University College Birmingham - UCB
speciality: Tourism & Hospitality

University College Birmingham is a interesting university experience. They have many different buildings scattered around the city centre instead of being focused in one sole location and site with the cub accommodation
being a 20min walk away due to this. Some buildings are brand new, modern and fully equipped whilst others and old, cold and need updating. The University is very active with social events, open talks, support and fundraising and social issue discussions. Classes vary depending on your chosen degree.

Some days I have fully prepared lectures. The next is a powerpoint with information seemly taken off googled and a wasted 35min walk. The staff however are very accommodating and really want to see the best in all students.

The lecturers offer lots of additional support for assignments and have many practise and review sessions which are extremely useful.

UCB is definitely a university I would reccomend due to it’d variety of degree choices not regularly taught at other places within big cities.

There are good bits and bad bits of the university.
The good bits are that subjects are actually quite interesting. Depending on your course of course they change, but if you are doing MA inCulinary Arts Management. My personal favourite is Culinary Innovation Product Development. It is basically where we creat our own product which can be sold in stores and restaurants. Other than that, we also have subjects that are based on accounting and finance too. There is one subject which helps in understanding how to basically manage an operation. If someone is into HR and some subjects like that, we have got subjects that cover up that as well. The professors are really nice.
The bad bits:
The assignments, they change their format whenever a new batch shows up. So it is quite tough for a new batch to understand how to do the assignments. The dates for their submissions can fall in the week or even days, so it does become tough to handle them. The u-search, which is a part of their academic website, which they say we can use it to search books, is not very useful. Most of the books I have looked for, I couldn’t find them. The professors are not always very clear with their answers. As in they will beat around the bush and not will always be direct.

As it is my first year starting at UCB my experience as been good so far specially the practical aspects as I am studying international hospitality and tourism management. It has been a great journey so far as I have struggled my way to where I am by being hardworking and i believe my schooling at UCB is the best for me to expand my career forward.

It’s an interesting and exciting program, classes are quite spacious, teachers are very helpful but very quick to get angry haha the school looks very nice. However, it lacks a certain university experience, maybe because I have been to another university for my undergrad and I have something to compare it to. But overall it is a great place. Would recommend the school either way.