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I love it here at the University of Surrey. I love that there are many bus stops dotted around the campus with buses arriving fairly frequently. The scheme of providing us with free fruit two days a week is very helpful, since buying fruit can taking up a fair amount of our budgets. The various fairs and activities the University arranges are also extremely helpful in finding our what we want to do with our lives and how to go about it.
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Ratings and Reviews
I love it here at the University of Surrey. I love that there are many bus stops dotted around the campus with buses arriving fairly frequently. The scheme of providing us with free fruit two days a week is very helpful, since buying fruit can taking up a fair amount of our budgets. The various fairs and activities the University arranges are also extremely helpful in finding our what we want to do with our lives and how to go about it.
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University of Surrey Reputation
The University of Surrey is located in the town of Guildford in the South East England county of Surrey. 15,575 students are enrolled at the University of Surrey:
- 11,665 of these students come from the UK
- 950 come from EU countries
- And 2,955 are students from non-EU countries.
(Source: HESA 2021/22)
The graduate outcomes for the University of Surrey show that six months after leaving university, 92% of graduates are in work or further study. The typical graduate salary six months after leaving the University of Surrey is £24 - £27K a year.
(Source: HESA Graduate Outcomes Data Survey 2023 for 2020/21 graduates)
Updated: 30th June 2023
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Lovely staff, great place for students
Good campus and amazing people. Would like better professors and teaching.
Amazing as usual. I love the services
great university atmosphere and useful courses that boost your academic life.
very nice campus, the wifi is great.
I love how there are different things to do on campus.
The music department was great!
really good uni. the courses are amazing
The university is modern and clean. Lots of study spaces and a massive library. Surrey Sports Park is great too, with so many facilities.
I hope this review will get information for people who plan to or think about choosing University of Surrey. I find lectures and academic support are great. I have no issue about this. However, parking is another problem. All students have raised the concern that if you live on campus or GU1, GU2, you are not allowed to get your cars on campus. Therefore if you plan to stay and be back with your family during weekend. Being mindful about their rules. I got ill for 3 months last year due to walking under the rain and cold of UK, all I got when emailing transport team is a silence and they ignored me and my health concerns. This issue was raised by my knowledge from 2019. They said university tries to reach net zero goal and physical and mental healths of their students are what they are sacrificing for the goal. I wish they achieve the goal after sacrificing so many like that.
I am so glad to live here and have a good experience
It is amazing. Learning a lot of things and like the culture
Its the best place to live! Best place in the town!!
The Lake is my favorite part of the campus, it is very beautiful and if you need to relax you can just stay there. The social spaces are very nice.
Good university with a beautiful campus
Accomodation is good, public transport available at ease.
Everything is good , staff are friendly
Had an amazing time at Surrey uni. Society and Union involvement has really been the highlight for me. So many supportive staff and students here too.
Lovely uni and offers so many opportunities in the future. Supportive staff as well
It is a great university for many courses
Great place Lovely staff Great facilities Loads of freebies
I love it here at the University of Surrey. I love that there are many bus stops dotted around the campus with buses arriving fairly frequently. The scheme of providing us with free fruit two days a week is very helpful, since buying fruit can taking up a fair amount of our budgets. The various fairs and activities the University arranges are also extremely helpful in finding our what we want to do with our lives and how to go about it.
Tuition fees too expensive, food too bad
Valie for money. The staff are lovely
Best stusent accomodation in Guildford I think!
Perfect school for students, nice environment, friendly staffs
I’ve enjoyed using the amenities
Good facility Best uni in Guildford.
Modern accommodation with helpful staff!
Fab love staying here - staff are great - thank you!
The university's finance department is utterly useless. I am a PhD student and for the last three years I have been raising this concern through all relevant channels, but if anything, they appear to be getting worse. Everyone I speak to at the university knows that the finance department are useless. They have contributed significantly to my level of stress. They have always said that they are understaffed, but the whole finance system needs a major overhaul with the aim of improving transparency. If anyone with the power to influence change is reading this, please raise this to the relevant people.
Love the uni, it’s great, live the area
Happy to be Uni of Surrey student
Great uni with good facilities
Overall having a good experience
It’s alright, nothing out of the ordinary
Their dynamic and new approach to learning makes me want to be as present as possible within each lesson.
Good uni, really nice area to live in
no complaints, all services i interacted with were great
Overall good university to study, but not very helpful in terms of job help
I chose University of Surrey as an international student because of their well known reputation and ranking. I’m very pleased with my choice !
This is a good place for students to live. It is just a few minutes' walk from the train station, surrounded by supermarkets and close to the town centre. The public facilities here are very new and very complete, there are study rooms, communal kitchen, laundry, gym, games room and so on, it is really worth it!
A great place to meet people and get a solid education at the same time
Very good university to study.
I’m not really a part of it as I’m at GSA but from what i know it’s good
The university is good for the course I have taken, the lab facilities are exceptional good for my dissertation work.
I don’t like the log in system for university, to be honest
All good such a good university
I love being at the university of surrey. It is a beautiful campus and provides so many different opportunities for placements! The societies and facilities that are provided are excellent as well!
It’s a good university very supportive
a really great uni with great facilities for everyone
Everyone at the university has been so helpful in terms of the staff, and all my classmates have been nice so far. The course work is challenging which is expected at a good university
Great learning experience, and big campus.
very good university with good professors and stuff
Surrey university is a really good university especially my for my course. All the teachers are really friendly and supportive. The student union too if u have any concerns they are there to help you out
amazing i love it! nothing missing
Perfect university if you're looking for something student-orientated, the care and attention given to student life is top notch on top of the student academic support, great facilities that are being improved constantly, accommodation is good and within reach of tesco, lidl, and city centre by bus or walking. Overall very chill location but only a half and hour train ride from London if you're looking to see new places. Post graduation services seem useful, you get the sense that its a very employable university especially if you do a degree with placement year.
It’s fun, it’s annoying that it’s built on a hill
Great university with a wide range of activities on campus
Avoid at all costs. Extremely mediocre, unfriendly, and xenophobic. Especially avoid the computer science department.
Societies are a hit and miss. Had a terrible experience with the Surf society 21/22 regarding some kind of sexual abuse. It's minor but still, nobody should have to go through that and then be ignored. The committee and president generally only cared for people in their friendship group and didn't bother helping out new surfers despite advertising themselves as welcoming for all levels of experience. I didn't learn a thing nor did I get to surf for more than 2 hours total on two trips. The committee are mostly the same for next year (one member being pretty much bullied into leaving and a couple have left), so I hope they would have improved by 22/23. Other than that, the uni is ok. The only amazing points are the modern and seemingly luxurious amenities as well as the high job offers and placement opportunities. Of course, this was only one society and I joined a different one. Most people are nice but this is just a heads up to potential surfers on the off chance they read this.
Good. I go to Guildford School of Acting so I don't know much about UoS but I think it's good. They have a great Disability and Neurodiversity team too.
Overall a fun and sociable university
Cool space like pingpong okay he done
I enjoy all staff i ln University, beautiful lake and nature, food market and societies events. Perfect job.
Life at Surrey has taught me extensive knowledge and prepared me for my future career. I really appreciate how all the staff supported us during our academic study.
Great experience and really helped with belonging to the University. Lectures were proactive in my course.
Didn't get any career support from Professors. They have career advisors but student account will not work after you graduate. you are on your own.
Excellent university and staff
I recently just started but from what I can see this is a good university and I would advice people to come here.. the environment is friendly, outstanding facilities and accommodating clubs and societies would recommend!!
Haven't been here for long enough to know the campus that well
I am very pleased by the University of Surrey. Excellent facilities, technology, tidy and clean spaces with the stuff always available.
Love the location of my university and the variety of people I meet here!
Studying at the University of Surrey is such a good decision, the teaching staffs are all so nice and professional. They made the learning journey in a fun and nice way. The whole Stag Hill Campus is beautiful, especially the University of Surrey Lake. The library is my favourite place.
The university has a friendly environment and big and modern library. Hive is very good for people who facing trouble and dont know what to do.
Accommodation is awful and isolating. Rent averages £600/month for a room in a shared house. Like an overpopulated mini London where everyone is cold and cruel because no one has any personal space whatsoever because the campus and facilities are pushed far beyond their maximum occupancy. Buses are always late. Rail is always on strike or late. Nothing to do in town. Student union club always sold out and their weird sex fetish themed nights every week are total cringe. Everything is overpriced. PGRs in my department all live outside of Guildford because it's too expensive to live in town so you never see other PGRs, their "student rep" is a joke who does the absolute bare minimum to connect the PGR community. My department has no seminars or anything so no reason for any other PGRs to ever cross paths. I was denied access to facilities/equipment critical for my research project but undergrads are allowed to use everything. NHS services are stretched thin. Place is a diploma mill.
Responded well to the covid situation.
It is a nice university to attend, with great social life.
Very good university and people that care about the students
The univeristy of not bad comparing with Hazel farm. Hazel farm is the worst
A place for students to come find and a explore themselves.
A great place to study and meet a variety of students from different cultures.
Some of the lecture rooms are old and frankly too small. Societies within this university is great, however, it’s rather expensive if you want to join sport society. Careers service shows no support whatsoever. There are some area in the campus have no Internet connection. The management have clearly shown very little support regarding students mental and physical health.
So far as I write this, Its a shame to say Im really disappointed with going here. The campus is beautiful and Guildford is nice between countryside and London. The management of this Uni is somewhat disgraceful. They do not seem to care about your welfare, and I have had many issues with this uni from accommodation managers who don't care once you pay the bill, and consistently demand it. Everyone all agrees that there needs to be a major shift in the overall management of the University as its foundations are there to be a great place to study. It's a real shame. I would have gone somewhere else if I knew what I knew now. Don't believe me ask anyone who is going here currently (2021)
Bit sucky really. Town sucks. Go to a city uni instead - much better facilities.
It's the best University I've ever been!
lovely campus, manor park has a great environment (20mins walk/10 mins bus), sports park is great for me, the career service is not bad (workshops and individual appointments available), a bit pricey stuffs in campus, 15mins walk to the town centre from campus, 24 hours library, not applicable to clubs and societies as I am not active during my time in the university
Happy overall! Beautiful campus and helpful staff.
Good university with a sprawling campus. However, they seem more concerned in investing in their appearance rather than their quality of facilities
The University has bad management but overall is a nice place to study.
At least the internet in halls and private accommodation was good. Teaching was also ok. Surreylearn online service was awesome. HOWEVER, I had terrible experiences with renting, student union funding, societies, social culture, social spaces, administrative boards and the exam board. Ended up having to go somewhere else in third year because I couldn't stand it. I'm picking where to go now during the Corvid-19 pandemic...
I have had a really positive experience during first year and i love this uni so much!
campus is nice but accommodation services are too strict - no guests allowed over - on campus shop is too expensive and town is a 15 minute walk away and coming back is all uphill. bus service unreliable - what does the student union even do? also our chancellor spent £1.6k of the universities money moving his dog
I would not recommend going to this university especially to study law. There has been a huge negative change in the past 2 years. Student services are unhelpful and very unwilling to work with you. The parking is terrible and everything is very overpriced. With regards to teaching, your success would solely depend on the lecturer that you pick and not the subject as there is huge inconsistency between lecturers.
Student life:AMAZING! Best years of my life!
Student life:AMAZING! Best years of my life! Course: If you're planning to study Psychology here, please, please,please reconsider! It is absolutely terrible. The course is unbelievably tedious and pointless - you will acquire no skills whatsoever and it will be a grandiose waste of time. Lecturers are extremely unprepared and Year 2 is pretty much a carbon copy Of Year 1 so you learn nothing on top on the "nothing" you already learnt in first year. They claim to want you to practice your "critical thinking" but you are only allowed to do that as long as you argue as per their ridiculous and pointless views on real psychological issues.
It is a beautiful Uni but of course there are always faults. It is never as great a system as it appears to be advertised. But they seem to care greatly about student well-being.
Racism the differentiate between Arabs and not!!!!
Good uni with good support systems!
Very good facilities - library is amazing