Student review [#51265] for History and Politics
at University College Dublin - UCD

I started in UCD last September and was blown away by the facilities the universities had on offer. The campus is huge with 500-seat lecture halls, dozens of sports pitches, countless cafés and restaurants and four libraries. There are amenities that regular universities don’t have like a pharmacy and even a cinema! The campus is also very green, with swans and ducks in the three lakes and squirrels and foxes scurrying around the place. It’s a beautiful campus during warm weather. It has very good public transport links also and is very accessible. The nightlife is great with buses running to the city and back all night long.

Many of my lecturers have excellent reputations and are internationally recognised in their field. They are very engaging and will always help you if you need it. The workload is also very manageable.
However, life on campus is expensive. Profit is a main target of the University, and is too often prioritised over the needs of students. Accommodation in UCD is the most expensive in the country, and resit exam fees are also high. The Access centre are great in supporting low income students but UCD is definitely an upper class, somewhat elitist university.