University of Warwick
speciality: Linguistics

Warwick university is a great option for those who love to meet new people as there is a strong student culture here and my English Language and Linguistics course is no exception. With students from all backgrounds you hear different perspectives on the effects of language use and the significance of theories you learn in lectures. I constantly find myself applying what I learn to everyday conversations showing the relevancy of my course.

Warwick truly ensures you are supported through your whole degree with easy access to Wellbeing Support Services which I have used and can recommend myself and the beautiful campus, lakes and greenery help you romanticise your university experience.

I’ve been at Uni of Warwick for almost two years now, studying Modern Languages and Linguistics. It truly is a university like no other. With its brilliant location in the middle of the country, transport options are phenomenal, with direct trains to London and the North, and only thirty minutes away from Birmingham, the UK’s second-largest city.
The campus itself is wonderful. As it’s based just outside the city of Coventry, so much greenery surrounds the post-modern architecture of the academic buildings and accommodation. Woodland paths surround the campus and a river even runs behind it, making it the perfect campus for those nature-lovers. I enjoyed walks each day around campus and through the woodlands when I lived on campus, in Jack Martin, last year.
One of the main advantages of Warwick is the ability to combine courses. You can add a language to pretty much any course to give you that extra boost in job prospects (or if you simply want to learn a new/post-A-Level language). There are endless modules for each course too. This means that everyone at Warwick has a unique course, which is something that I personally love about the university.
Something which is very apt for today’s world is the quality of the Wellbeing Services. With firsthand experience, I can tell you that the services that Warwick provides are outstanding and incomparable to any other UK university.
The only major negative is, in fact, the location. For second years above, we have to make a compromise and live a bit further away from campus, either in Leamington Spa or Coventry. This entails a 40-minute bus ride or 20-minute car journey each day to campus, which can be a negative but something which we all live with and it’s not as bad as we first thought!
I’ve loved my time at Warwick and look forward to the next two years I spend there. I feel very lucky to have gotten the chance to study here.

I believe that a university that holds itself to such high academic esteem must have mental health resources that parallel it in such a way. My experiences with the wellbeing service has been nothing short of underwhelming as the extent of my support was being told that what I was going through was ”really difficult” with no advice being given.