University of Aberdeen

Hillhead is crammed with youngish(17-18 year olds) students who realy like to party. If that's your goal, Hillhead is your place, if you prefer to live with a little more mature students, a flat from somewhere else will be better(and cheaper, is most cases)

There's quite a lot of Finnish people in here both as exhange students and those doing an entire degree. Not entirely a bad thing but one might end up hanging too much in ones own company. Then again, that is what generally happens with every nationality.

Professors and lecturers are extremely helpful and academically, I feel that I got quite a lot out of my studies. I warmly recommend the University I you are not very advanced in your studies(I went on my 2/3 year).

How insular and closed in the aberdeen university community was.

Although this university may suit other caucasian students on brief exchange(ERASMUS).I would strongly recommend african/Black/Asian students to stay away.The lecturers and students seemed to be caught up in a time warp and carried some nasty stereo types of black people.A minor incident may illustrate the mindset; The final year students held a going away party,invite everyone else bar the 3 ethnic minority students.Then they have the gall to hang up the pics all over the department! Most of the computer science seemed to carry some visceral hatred(fear) of black people.This prevented the establishment of any meaningfull rapport between student and lecturer.The other students seemed to take cue from their lecturers.2 words STAY AWAY.

You can't take 3000 and 4000 level couress with 1000 and 2000 levels. In addition they only offer one section of each course a semester and so many courses timetable out other courses.

Continuos assessment is a good thing, but don't expect it at U of A.