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Postgraduate Reviews of Courses at Lancaster University

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Lancaster University is well appointed. The campus has a nice feel to it, and though it isn’t too far from town, it is a nice break. Campus is surrounded by fields - a nice break if you cycle in! The facilities are decent. The library is not particularly well stocked for postgraduate level, but the library team are very fast on new book requests - if you request something available online, it will be there within 24 hours. The library building has lots of different spaces to study in to help you feel productive. There are lots of great clubs on campus and everyone is buzzing to get back into the swing of things after 2 years of lockdown

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History MA

LANCASTER UNIVERSITY

Mark - November 2021

I had a good time at university, meeting new people and experiencing new ways of studying.

Largely this was simply meeting other students, for which limited space and activities via which to do this were offered. I simply had to talk to students outside of lectures, or over group chats.

This year was a heavy financial burden. We were told to work for 30 hours or more per week on our MAs. If I had followed this advice strictly, I'd have had no time for work, and financial support offered by student loans and by the university is not nearly enough to cover the difference.

Parking at the university was expensive. £2 for 2 hours, but lectures were 2 hours long so we had to pay for all day, for either £3, including a long walk with our laptops and books, or £5 if you decided it would be more sociable to not be sweaty and smelly by the time you got to the lecture hall. Student parking should be subsidised from the exorbitant fees we paid.

There are parking permits offered for a significant discount - if you parked every day, all year. We had no idea if we were going to be on campus in any new month due to Covid changes. This was not Lancaster's fault, but again, we were not offered sufficient alternative.

I'm also still very bitter about having been charged £15 for the privilege of being a 'member' of the graduate college. A membership I had no choice in, and was simply charged for being a post-graduate student. This was supposed to help pay for upkeep and events. There were no events until the end of year party, which tickets were individually charged for. read full review