Manchester Metropolitan University

The university is a joke. I am a current student and cannot wait to rid my life of this useless organisation. There is little to no reply when trying to communicate with staff, many show very little care about student wellbeing and the university is completely confusing in the way it projects itself and its values. I cannot wait to leave. I know many people from previous years who have dropped out because the uni is that bad and gives no help whatsoever. Do not be fooled by the empty promises they may advertise. They are lying to your face. Stay well clear.

What ever you do, do not study Interior Design at MMU/Manchester School of Arts! Honestly I regret going there so much! Me and 70% of my previous student peers are jobless or working in a job that is not our degree the rest got lucky and got training jobs. Till date we all talk about how we regret going to MMU. They teach you software (Vectorworks) which no one in the industry knows, very bad software can’t even edit the materials or even put realistic materials. Very weak software! Also they tell you to buy Mac book which is crazy! If you are an Interior designer or Architect you know that Mac books can’t handle Interior and Architectural softwares. I and my peers learnt this the hard way. They don't teach AutoCad and Sketchup even though we all asked for them to teach us they laughed in our face and said why and we explained that when we are searching the Job market they are all asking for those softwares, Revit and no one uses Vectorworks. MMU steal your money and teach you nothing. Also you teach yourself everything and you don’t know if you are going in the right track or not, you are always lost. Trust me go Salford I know so many amazing Interior designers and Architects! Also 99% of lectures are useless most the time they will put a video up and tell you to watch it, they don’t teach anything they just expect you to know everything which is very useless because what is the point of going to University to learn? They always say you will learn from industry, again whats the point of going to University.

Overall satisfaction ★★★☆☆After my yearlong MSc Sport and Exercise Sport Psychology pathway course, I’m overall satisfied what I paid for. However, there were things that I thought the unversity could have improved.The content of the course ★★★★☆The modules covered a wide range of subjects in sport psychology from professional skills as a practitioner to neuropsychology in sports. The course consisted of 3 semesters. In the first and second semesters, we had normally three days on-campus classes in a week. The main facilities we used were Institute of Sport and Platt Lane. I wish we had more classes as I felt I could have learned better from the classroom, but this was part of a postgraduate course. It was quite independent learning experience. The exam style varied depending on the modules from self-recording podcast style discussion to open-book test. Since the tutors were often leading researchers in their areas, it was intriguing to talking with them. The focus of module was mostly on the basic level of knowledge in sport psychology. I had been out of education for 6 years, plus my undergraduate was psychology and sociology. Therefore, I found that the structure of course was very helpful for someone like me who was relatively new to the domain. However, this didn’t seem to apply for those who studied sport psychology in their undergraduate degree. In addition, they wouldn't provide working opportunities either.Quality of the staff ★★★☆☆As mentioned above, the tutors were often leading researchers in their areas. Thus, it was a quite good opportunity to talk with them. Some of the tutors were more of a practitoner. Thanks to my supervisor, I could recruit the participants for my dissertation. Response from staff were generally ok, but sometimes it's not as smooth as people would expect, especially during the semester 3 as most of the staff were on annual leaves. The clarification of assignments frequently caused misunderstandings from students as tutors were using the unit handbook from a year before without changing the date but showing the current year protocol on the slide at a classroom. It was somewhat disappointing that most of the staff were not familiar with the procedure that the students could take after graduation to be a licensed sport psychologist. This happens because they didn’t have to take the career path that we must take when they were students. For example, asking about Stage 2 in QSEP from BPS to staff member often ended up with fruitless conversations.Student life ★★☆☆☆I was living in a flat with my wife outside of the student area, so it was a bit of a different experience from the rest of the peers in my course. Regardless, I’ve heard that a student’s accommodation was too noisy to sleep, and the student area is dangerous and dodgy for especially female students. A MMU student was stabbed to death in the beginning of a year around Fallowfield. Manchester as a city, it can be fun and there are a lot of things to do. I frequently went to a pub, karaoke, bowling, go-carting, and playing and watching football with my mates. If you prefer nature, there are national trust facilities and big parks around Manchester and the transportation to there is normally quite convenient, not reliable though. I joined Men’s football team. I wish I could play more as my course schedule overlapped the game day (every Wednesday). They put classes on the day which hindered students to join sports clubs even though the course is sport and exercise related. This is simply because the tutors were unavailable other days in a week as they teach undergraduate as well as they don’t want to work on Friday.Facility ★★★☆☆Institute of sport is a great building. It’s new and has cutting-edge facilities to use for research. I wish there was a kiosk or shop in the building. Library was a quite good place to use. However, the exam period for undergraduate was nightmare. There were no spaces in the whole 5-level-library!! Platt Lane used to be the Manchester City academy ground so the equippments were decent.

Textbook lecturers with no real experience of architecture or design. Most of the staff have given up on architecture and look forward to their pay check each month at the expense of the students. Lecturers are graduates moving straight into academic roles with no architectural experience. Students don’t benefit from industry peers and support rather learn in a linear old fashioned way. Lecturers, deans and staff have outdated knowledge and a complete lack of imagination. The university looks great with cutting edge technology and learning environment but the course content is very poor and teaching standards are below par. Awarded the queens prize in 2019 MMU has become complacent and is lacking innovation. It should try and follow the example set by the University of Manchester.

I saw a lot of homeless people while I was traveling.) But in general not bad /=

Poor management every time it gets busy and they are offering course on management. They could not even handle students of a intake and they teach students how to manage a show of 5k people. If you call them they will say they do not know every time. NO strategy or planning in university itself but you will find courses on this.

This has been by far the worst service I have ever received by anyone, ever. I completed my LPC and LLM here, somehow. To start with, it took them until the 7th week of the course to actually enrol me on the course, despite me chasing them daily. I had an exam on the 8th week.Due to Covid restrictions, MMU rescheduled 3 separate exam periods into one, because they claimed that they couldn't get the permission from the SRA to allow students to sit exams from home. Obviously, I failed an exam because we had so many cramped exams daily on material some of which we had studied 5+ months prior. The very next exam period, we sat exams from home. I later sat the resit and passed (in fact got a first, which was capped at 50% since it was a resit). However, when I received my grades report, it appeared as if I hadn't sat the resit and it still showed as a fail. I should add, that the person who signed off my grades report was the person who marked my paper. I chased this for weeks and it took over a month to rectify.Missed workshops and lectures due to numerous strikes that weren't refunded, countless time wasted by online lecturers showing off their cat for up to 10 minutes every single workshop, broken upload links for your dissertation, endless bureaucracy when you are trying to rectify the most trivial issues which should not have occurred in the first place. These are all things which you may expect, should you choose to study at this uni.Months after I finished my LPC and LLM I was contacted by MMU again, informing me that I still owed them around £1,500 because they had initially undercharged me due to an accounting error. I did the math and their request added up, so I set up a repayment plan. Of course, the approach MMU took was extremely aggressive and were very quick to tell me that if I don't pay what I owe them, I will not receive my degree.This brings us to today. I attempted to book my graduation gown from Ede & Ravenscroft, however the order just will not go through. I contacted Ede & Ravenscroft and I was told that I am simply too late and since I only have 18 days left to the graduation, there just simply isn't enough time for them to provide the gown. On their website it does say that I should book the gown 21 or more days before the graduation. The issue is that I only received the booking confirmation for the graduation ceremony 20 days before the ceremony (almost a month after I booked it). So as it stands, I don't have a gown for my ceremony.If you are going to put yourself a few tens of thousands of pounds in debt to study somewhere, I would not recommend this place.

Lots of Indians tells that I'm living in India not the UK. And also no accommodation availability in all of Manchester

Very large University so many people in and around plenty friendly staff

The University is among the UK's leading Universities for study and research. It has a large campus with outstanding facilities providing students with high-quality courses and a great environment to improve their skills and capabilities. Additionally, there is great academic and personal support from lecturers and tutors. Recently, The Manchester Metropolitan University has been awarded a Queen's Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education. In 2022, the University's world-class new Institute of Sport which is currently under construction will also be ready. Manchester Metropolitan University is among the best European Universities.