Universidad Politécnica de Valencia - UPV Speciality : Archaeology
programme: Conservation of Cultural Heritage

First, I’ve got to clarify that my review is specifically for the Conservation of Architectural Heritage Master’s Degree (in the ETSA college) where I took the (Heritage) Management track. The first semester was relatively formative and I had some decent professors (two of which were fantastic), but the second semester where we started our tracks/specialties was a total waste of time, money and energy. I stressed out over projects I had no guidance (emails to professors would sit unanswered for weeks) or instructions on, took 6-hourlong classes about professors’ personal projects without any sort of learning experience on the processes and methodologies of those projects, had professors show up 30 minutes late because they had to “brush their teeth” and received more feedback about the types of bullet points I was using and the background color of my presentations than the content of my work. Not to mention that half of our class was from Latin America and, in 6 classes and 4 12-hourlong seminars, no one could be bothered to “internationalize” the panels. I can’t believe I invested time and money to move to Valencia for this experience.