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“Overall positive experience”
nada m
Egypt, Undergraduate
Communication and Information Sciences, 2019
OverallKingston University offers a great program for international students, located in a prime location just 40 minutes from the busy scene of central London. With 4 different campuses and unlimited access to facilities the university offers students many resources to excel in their research and studies. personally, I had a positive experience during my enrolment in the Media and Communications BA, as classes were not over populated allowing every student the space to absorb information, providing a positive and safe space for questions and enquiries. I would highly recommend Kingston University for students as it meets all the requirements for an overall promising and successful university experience.
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Pros
number of students in classes, students hub, teachers
Cons
not 100% succesful in making sure you have secured a job post studies.
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Arlene A
Academic
Course recommendations
If you're an American student, let me give you a head's up: British students don't normally schedule themselves. They are scheduled by the administration, and if they have a choice between modules, then they are given the opportunity to choose. Thus: there is no module guide with times of lectures and the lecturers teaching them. The two managers of the programme will submit your requests for module scheduling.
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My academic experiences
Interaction with teachers
Interaction with international students
Interaction with local students
Personal comments
The lecturers don't get to know your name. In fact, they don't care to; your relationship with them is strictly professional...or at least that's what it seems like...With second-year and third-year students, they get to know the permanant (not the part-time or temporary) lecturers, and usually are guided by them during their theses and porjects. But with you, they probably won't, unless they are intrigued by your foreign-ness. The politics lecturers: they will say things just to get a rise out of you, just to make you speak up during seminar. Most lecturers are part-time and have jobs full-time elsewhere, so getting ahold of them is very frustrating.
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My opinion of the university assessment
Exams throughout the course
Essays and/or projects at the end of course
Essays and/or projects throughout the course
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“My experience of Internation Business at Kingston University”
Joseph D
United Kingdom, Undergraduate
Business Studies, 2020
Overall
The best part about Kingston University is the lecturers. they are highly experienced professionals from a diverse range of fields that really bring their knowledge to the class for an immersive experience. students are from a diverse range of backgrounds including many international students and Erasmus students between modules. the social scene is very good and the university hosts lots of events to help young students break into the social scene or societies. Kingston offers many additional free language courses to be taken alongside your course to help you prepare for an international career.
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Pros
Free Language courses, Excellent Lecturers,
Cons
Business campus location
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Arlene A
Housing
Type of housing: Very limited on-campus housing
Arranged by: Host university
If returning, I would choose: On campus
Why?
Many other international students had problems with their landladies and landlords. Off-campus housing was far from campus, with few amenities (i.e. inconvenient).
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Personal comments
On-campus housing is very nice...if your flatmates aren't messy in the kitchen and toilet. But it is very difficult to get on-campus housing, and recently the university lost its bid for some land on which they were going to build a new student community. Off-campus housing required a lot of hassle with landlords and landladies, and the amenities vary wildly even though the cost is uniform (about £75 per week). The public transportation is great, but can really get to you if you need to get somewhere quickly or if you're light on cash. Housing is luck of the draw when you're an international student. I was scheduled to live in a private residence, but that fell through. I was homeless for about 4 hours, until the two managers of the programme found a place on campus and one of them personally drove me to the buildling after business hours.
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“Very multicultural University”
Filippo C
Italy, Undergraduate
International Relations, 2020
Overall
Student life in Kingston is alright, nothing too crazy to be honest. Even though the town is predominantly filled with young people, there is not too much to do at night.
As for the University itself, I personally enjoyed very much my course there and some professors have been really helpful and available for assistance throughout the whole course.
What I loved the most about it, it's the rich multiculturalism of the students: I've had peers from literally all over the world and this certainly enhanced and made more interesting the learning experience.
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Pros
Prepared professors; multicultural students.
Cons
Student life
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“Very multicultural University”
Filippo C
Italy, Undergraduate
International Relations, 2020
Overall
Student life in Kingston is alright, nothing too crazy to be honest. Even though the town is predominantly filled with young people, there is not too much to do at night.
As for the University itself, I personally enjoyed very much my course there and some professors have been really helpful and available for assistance throughout the whole course.
What I loved the most about it, it's the rich multiculturalism of the students: I've had peers from literally all over the world and this certainly enhanced and made more interesting the learning experience.
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Pros
Prepared professors; multicultural students.
Cons
Student life
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