Student review [#20330] for Architecture
at Universidad Politécnica de Valencia - UPV

I must admit that both the location of the school and the distribution of the facilities are quite good, but for an architecture school, it could have chosen better materials, since it is quite cold (and more now with the issue of ventilation by the pandemic). Of course, the race is tougher than I thought.

Obviously, being in engineering, I did not expect it to be an easy degree to take, but I did not expect it to be so complex to achieve a course per year. What’s more, few students succeed. If it is true that the first course is quite passable, since it is more like a kind of introduction, but the step to second is quite intense. The change from one course to another is very noticeable, I feel that in the first they either do not give you the sufficient level or in the second they demand more than what they play with the base that they have given us.

As for teachers … Honestly, there are few who, at least in my opinion, deserves the title of good teachers, since there are two or three who really arouse your passion for the career, those who make going to your subject is a real joy. With this, I do not mean that the rest of the teachers are horrible, but that some are not the best at explaining, others miss their classes and others demand a higher level in their exams than they have taught in class.

All this has contributed to the fact that I have been studying this degree for more than four years and, honestly, I have not left it because it is something I would like to dedicate myself to in the future, but if you consider entering because the cut-off mark is low, think of something else. I think that if your vocation is not really this, there is no point in trying to study it because it is quite tough.

Ah! And we must not forget that with this career you do not become an architect who defines the design of construction and how it is carried out, that is the function of a superior architect. The technical architect is the one who is in charge of supervising that the construction is being carried out correctly, but not the design since I have seen more than one case of students who entered this career by confusing it with superior architecture.