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4.28 / 5 from 701 verified student reviews

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University College London (UCL) Hall Rankings


Somerset Court #1
East Central House #2
Elizabeth Croll House #3
Grosvenor House #4
Bloomsbury Janet Poole House #5
Piccadilly Court #6
Stapleton House #7
St Pancras Way #8
North Lodge #9
New Hall #10

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4.28 / 5 from 701 verified student reviews

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Student Review: 3.4 /5
By member1046143 On 27th February 20 verified Verified student

International student. Did a 3 year degree. Lecturers went on strike and attempted to convince me to not go into the library to support them. Teachers are bias and teach their political leanings as facts. If you don't agree with the student union's position on things, good luck trying to argue with them. I paid crazy money for professors to not answer my emails, and have barely any time to help with queries. To be honest, going to UCL was paying 50K for a piece of paper with UCL on it, and no actual knowledge of anything mildly useful to my current career to back it up.

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Student Review: 3.4 /5
By member845566 On 11th February 20 verified Verified student

typical uni with bad organisation and admin but in a nice location.

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Student Review: 4.6 /5
By member745407 On 9th February 20 verified Verified student

Almost everything about UCL is excellent and the people who are only studying here without work or other responsibilities can get great benefits from all of the existing services and societies. Some services, e.g. student support centre, perhaps should have more employees to deal with the number of students more effectively. The strikes during 2019 and the upcoming one in February-March are real buzz killers though, and the worst part is that we do not get to have the lectures rescheduled or a full refund.

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Student Review: 1.4 /5
By member545228 On 5th February 20 verified Verified student

This is where hope and aspiration comes to die. Some of the worst educators in the country who conspire to trample on students energy and ambition by dumbing down and doing the absolute bare minimum. Go to any other university in the UK where teaching is by people that care; where there is intellectual stimulus and progressive attitudes; where accommodation is available and where you can look back with fondness and remember university as a foundation for future success. UCL offers none of these things and I wish I had made any other choice for further education.

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Student Review: 5 /5
By member1344647 On 6th January 20 verified Verified student

I am really enjoying my time at UCL and the facilities are really great. They have many enormous libraries to access resources and quiet places to study. There are a range of societies and clubs to join.

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Student Review: 3.8 /5
By VinayPatel237 On 30th November 19 verified Verified student

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#

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Student Review: 4 /5
By member542720 On 14th October 19 verified Verified student

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!

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Student Review: 4.4 /5
By member1142383 On 24th September 19 verified Verified student

Good uni, sociable with good societies

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Student Review: 1 /5
By member942368 On 24th September 19 verified Verified student

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

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Student Review: 4.2 /5
By member442364 On 23rd September 19 verified Verified student

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.

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