events. It comfortably accommodated our ~60 attendees, but much more than this and ceilidh dancing would become somewhat difficult. Catering and bar service are provided by the University's own Edinburgh First, with friendly, efficient staff, and a good selection of drinks at the bar. The food quality is very good, though portion sizes leave a lot to be desired. My recommendation to visit New College is twofold. As a tourist, the astoundingly beautiful building makes for excellent photographs. On top of this, for reasonably small events of up to 70 people, the Rainy Hall is an excellent venue to consider.

My friend gave me a guided tour and all I can say about this University is I really wished I had…read moregone here (and could afford it). It's so amazing, and pretty, and people are friendly, and they have all these cool events advertised (like a cheese party!!!). Teviot row house is also the oldest student union building in the world (My friend told me) and it looks great! they have a sports bar, library bar, and other various bars for different functions and settings.

Home to some of the ugliest buildings on earth (can I get a round of applause for Appleton Tower's…read moresheer foulness please?) the University of Edinburgh was the place of my 'further education'. Superficially the Uni does well in the league tables (23rd in the world I think) but the real student experience is pretty patchy. The main library is probably the best example of this. Spanning over six floors this building houses millions of books and resources but for some reason there never seemed to be any of the ones I wanted! At the beginning of every year at least one of my courses was complaining that their books hadn't been put on short loan and that keen students had already checked out the course work for the year. There was also a constant issue of people hogging computers, leaving their books and coats on the table and then heading off to Bristo Square for a leisurely lunch. Annoying! Nonetheless I did enjoy my studies at Edinburgh a lot. The uni attracts some brilliant lecturers especially in the History and Politics departments (my degree). Dr Day, Dr Cogliano and Dr Bates were my favourite historians although I would have to say that the international relations and politics of human rights courses were very impressive. In recent years the University has come out quite badly in 'student satisfaction' surveys primarily because of the time it took to get coursework marked and returned. As I left I could see that there were real efforts being made to reverse these patterns but as far as most of us were concerned it was a bit too little too late. Despite this I would still say that Edinburgh is a great University and I miss it a lot!

Old college is part of the University of Edinburgh so I tend to come here often due to lectured and…read moreadministrative stuff. However, this I place I think is one of Edinburgh iconic buildings and a "must see" by visitors. The square has various decorations during the time of year or the festivities. For example during Christmas they had A huge Christmas tree while on Chinese New Years they had replicas of statues of the terracotta soldiers. If anything, this is a great spot to take that selfie or pic to capture the beauty of the buildings that can be found in Edinburgh. It's also free entrance so why not take advantage of the beautiful backdrop?! What's also nice is after taking 5-10 min to come here (not much to see really), you can head to the national museum. If you're a student at the University of Edinburgh this place is where you can find big lecture halls and the important registrar office.

Some years ago, when I was considering becoming a student at the University of Edinburgh, I…read moreremember being dazzled in the prospectus by glossy photographs of magnificent quadrangles, ancient libraries, and walkways adjoined by rows of impressive granite columns. "It really is the Athens of the north," I thought, and promptly completed my application. Little did I know that I would spend most of my university career on the 12th floor of a concrete tower block on the corner of George Square, holed up in the 1960s architectural travesty that is the main library, or frantically typing essays in an underground computer lab commonly known as 'the bunker.' However, those enticing images in the university brochure were not complete fabrication - such elegant structures do exist in the university's extensive property holdings, and Old College is one of the most impressive. Dating from the 18th century, it is built on a grander scale than its spin-off, New College, with a conspicuous dome, arched facades and balustrades built around a wide open courtyard, all very imposing in Edinburgh's trademark grey stone. Today, only a privileged few law students actually get to come and have classes here. But I often make excuses to walk through Old College, just to briefly admire the sweeping scale of the place and delude myself that being a student at Edinburgh really does involve inhabiting such majestic environs on a daily basis.

I'm a part-time PhD student at Moray House and have had a good experience thus far. My supervisors…read moreare excellent, the library is convenient, the buildings are good, and they're currently doing build building works to convert the parking lot in the centre of the 'campus' to be a lovely garden. There could be a better sense of community facilitated by the staff, but I think things are generally pretty good and improving compared to the last reviewer's remarks.

I'd heard of Moray House School of Education way before I ever approached it: through people I knew…read morewho studied there or had offices there; and through the Edinburgh University Library's catalogue that kept trying to send me there to pick up books (which is just unnecessarily out of the way, really). So, the Moray House School of Education is, duh, the School of Education. It's located right next to Paterson's Land and the building where the Bongo Club, aka between Holyrood and Canongate.

Many moons ago in my last year at school I decided to go to Herriot Watt's Open Day, I guess this…read morewas for two reasons; 1) The first being that they have a really good language department that offers a degree in translation and interpreting and they pride themselves in being the only University in the UK to offer this degree. 2) Perhaps the most important reason... I probably just wanted a day off school. To get to the Edinburgh Campus you need to take a bus from the centre of Edinburgh which takes 30-45 minutes. The campus is in the middle of nowhere and to get a taxi after a night out it takes around 20 minutes and costs about £20. As there's no rail link the choice is pretty limited so a night out would never be cheap or straightforward but I guess if you're sharing the taxi fare with a few other people it's not so bad. When I went to the Open Day I went with a couple of friends from my school who both eventually decided to go to Herriot Watt while I decided to go to Glasgow Uni. Funnily enough, they have both since left Herriot and reapplied for different Uni's both having a negative experience with their courses and the social side of life in a Uni that's pretty isolated. Had I gone to Herriot Watt I would have had a completely different experience of Uni life, I would have moved out and experienced the whole University package of living in halls, writing my initials on eggs, marking the milk with a marker pen so I could tell if someone else had drank out of it and of course fighting over who's block of mouldy cheese was stinking out the fridge. Okay... so maybe I don't miss that aspect of university life but I do regret not getting more involved with the social side of uni having not lived in halls and as a result am probably the least "studenty" student ever.

I didn't actually attend Heriot Watt, but visited my pals who went there on many an occasion. This…read morereview is thus not about the teaching or courses (which I'm sure are good enough), but about the fairly unique atmosphere it has. It's location out in the sticks just outside Edinburgh means it's often overlooked by those more concerned with clubbing than studying, but the self-contaned campus feel that results from this is actually probably my favourite thing about it. I attended both the pretentious Glasgow Uni, and the businesslike, socially lacking Strathclyde, so seeing a campus with a community feel where everyone knew everyone else, was a breath of freash air on my visits. There's some cracking 70s architecture as well, and if you say it fast it sounds like "hairy twat".

I could either be really harsh, or really nice about QMU depending on what kind of day I am having…read morewith the university. As a student at this university for the last three years I have developed my fair share of opinions. I am fully aware most people like to turn their nose up at QMU and don't class it as a "real" university. Heck half the students still mock it. I am under no illusions about QMU and am well aware that it doesn't take a genius to get into this university. That being said, it is actually a decent university. In some ways. The Halls are great. Flats of up to six bedrooms which are all en suite and have huge kitchens. All you need for causing all sort of trouble. As the uni is located on the edge of Musselburgh, this means there is very little to do so while living in halls you have to find your own entertainment. For me that included the purchase of mini scooters, a sledge and space hopper. The union is a tiny little building with one bar. Sells decent enough food, but is nowhere near the same level as other University unions (Edinburgh, Glasgow, Dundee). I am an events management student so I can't comment on the social sciences or nursing courses. I spend hardly any time in class, and when I do it is usually business modules. Great for people who are lazy and like to spend most of their time in bed. The events part of the course is the better part. The events lecturers are some of the better in the university and as the university is so small it allows you to develop a relationship with your lecturer (not that kind). It also means emails are replied to quickly and arranging meetings is a painless experience. The events classes are probably the hardest, and no before you ask event management is not planning T in the Park. Well planning T in the Park does involve event management, but this course is so much more than that. The business modules are usually pretty bad. Generally thrown together at the last minute and with no clear direction, it gets to assessment time and my classmates Facebook status's are filled with panic. The lecturers can be okay, but there are some who make no secret of their dislike for the university. If you are thinking of becoming a student at QMU do your research. Figure out how good it is for your course and phone up the uni and talk to the lecturers. In some ways QMU is good, in some ways it is not. It has a new principle so I am hopeful that the university will improve and deal with the issues it has. The fact that it is such a small uni is a good thing, as is the modern campus.

I have two children at this school and I cant recommend it highly enough. Both children have had…read morevery positive experiences there. Their art and music departments are particularly good. At their Spring concert last night and the talent of the children musically is mind boggling. Completely amazing. Teachers are very helpful with any problems parents /children may encounter