Hi, i am considering pre masters to enter either,

1. Uni of birmingham - msc in business analytics

2. Uni of liverpool- Msc in business analytics and Big Data

I have to go through the pre-masters route as my results aren't that good. Which uni and course is better and more recognised in UK as I am looking to settle down in UK.

Also is it super hard to find a job?
thanks!

Hi guys, I need some help in deciding between Russell group vs non Russell group university, whereby I'm stuck with 2 choices because my undergraduate results arent that good. For context: I'm looking to settle down in EU/UK. Im in international student!

1. Do a pre-masters and enter a russell group uni
2. Try to a non-russell group uni with my current undergrad marks (not sure my chances but going to try)

thanks!!

I am currently doing Chemistry, Math and Physics for my a levels and I have the confidence to get 3 A*s. Right now I’m struggling to pick from Chemistry engineering and Accounting and Finance, as I don’t know what the future will be in terms of career and wages for those two subjects…

I’m down to my dissertation and I’ve been marked down as 45%. However after calculating all my modules and my overall grade, I’m still above a pass. But they won’t pass me. Plus I didn’t have support for almost 8 weeks but this isn’t being taken into account. I’ve tried to argue this to my tutor and module lead but they’re saying they can’t do anything and they won’t remark my dissertation or change my grade. What can I do? How can I appeal based on these other factors? Any actual advice or suggestions

I’m curious—what’s the biggest challenge you face when studying from your notes? Whether it’s organizing them, finding key information, or just retaining everything.

I’m developing a new tool to tackle these exact issues. It’ll let you upload photos of your handwritten notes, automatically turning them into organized, searchable text for easier studying. To make sure this tool is genuinely helpful, I’d love some feedback from students.

Would you take 2 minutes to share your thoughts? Your insights will directly shape the features, so it’s truly something students need.

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Thanks so much!

So since year 10 I’ve been really into social sciences and humanities: specifically sociology and English. But I’m worried that a degree in them will leave me unemployed and financially desolate.

I know people are against social sciences but I have so many careers or paths in mind I could do with a sociology degree. Things like primary school teaching, prison education, uni lecturer, civil service job or fast stream, police, probation officer, detective, ministry of justice, law conversion course, social work/care, gov research, the list goes on. But most of those careers take years to advance and make a salary above 30k ish so the investment would be a bit of a fail. I’d be the first out of my siblings and cousins to get a degree so I don’t want to waste the opportunity.

English only leads to research or teaching jobs and I’m not sure I want to teach gcse English for the rest of my life. Plus apparently most things you study are easily accessible online.

I’m shit at maths and science so stuff like medicine, physics, maths, accounting, economics, biomed etc are an absolute definitive no as careers or good paying jobs. I’ve wanted to be a paramedic as a kid but only got a 5-5 in gcse science and I do humanity/social science a levels.

I’ve seen the occasional posts in other sixth form pages or whatever about people studying niche degrees or things like history or modern art or classics but they get shut down so fast. What do you think I should do, honestly? Take a gap year and find a more sensible thing to study? Study something like law that I’m not interested in at all due to its good prospects and great eventual pay? Just find an apprentice that’ll make me happy? Join the army or the police instead of education?

Got no clue, would love the input and perspective from current uni students!

I am expecting BBCD at end of my A levels. Can I get into mechanical engineering with these grades. If yes then which universities can accept me with these grades.

So I am a bit stupid. I thought my in school UCAS deadline was the 15th but its actually the 5th and I can't pick anymore courses. My personal statement so far is very entomology based and so i was thinking of adding some plant sciences and toxicology stuff but they both need biology a level which I didnt do. I'm already applying to an entomology course and got lucky that it doesn't require biology but I can't think of anything else I'd be interested in which doesn't need biology. Before choosing entomology i was deciding between engineering and architecture (just because i was good at that sort of thing),and AMES (interested in languages and currently self studying) so I can't really pull from my other interests because the personal statement would be insanely varied and not make sense. Also I don't want to apply to just one course. Although I know I can get the required grades I'm not sure if they'll like me from reading my ps. Any help PLEASE I BEG 🙏

Hi, I actualy made a post complaining about my flatmates and cleanliness, it escalated. So apparently I make my personality all about my disability. In reality I've mostly just been complaining about my gp not giving me pescribed pain medication, and complaining about the difficulty associated with trying to get anything done. I feel like this crossed a line. She also rolled her eyes when I said my condition is a disability, like sorry, is it such an inconvenience to you? And apparently I use it as an excuse, which I absolutely don't. The max I say is that I'll leave my pots for the morning, which I will always clean promptly, but pots have been sitting there for 3 days so yeah I'm definetely the issue. I also had to explain to her why I didn't want her opinion about my health or her mansplaining about it either, aparently makes me rude. Oh and also she had an issue with me saying it's harder to do any work with a disability, so I had to explain some of the issues associated with trying to sit and work whilst in pain. After 3 minutes of informing her aparently she's an expert on it lol and thinks she knows better than me who has had to live with this condition for 7 years.

I got an offer for User Experience Engineering MSc at City, University of London. The main professor seems to be Nick Hine, and as I understand it he taught on a Master's with the same name at Goldsmith until recently.

Would be great to hear how people found the quality teaching and market-relevancy of the content!?

Im applying to St. John’s college for mathematics. Anyone know how the people there are?? Also, im really into swimming, is the college into those types of sports or even track running?

Is it just me or have coffees gotten to a ridiculously high price? As a student, I do enjoy an oat milk cappuccino from a cafe here and there, but sometimes I wonder whether I'm really willing to spend that much. Just me?

I've been at university for about two months now, and not made a single proper friend. When I first started I was lucky that I had a very social flat, but even when I thought I was making friends with them and other people, it never developed further no matter how hard I tried. I knew I would struggle, I have autism so I knew it wouldn't be the easiest, but I feel like I've done everything right with no results. I spoke to people randomly at the bus stop or just whenever I saw them around halls, I've tried talking to people in seminars and lectures but they're not the most social, and I've joined societies, even though admittedly I can't go to many meets due to work.

It feels though like it's not getting anywhere, and everyone around me has already made friends, to the point they're viewing houses. It took me a whole year at college to make a single proper friend, and I just feel like such an outlier. Everyone says everyone's in the same boat, but everyone around me already seems to have made friends, and I really don't know where to go from here.

I’m in third year and I despise coding, i hate it so much.

What can I do with my degree now? Can I even get a related job?

Hello everyone,

This seems like a helpful place to ask this question.

I am pursuing a MSc in Finance, i have offers from both Newcastle University and Uni of York.

Newcastle is a great city and the program looks really in depth, very broad and challenging. Whereas York seems like a much more streamlined course which is less broad and is also a beautiful city and I'm from Yorkshire so closer to home.

I'm really struggling with this decision and hope you guys have more information on which uni is better in terms of an overall perspective and also how prestigious they are to employers.

Thanks.

i live in a townhouse with possibly some of the worst flatmates ever. i’m looking to find a way to move out, but in the meantime i need some advice. every couple weeks, the communal kitchen gets inspected by a member of staff and gets a rating. every time they’ve come in, we’ve gotten a strike for having a messy kitchen. it’s horrible down there. trash is everywhere, the floors are disgusting, there’s broken glass laying around, no one washes their dishes or puts them in the sink, there’s dried food sticking to all of the surfaces and the oven. it’s just gross. i stopped using the kitchen all together because i just can’t deal with the state of it, along with the guys asking me out and making me feel uncomfortable when im in there. a large group of them party almost every night in there, and never clean up after themselves. if we don’t keep it clean, we get charged an £80 fine each time. the first time we got a strike, me and the one other girl living in the townhouse were told we had to clean it because we hadn’t cleaned it yet (neither had they but whatever). it’s true that we hadn’t cleaned it, but it’s because we rarely use it due to the state of it and when we have used it we clean up after ourselves. i tried to explain this, but they just said that if we don’t that we’re all getting fined. so i ended up cleaning it since i can’t really afford to lose £80 for no reason. we’ve since gotten another strike, and now we’re on our last one but i don’t want to have to be the one to clean it again when i didn’t make any of the mess and i don’t use the kitchen. they don’t seem to be receptive to the idea of cleaning it though, and every time we clean it it’s back to it’s original state the next day. has anyone else dealt with this, and what did you do? do i just have to keep cleaning up after them?

So curious on this the MC and SC firms pay more on average from what I've seen than most IB roles but they're less elitist. They recruit from a far larger pool of universities and are less restrictive on target and non target etc. Like if you get a first from Exeter or York etc you've got a decent shot and your uni will not hold you back massively but to get into IB from these unis all else being equal is much much harder

(advice needed) I’m a first year international student and before moving to uni I knew no one here, so far I have a few friends but I’m mostly close with my flatmates, we’ve gone out a few times but their actions don’t make me feel like I can trust them, for example we went out once and we all wanted to get drunk and have fun so before heading out we said we’d look out and take care of each other like friends do but at one point we got split up and it was just me and this other flatmate, turns out the rest of the group went home without telling us which left me and the other one confused and looking for them for ages in the club. I do realise that there was no signal so if they couldn’t find us there was no way of reaching out but back at home if you went out with a group of people that specifically said that they’d look out for each other then you would not leave them there unless it was a really special case where then you would at least let one person that was staying at the club/party/whatever know. plus whenever we go out I’m constantly hyper aware of my surroundings and don’t let myself drink too much, so end up not having fun because I feel like I’m on my own and can’t trust anyone. this is a bit of a rant but I guess im just wondering if anyone’s got advice?

Does anyone feel alone at university eventhough they have "friends"? I don't have social anxiety or anything, I have "friends" or more like people to hang out occasionally with but I just feel so alone.

My uni sends me an invoice each year to pay for tuition fees and a deadline in order to do so. I intend to take out an sfe loan as I normally do, and a lot of the time this ends up being past the deadline and I have no issues. I do this because they say that you start getting charged interest as soon as you take out the loan, and am aware that you can technically take it out 9 months after starting semester 1, so I delay a little bit. My question is, would my uni kick me out if I keep missing their deadline, even if it is still prior to the 9 months? Is there a reason why they request it in October/November time?

My student visa was recently rejected, and I've submitted an Administrative Review (AR) because UKVI didn’t recognize my prepaid tuition payment and claimed there was a shortfall of funds. I was so looking forward to starting university, and I had no idea things would turn out this way right after high school. UKVI’s errors and misreadings just seem to pile up in my case.

I’m considering deferring my offer for the BSc Management program to the January intake if possible, but I’m not sure if undergraduate courses even have January intakes. I’m preparing a letter to my university to include all of this – any advice on how to approach it or what to include?"

I made a late application which has only just had my details and evidence confirmed 1-2 weeks ago, i call student finance to ask why it hasn’t been processed yet and the automated message tells me that the university hasn’t confirmed that i’m enrolled. I go on to call the university’s student finance team who tell me that they can’t see that i have applied for student finance because i haven’t yet received an entitlement letter, and once i am sent this, then everything can be confirmed on the university’s behalf. I decided to talk to an online virtual assistant for student finance since it was quicker than calling, who then told me that they cannot send me my entitlement letter until the university confirms that i am enrolled on my course, and that they have already sent my university an email regarding this.

What can i do? Has anyone else also struggled with this issue? Both people are telling me to do completely the opposite thing and i’m getting worried because the university shuts down my account this month if i do not get my student finance approved…

I'm in year 12 and I want to get into the game industry. The only problem is that I didn't pick comp science or maths for my A levels. I couldn't pick Comp for my GCSEs because I had another subject on top of it. in my schedule. Is there any degree that I can do without Computer Science and Maths that will get me in the industry? I do Music, Law and Biology (if this is useful) and I got an 8 in Maths at GCSEs but I doubt it matters. I was always thinking getting into music, but not many developers look for that.

Hi, I’ve just submitted my application to ucas and was wondering when will I get offers? Google was telling me by the end of March is that true?

Hi,

In a couple weeks I have an exam online for 1 hour but the lecturer hasn’t said much about if it’s open book. Has anyone has an online exam which has required them to have their camera on so they can’t look at notes?

Thanks

Hi, looking for some advice or something on behalf of a friend. Her younger brother has moved to uni first year, he's been evasive about it all and not really included family in the process.

Turns out SF have still not paid his fees or loan for accommodation. They are trying to find out why but all he keeps saying is he's called them and can't email them and they keep giving him a further date at which point they'll respond.

Do you know of any reasons why this might happen?

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Most of this stuff just goes over my head and makes 0 sense and I have an assignment on it due in 3 weeks but I literally don't know any of what the assignment is saying so I'm gonna teach myself what im supposed to know within the next 2 weeks

The only issue is my brain basically dosent input information it reads that often or at least not with learning

So how can I most effectively teach myself computing math in 2 weeks? For context I got an A in core maths so I'm not entirely stupid this just feels like an entirely different subject

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