Trinity College Dublin - TCD Speciality : Business and Strategy
programme: Business Studies and Spanish

Trinity is an overall outstanding university with some of the greatest facilities in the world – but a few fixes would make it the best college for student experience in the world.

Firstly the weekly hours for some courses. Quite often a course will be exposed to just one lecture/tutorial per day even in full time courses. This means that travelling students have to stay an extra night or come all the way in for one hour of work. The timetables can be quite poorly planned, with some days being extremely busy, and other days with just one or two lectures with a large gap in between.

Another criticism of trinity is the lack of a relaxed and non crowded area on campus to chill out. Often times when the weather is poor, students are forced to smaller cramped areas around the perch and buttery, with many students not being afforded a seat. If students then decide to go elsewhere like the areas upstairs in the arts block, conversations are discouraged for noise even at the most basic level.

Another slight criticism would be that often Lecturers do not work in tangent with TAs or tutorial leaders. This leads to a gap in learning and means that the lecturers message and their learning objectives are not met.

In my opinion, Trinity is the most overated university in Ireland. The campus life is non existent. There is no help in regards to questions about exams, results and general questions outside of lectures/modules. The lectures themselves do not stand out in comparison to other universities in the country. A lot of the reasons the university ranks so highly each year seems to be the fact they like to involve themselves in “climate action” and being inclusive rather than the university being very good overall. Outside of the negatives, the lecturers are quite nice and some of the modules are interesting, although others are incredibly boring (but that isnt a problem with only trinity).