University of Nottingham - UoN
speciality: History

The University of Nottingham is a vibrant community filled with what feels like endless oppertunities.

Studying a joint honours programme allows a greater level of understand into two disciplines that are very cohesive together. The bredth and depth of topics available within History is wide-reaching allowing you to take history modules from the medieval times to the 2010s. This choice ensure thats there are options for everyone throughout your degree and each person can understand what sort of historian they are. For politics the choices may not be as endless for joint honours students, but there is still a wide range of topics on offer and covered allowing you to engage with different types and variations of politics particularly as you progress in the degree and you can choose more optional modules to suit your interests.

At Nottingham you have the opportunity to take a second year module that it exclusively for the joint honours students that take History and Politics, and this allows you to understand and combine the separate disciplines on a deeper level in preparation for choosing your final year dissertation project.

Assessments involves a mix of collaborative work and individual work, allowing you to get to know your course mates better and gain valuable group projects skills. Seminar tutors and personal tutors are always available to have meetings for further support if needed and are always happy to help you or point you in the right direction of people who can instead.

The University Park campus hosts a wide range of study spaces available for you to use, including small group rooms to prebook, cafe’s, libraries and silent study areas throughout the campus so there is always somewhere new or different to study in for a change of scenery

One of my favourite things about the university is the societies that are on offer and how they create such a community and group for you to find yourself and allow you to express yourself as authentically as possible. This helps to introduce you to so many more people, and helps you become more confident in yourself as you transition into an adult preparing for a job.

I enjoyed my time at UoN. I felt the course I chose – history – was interesting and engaging, and pretty much all the lecturers I had were good. However, I felt soon after starting my course, that further education was not for me, personally.

The campus is lovely, and the city too. I have nothing negative to say about either.

The campus is a lovely, well put together place for students. Its easy to locate lecture buildings and libraries. The greenery as well on campus is nice and refreshing every time you walk around. this along with the lake provides an environmental friendly place. Felt proud to show family and friends the campus and say that i went there.

Extra credits are perhaps the greatest gift students have. With such a great saturation of degrees in the employee market (16.4 million people) it is hard to stand out. But the strength UoN has is an excellent language school which is widely under-utilised by the student base at large. A language, no matter what, opens a huge amount of doors in life. I have had an excellent time learning Arabic through the language department at UoN, which has in turn greatly separated my employability from my peers in an increasingly internationally focused world.

This first year at the University of Nottingham has been amazing. Campus life is so inclusive and makes it easy for first years to bond with one another. Lecturers on the whole, in the Arts, tend to be engaging which makes it easy to absorb information. Moreover, UoN made the transition between A Levels and University work almost seamless. However, night life is at the epicentre of social life at the University. Drinking and going out multiple times a week tends to be the norm, and therefore if that is not your interest, UoN can be quite isolating.

Nottingham is a great university in a great city. The courses are well structured and taught in modern facilities. The student union is the perfect place to socialize, work and book meeting rooms. Downstairs there is a small grocery store and a bar and club. Union is a society for absolutely everyone and offers countless opportunities to really participate in university life. Career Services offer a very convenient way to get additional support, from resume workshops to small business startup sessions. Overall, I’m glad I chose notts. There is no other place I want to go. Would recommend to anyone.

It was a really good uni with a beautiful campus and good facilities and onsite bars and eateries. You’re expected to do a lot of the work yourself rather than being helped much by tutors, with limited contact hours

Brilliant University for overall student life, lovely campus, a range of affordable places to live and great professors. Teaching was diverse and to a very high level, I felt very supported even on a course of 300 people.