It's only right that I review the place where I've spent 3/4 of my life over the past three years!…read moreThe university's campus is seriously indescribable. It's beautiful with an abundance of wildlife on campus. (Hello rabbits! Lots of them.) The loch is huge and great for talking a walk around. The campus even has its own castle within which the university's law department is based. - Airthrey Castle is worth taking a wander to see and is alongside Airthrey golf course if you're partial to a putt! In my two years living on campus, I was so impressed. The university is acclaimed for its sports department and the gym and swimming pool are just a short walk from the residences and main buildings. These are both very well-maintained and offer great value. There is also the Macrobert Arts Centre which is essentially a cinema and theatre with a bar and restaurant. I've seen so many films in Macrobert centre, seen some great productions and my band even played a gig there. Whilst all these things are great, the thing that I take away most from Stirling, and that I hear from so many other students, is the excellence of the support system for students. The Career Development Centre offers advice from the moment you leave until you retire and the university takes great interest in the university alumni. I myself called graduates one year on to guage graduate employment rates and have participated in another campaign to reach out to parents of new students and collate feedback on the university. There is also a great councilling and money advice service on campus. In my final year of study, I know that I am in safe hands. - If I need help, it is there and I need not be ashamed to ask for it. I couldn't imagine a better place to have met my boyfriend and my band! Stirling University will always make me feel all warm and fuzzy inside.

Well, I am biased. I spent five years studying here and two years living right on campus. However,…read morethis means I have a pretty expansive knowledge of the campus so I will try to be as even handed as possible. It's beautiful. It has a castle, a loch, a golf course, trees, trees, trees. The residence buildings are very sixties architecture which doesn't so much do the beautiful setting justice. However, the University is currently rebuilding and renovating the residence buildings and they're all shiny, new and modern. There's a cinema on campus and a theatre in the form of the MacRobert Centre. I've seen movies in the place, had a coffee fuelled history seminar in the cafe and been to an insane electro rave here. They even put panto on at Christmas. Anyway, I'll always have a soft spot in my heart for this place!

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.

Such a nice university! I walked around the small campus and got to see some of the areas where…read morestudents like to lay on the grass and relax. There's such a fun tradition here where once they have finished writing their last exam ever, their friends will throw water balloons at them! Some filled with glitter sometimes.

The University of St Andrews is the oldest University in Scotland and one of the oldest in the UK…read more Recently awarded the third best University in the UK according to league tables, St Andrews is becoming ever more prominent for its results and student body. Subjects are quite standard, ranging from a variety of Histories, Sciences and Arts, but it has a limited Medical degree (only stay for three years) and no Law programme. The University lies within the town - so it feels like a student town (the students in fact make up one third of the population). This University prides itself on its research and teaching and what else could you want more than a University set in a historically beautiful location, amongst world leaders teaching your course?

Carnegie College is located at the outskirts of Dunfermline and offers an extensive range of…read morefurther and higher education as well as short courses. This is a large College with good facilities including a refectory for students and a large car park. There's a diverse choice of courses from computing to childcare, from engineering to gas courses, from photography to business, to the new beauty therapy courses. The staff are friendly and approachable and there's an option for everyone no matter what your circumstances. There's also campuses at Cowdenbeath (construction courses) and at Rosyth (engineering courses). Carnegie College was formerly known as Lauder College.

The college moved to it's new building down at the old John Brown's shipyard in 2007. It's a…read morebeautiful modern building, with great facilities. My favorite thing about the college though, is the stunning views of the River Clyde. The college is easily accessible by all modes of public transport. Parking is limited though.

Very nice modern college probably the nicest of the 3 branches of west college Scotland next to the…read moreClyde and the titan crane with a view of the airport ,inchinnan and Paisley and even a view down the Clyde of dalmuir and the erskine bridge and the hospital.The college has loads of great subjects to choose from and a wide range of staff but the amount of neds is unreal from Clydebank -Drumchapel but there's also a lot from further a

I attended Motherwell College when it was on it's old campus, behind Fir Park school. Now, it has…read morebeen given a serious facelift and moved location to the new Ravenscraig Industrial area, which is currently under development, meaning that the college stands alone amongst the vast empty land around it! The building itself is incredibly modern and chic, all glass, so you can see the stairwells and lift shafts which gives it a really modern feel. It is massive and so the intake at this new campus must be at least 1 and a half times bigger than it used to be. I did Indian Head massage class here, which was a night class. I got funded by ILA Scotland, and paid the excesses myself. It was brilliant. I made loads of new pals and learnt a new skill. The teacher was fantastic too. It really is worth checking the website out if you want to do something like that. They also have an excellent drama and performing arts department, and pride themselves in catering for disabled students better than any other college or Uni in the area.

Very professional and very skilled staff. I was really amazed at how enthusiastic this college…read moreschool in Lanarkshire. I learned so much in just shorter period of time in the course that I took. The learning environment is fun and dynamic that you will really enjoy, plus you'll meet friendly and amazing people.

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 studied childcare here. Passed with lots of help from the lecturers. They are all amazing, will…read morehelp you out as much as they can. There is a learning resource centre and canteen. The canteen is very expensive for students and the food isn't great. But across the road there is a baynes the bakers and out the back there is a burger van which is dead cheap and good.

A 5 minute walk from the town centre buses to and from regularly good friendly teachers, have a…read moregood It lab with many computers to access, not far from baynes bakery so good for lunch, as the food in the college is limited