Student review [#89178] for Business and Management
at University Of Buckingham

Honestly? The University of Buckingham was like a strange boutique hotel: a small, intense, sometimes chaotic environment but with pockets of real brilliance. It wasn’t a “traditional university” experience like what you’d find in sprawling city campuses or ivy-covered halls. Instead, it felt more like an academic time capsule where independence is a feature, not a luxury.
As someone who’s lived in different countries and speaks both French and English, I found it fascinating sometimes charmingly eccentric, other times frustratingly rigid. But it made me sharper, faster, and more self-reliant. It was more than education; it was training for the unpredictability of the real world.
Liked:
•The two-year accelerated degree forced me to become efficient there’s no time to coast.
•The tight-knit community meant you couldn’t hide; your voice mattered.
•Professors were accessible. Some were unconventional, others deeply passionate.
•I liked how, as an international person, I never felt invisible.

Disliked:
•It could sometimes feel isolated physically and ideologically.
•Not enough diversity in course structure or career support.
•There was this quiet tension between the school’s ambition and its limited resources. At times, it showed.
But again if you’re adaptable and culturally fluid like me, you make it work and walk away sharper for it.
Yes!! but not for everyone.
If you’re the type who thrives on hand-holding, massive lectures, or social scenes straight out of Netflix shows, it might not be for you. But if you’re internationally minded, self-motivated, and don’t mind being the outlier it can be a launchpad. Especially for global citizens like me, who’ve grown up navigating cultures, languages, and expectations.
It’s not Oxford. It’s not trying to be.
But if you let it , it will teach you how to be your own institution.