GBSB Global Business School vs University of Malta vs SMC Business School vs American University of Malta vs International European University - IEU
Side-by-side comparison from 94 verified student reviews. Scan one row at a time — winners are highlighted
- +Balanced academic theory with practical, real-world application
- +Knowledgeable, passionate, and engaged lecturers
- +Strong community and international atmosphere
- +Supportive and expert academic staff
- +Excellent study environment and campus beauty
- +Strong administrative and personal student support
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- +Engaging professors and diverse extracurricular activities
- +Affordable on-campus accommodation
- +Pleasant campus environment
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- +Practical, relevant curriculum & top faculty
- +Flexible, executive-focused structure
- +Individualized support & feedback
- -Poor academic quality and lack of practical value in degrees.
- -Administrative and organizational issues with limited student support.
- -Inconsistent teaching quality and outdated or inadequate facilities.
- -Administrative and management issues are frequently cited.
- -Outdated facilities and poor maintenance are common complaints.
- -Lack of engagement from instructors and uninspiring course content are disliked.
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- -Administrative and management issues indicate a focus on profit over education.
- -Lack of qualified professors and frequent staff changes disrupt learning.
- -Poor student life and disrespectful, unprofessional staff are significant problems.
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- -Lack of instructor support and engagement
- -Inconvenient and inaccessible campus facilities
- -Poorly organized course content and administrative processes
This institution shines brightest in its **internationality**, boasting a near-perfect score. **Location** is another significant strength, highly valued by students. Conversely, **accommodation** presents the most significant area for improvement, receiving the lowest rating. Other aspects like **professors** and **student life** are well-regarded, while **facilities** and **value** fall within the mid-range.
A comprehensive review indicates a strong showing across most aspects of university life. The institution excels in **Location**, boasting the highest rating. **Professors** also receive commendation for their quality. **Student Life** emerges as the comparatively weakest area, though still rated favorably. Other categories like Facilities, Accomodation, Internationality, and Value all fall within a commendable range, suggesting a well-rounded educational experience.
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This institution presents a mixed bag of ratings. Its strongest area is **Location**, receiving a respectable 3.67. In contrast, **Facilities** stand out as a clear weakness, scoring a low 1. Other areas, including Professors, Student Life, Internationality, and Value, fall into the mid-range with scores around 2.33. Accommodation also scores on the lower side at 2.
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This institution's evaluation reveals a stark contrast between its strengths and weaknesses. It shines brightly in **Internationality** and **Value**, both receiving perfect scores. Conversely, **Facilities**, **Location**, **Student Life**, and **Accomodation** all scored a zero, indicating significant areas requiring substantial improvement. The **Professors** category, however, presents a positive note with an excellent rating of 4.86.
Around 74% of reviews are positive, praising the community, practical curriculum, and knowledgeable lecturers. Some negative feedback, ~13%, points to administrative issues and inconsistent academic quality.
Students praise the university's supportive academic staff and enriching study environment, with ~100% of feedback being positive. Some mention research limitations but highlight excellent administrative support.
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With an average rating of 2.33/5 from 3 reviews, feedback is predominantly negative (~67%). Concerns include a perceived "money grab" scheme, unqualified professors, and a lack of professionalism from staff. One positive review highlighted exciting experiences, friendly staff, and affordable accommodation.
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All 7 reviews are highly positive, with students praising the practical and relevant curriculum, flexible distance learning options, and excellent faculty. The average rating is 5/5.
The overall experience was ok. Yet I dont feel that it was worth 10k€ a year for what I received. Starting from repetitive classes in each year but with a different name until not having bathrooms for almost 6 months. The quality of the majority of classes was 2/5. The content of the classes was not deep enough to teach you about tools, appliances, ways of solving, what should be taken into consideration. On my 2 last years. I took the exact same class of public relations but named differently. Not even the professor knew what to say any more. I didn’t saw not event one tool that is used in public relations. We analyzed just one case of public relations in the whole semester. And it was a mention not event a full analysis. I do not recommend GBSB. The internships they say the help you with on their webpage its a lie. They do not help you in any way to connect you with no company. They are not event informed in how to help you with the visa.
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I absolutely do not recommend this place and regret giving it a chance in the first place despite all the rumours and media talk. Now I’ve seen it first hand for myself and its beyond anything an outsider can imagine. The university has clearly been setup as a scheme of a quick money grab and not for academic purposes. Almost all professors are unqualified to teach and are simply fillers which has resulted in frequent facility member changes every semester. Basic professionalism, manners, respect are not part of AUM at all. The provosts & staff members will go head to head with students by belittling and disrespecting them. They are unprofessional & disrespectful and cannot handle any questions asked with respect in regards to academic inquires. The university is run with serious homophobia and racism throughout and has gone as far as firing 2 homosexual professors. Some professors have continuously passed on racist, homophobic and sexual commentary to students on multiple occasions during lectures with little to no action taken as students feel scared to approach staff and send complaints. The class syllabus is there for decoration and is a useless piece of paper. Full presidential scholarships are given out like candy to students who do not attend or participate in classes all year around. The careless students are being pardoned by the universities founder from the sadden group as friendships are tired in between. Only a very few students with high GPAs and a high work ethic have received a well deserved full scholarships. Other students have gotten rejected every year for any scholarship application as the full scholarships are favoured to the Jordanian students since the founder is Jordanian. Students have dropped out of the “university” for its lack of professionalism and lack of experience in running an academic place. Its a circus and a fraudulent place. Under 300k euros in profit annual is made by this "international university" by sucking money from students pockets and 14.8 million euros in losses. Ex staff and professors have come forth to some students about the university's behind the scenes treatments and sketchy "plans" and operations. All social media engagement is purchased and promoted in underdeveloped countries in order to take advantage of the less fortunate by selling them fake hopes and dreams. 2019 - 2022 has been nothing short of a nightmare at AUM. If you are serious about your studies and future do not go to this place. Students including myself gave them a chance every semester for improvement and not one stone has been moved. They ask us for feedback and waste our time in meetings only to not acknowledge a thing we've said. I have very few semesters left in this place and cannot leave now unless I get the bachelor's certificate so I do not start from square one when going elsewhere to make up for lost time at this place. You will end up wasting your time, money, energy, mental, and emotional health on people who don’t know how to run anything other than their mouths. Avoid at all costs. I could go on but this is the tamest review about my university experience at AUM.
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I am still in the EMBA (Exec MBA) program - starting term 4 in 5 weeks. Despite self-study about business and entrepreneurship since the early 1980s, my knowledge gaps are wide, and this EMBA's courses are doing a great job filling in those gaps, and giving me structure Semesters are intense, at only 8 weeks each. But the program offers an ideal mix of synchronous live lectures (over streaming video) and asynch online study materials. Each course I've taken so far has a participation component, which both allows me to express my interpretation on concepts, as well as hear that of my classmates - forming a much broader picture. I've enjoyed SMC's EMBA so much that I've been preparing for possibly applying to both their PhD-AI and DBA programs next year.
