It is located near the British Museum which of big interest to me. The stuff are very polite and supportive , also showing a great empathy to students with different issues. Bereavement and illness in my case. They possess great academic skills and knowledge helping me along my academic progress and always available.
It's the best place to be, also the facilities are top and the virtual learning and teaching environment is always updated and useful.
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The teaching and research at Birkbeck is truly excellent! I love all the lectures and tutorials, they're so interesting and I found that any questions I had were kindly and supportively answered, I always got a quick response via email too. The HyFlex format is incredibly helpful for those days you can't make it in person, and it's very well organised. They have a great career service where advisers can talk to you about career plans, and there's an excellent exploratory online service for more clearly defining you career goals, checking your CV, interview practice and more. In terms of academics and career support Birkbeck delivers really well.
The campus itself is nice, being in the centre of London is a great plus, easy access to everything. The library is incredible, lots of quiet and comfy spaces to study, and you can have about 20 books out a time no problem.
The only downside is there's not much of a student community/life here, not as much as at other universities, being an evening university with a more mature student body. There's things going on but you have to actually be active about it and check the email newsletter, put things on your calendar etc. as it doesn't have that buzzing university feel where there's always something going on. The student union is great though and there's lots of opportunities to get involved. The facilities and campus look could be improved.
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