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I really love this year’s international study experience at UCL, and I do believe that I will never forget the memorable moments there.
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I studied the Chemical Engineering BEng and graduated in 2018. *All the bad things you hear about the department are true*. Teaching is awful, lecturers for the most part visibly don't want to be there, organisation is bad, and the staff don't care about you. The student satisfaction being 1/5 almost all the time from 2013 to 2020 speaks accurately on how well undergraduates are treated. The department only cares about its postgraduate students in which it makes a name for itself , and draws in undergraduate students to fund the postgraduate research. The best parts of the course are either out-of-department (IEP) or co-ordinated mostly by postgraduate students and not the main staff. The poor teaching means its far more feasible to memorise or copy than actually learn to get ahead. I've written something fuller which you can find here: https://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/showthread.php?t=6241196&p=86176874#
I haven't been here long enough to really comment on a lot of the aspects of university, but there seems to be a great variety of societies! Unfortunately the general administration for the uni is *incredibly* poor... don't expect them to send you much information about anything useful until the absolute last minute!
Good uni, sociable with good societies
Imagine, you are invited to a dinner party with a group of people that you admire. It’s considered a very prestigious thing to be invited to those parties, so you are excited and expect this to be the best evening of your young life. The entrance fee is very high, but you know that it will be worth it. You enter the house, and everything seems glamorous and shiny. But already after the first few conversations you start to realise that this was just a facade. More and more it becomes evident that these people are not who they claim to be. They are robbers and you are their victim. In the next second, they stole 14.530 pounds from you. But this is just the beginning. They steal a whole year of your time and cause mental health problems which you will probably not get rid of soon. How could this happen? The whole world praises these dinner parties especially with these people. And now they have robbed you and not given you anything in return. This is what a masters at UCL feels like
Loved it so far, Im a first year student and although the organisation is not that great, the prestige, facilities and location make up for it.
First class teaching and research ... but in almost every other respect, UCL is hot garbage. It’s a for-profit corporation and is run accordingly; they just want your money, and once they’ve got it they treat you like something they’ve scraped off their (expensive, designer) shoe. Organisation and administration are an absolute shambles. Given its history and potential this is a great shame.
UCL is well known university but remember it’s not good environment to study or achieve your goals. However if you are buying the name and have money then good luck. They don’t deserve even one star
Amazing staff and good customer service
Probably the highest density of underqualified teachers, unmotivated staff and lost hopes in anything good in this world. This uni stole 15k from me and has not given me propper education in return. The only right thing to do with your acceptance letter is burning it.
I have enjoyed my time at university