I enjoyed my time in Newcastle mainly because of the city and the people. Everybody is really friendly and nice. However, not so much in the Business school. Some lecturers are great, always answering emails, ready to help, teaching great content and explaining assignments in detail. Some don’t do anything of the sort.

The only thing I can say about the course that I am enrolled in is that the university teaches you almost only theory which you are unlikely to use in the ‘real world’ when applying for jobs. They tell you constantly that you have to be a team player because that is what employers want and when you go to that interview the feedback is that you are too much of a team player!

Almost no practical skills such as Facebook, Instagram ads, Google Analytics in detail, Photoshop and video editing (very important for a marketeer) are taught. The only practical thing we did during my time in the university was the Marketing in Practice module during the 1st year, but that was not too good as well, because as first-year students we had limited understanding of what marketing actually is to fully understand what we were doing in the module.

An amazing thing, however, is the Consultancy project (an alternative to a dissertation) that we can choose to do in the final year.

There as also a number of societies that one can choose from. NUSU also has some really great events organised for students all year round.