University of Derby

"Overall a really good university. 80% of the history professors were excellent as both professors and had strong teaching skills. Within 3 semesters I was able to transform my E and D grades to B and C grades. They were very committed to teaching and development, they are also good at handing assignments back quickly with constructive feedback so that you can improve quickly. The campus is small, clean, and pleasant. Good support for students with disabilities. The accommodation was OK, but no soundproofing between rooms, and a lack of discipline over the noise. Career advice could have been a lot better and more opportunities for humanities students need to be developed."

"My daughter went to the University and had a wonderful experience there while undertaking her degree in film. I met some of the teachers during an event and those I met were very nice. The site is well laid out. My daughter said she thoroughly enjoyed the years at the Uni and would highly recommend others to go there."

"Great campus, social space accommodation, with very friendly staff and students. Plenty of shuttle busses around the city."

"I was at the Uni to make enquiry as phone calls were not helpful. Kate at reception was very kind in her response. I already felt reassured by the way she attended to me and also offered to help. Thank you so much Kate!"

"Ok, completely honest review time. I'm currently a 40 year old student completing a BSc honnors degree in forensic science with psychology, I also completed a foundation year before starting my degree. The university as a whole is in the Guardian's top 30 UK universities and the top 100 universities in Europe with many courses having near 100% student satisfaction ratings. As a whole the Kedleston road (main) campus is actually pretty good, not as large as you'd imagine, but quite nice. There's a union shop selling snacks, drinks, and University of Derby branded clothing, a bookshop, a union cafe called Blends(decent, pretty cheap coffee to go), a union coffee shop (also Blends) that serves food, coffee to drink in, soft drinks, and a limited selection of alcoholic drinks in bottles, a university of derby cafeteria (street food and traditional), Subway sandwichs, Papa John's pizza and a Starbucks. The library is exceptional with enormous financial support. Books, Journals, articles, magazines and PCs, laptops and tablets for hire (free) intersite books are available (if the book is at a different campus they'll get it for you). There's also wellbeing support, financial services and careers advice/employment services. The tutors are generally all pretty good with some being exceptional; however, some things are poor to the point of being a hindrance. The whole UDO app and Blackboard app is unreliable especially Turnitin (the main way you submit work), there's a lack of information regarding turnitin and how it works (regardless of operating system, Windows, Apple, Google) you need Google Chrome to enable submissions, ironically dispite needing Google Chrome, Chromebooks are pretty much unsupported. Some assignments can take months to get back, this means you're doing multiple without any feedback as to how to improve; however, most are back within 3 weeks. Nevertheless there's a general air of disorganization that really needs addressing. Generally it's a good university but with definite room for improvement. Although I very much doubt you'll be disappointed if you do attend, in fact I'm sure you'll love it, dispite it's faults it's a great place to be. You cannot park at the university if you're a student unless you meet certain criteria and have a pass, unfortunately the buses have also been reduced and some classes don't finish until 8pm."