Roehampton University is based in South West London, surrounded by Putney, Richmond and Wimbledon…read more To be fair, Roehampton is a total dump there's no getting past it, but the surrounding area makes it worthwhile. What I love about the location is the fact that it's a London University, it's in zone 3 and if you want to get into central you just have to hop onto a bus or tube and you're there quickly. However, you're just enough out of the hustle and bustle with places like Richmond Park on your doorstep. The university itself has a great campus. Froebel is the gem with its beautiful manor house and lake and is the base for teacher training and education, Whitelands is the sports college and Digby Stuart and Southlands are for those who study humanities. Though I do English Language and Linguistics I chose to be a Froebel student. There's something about the atmosphere at Froebel that you don't get anywhere else- everyone knows each other and it feels like one big family! The nightlife is great with something happening every day of the week whether it's a big themed night out at Fez Club or the Bop or just a quiz at one of the bars. Sports teams play a big part of life with men and women's football and rugby, tennis, rowing, lacrosse and ultimate frizbee to name but a few! I'd definitely recommend getting involved because you've got 20 friends instantly! If you're in the process of choosing a university give it a look- you get the fun of London and the beauty of Surrey all tied up in one neat little package.

There are a few problems with this university. ESPECIALLY if you are an international student…read more Roehampton is absolutely horrendous at making a schedule in a timely enough manner that you don't have to pay a fortune to get a flight home for breaks or end up having to change your flight which costs a pretty penny. For a uni with a lot of international students you would think they would be more considerate. They always release the year schedule about only 2 months before you actually have to be there and getting a plane ticket in that time frame is horrible. Also, along with that they take their sweet time releasing exam time tables. A week into break and we just got told when our exam would be even though they knew which classes were given an exam last spring and had an actual copy of the exam at the start of term. And the final thing is (at least for the history program) every staff member has a different way of the way you should do assignments. I have written 3 critical commentaries just this term. 2 for one teacher one for another. I wrote all three in the same style, I got a first and a 2:1 from one teacher and the other teacher completely failed me. Since staff don't have the same expectations, every assignment is you trying to figure out what they are wanting and has to be trial and error. Along with that they have no problem giving you one week to do 2 major assignments (one was a 2500 word essay) and 3 minor assignments. The positives of the uni is it's nicely located to travel all over London easy if they are not doing construction and the campus is very pretty. The night life and activities they put on are a lot of fun, just the academics need a lot of work.

I am only giving this place 1 star because I do not have the option to give none. Twice now they…read morehave cancelled my German course however this time they didn't even bother to tell me or the 3 other people who turned up until after we waisted 20 minutes of our lives sitting waiting for a teacher who didn't turn up. This is a joke of an establishment who should not be allowed to call themselves a college. Based on the numbers I saw attending classes I can only assume that they are suffering financially and I pray to God I am right because their bankruptcy would be a blessing to the accedemic community. If you see their offer on group on then avoid it like the plague because you may as well flush your money down the toilet. If I had to sum them up in one word it would have to be "useless"

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Studied at Stanfords College UK on a number of their specialist courses, also sent friends there to…read moredo the same. Good company, very highly qualified lecturers. Would recommend it Mike